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2002-06-24 Thread fylate

Re: [newbie-it] ragionevole proposta

2002-06-24 Thread Andrea Celli
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:41:29 -0400 gheblond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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!!!

[newbie-it] fonts

2002-06-24 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Salve ragazzi, Dunque, ho qualche problemino con Open Office e i fonts... OO sembra non riconoscere i fonts che ho installato sotto kde. In altre parole i programmi che girano in kde e che appartengono strettamente in qualche modo a questo ambiente grafico, tipo kword, riconoscono tutti i

Re: [newbie-it] window maker

2002-06-24 Thread Emiliano La Licata
At 19.31 24/06/2002 +0200, you wrote: Ti rispondo, ma prendi ciĆ² che dico con molta allegria, non sono molto bravo con linux Ho avuto lo stesso problema tempo fa, non ricordo con precisione cosa ho fatto per risolverlo; ci devono essere due comandi da shell che sono wmaker e wmaker.instr,

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

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 20:36, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:23, Ralph Slooten wrote: 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

[newbie] Saving time to hardware clock: date --set

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Adams
I have my hardware clock running at GMT (UTC) and my software clock loading as local. Was told in the manual that this is the more correct method for *NIX systems. I am now confusing myself about resetting the hardware clock from the CL. date --set should do it. But it doesn't seem too

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-24 Thread J or M Montgomery
Ralph Slooten wrote: /home/user/.mozilla/profile_name/*.slt/mail or thereabouts Thanks Ralph and all the others who replied. Hidden files indeed! I did know that at one time. It is a competition between my left knee and my memory to see which will be first to crash :-) John Want to

Re: [newbie] sound card advice

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Adams
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:48, Scott wrote: 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

[newbie] SANE and Acer scanner

2002-06-24 Thread Michael Adams
Thought i was one step closer this time. Noticed the icon in Mandrake Control Center for scanner. Told it that i had an Acer and it found and supposedly installed / configured the Prisa Acer 620u driver. yet when i click on the KDE icon (Xsane_/dev/usb/scanner0) it is still not found. The

Re: [newbie] Japanese Input

2002-06-24 Thread pascal
g2 wrote 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! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language.

Re: [newbie] Japanese Input

2002-06-24 Thread pascal
g2 wrote 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! I installed Japanese a few times (since 8.0), but each time, I choosed japanese as the install language.

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2002-06-24 Thread Morten Myrvold
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Re: [newbie] CyrixInstead

2002-06-24 Thread poogle
On Sunday 23 June 2002 17:49 pm, Stormjumper wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] GNOME

2002-06-24 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 16:39:15 -0400 daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: to each his own man, but are you serious? Enlightenment is every bit the resource hog that Gnome and KDE are Have you ever run e as a stand-alone wm? Both cpu and memory usage average less than 01.0%. If that is hoggish

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

2002-06-24 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Monday 24 June 2002 02:17 am, Frank McKenna wrote: 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. ifup eth0 -- Gerald Waugh

[newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Nick Andriash
I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about having enough RAM. I

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29 pm, Nick Andriash wrote: I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and

Re: [newbie] mozilla files

2002-06-24 Thread Jure Repinc
John Richard Smith wrote: All 500 plus emails are manually added ones in my mozilla addressbook.,not from the daily automatically added addressbook. But I suspect charles is right , mozilla's putting mine else where cause I added them as one big seperate addressbook under a single

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: No need to be frightened. Its fun Most installs are incident free. If you have an issue just drop us a

[newbie] Network

2002-06-24 Thread Jendos
How can I configure my local network under 8.2? My IP is 192.186.20.64 Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 Domain: inpred Thank! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Network

2002-06-24 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: How can I configure my local network under 8.2? My IP is 192.186.20.64 Windows DNS server's IP: 192.186.20.125 Windows post server's IP: 192.186.20.2 Domain: inpred Thank! Jendos, you can do a couple of different ways. 1) use Mandrake Control

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

2002-06-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 23:50, Steve Jeppesen wrote: Good evening everybody, I have a simple question I think... Is it possible to have the mouse speed set in a startup script of some kind? When ever I log into a window manager, I always have to set my mouse speed using xset m 9 1 I

Re: [newbie] Sound card Base PCI A3D

2002-06-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 07:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Network

2002-06-24 Thread Miark
This is the one and only thing that I every use linuxconf for because it make this task plumb easy. Miark daRcmaTTeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Jendos wrote: How can I configure my local network under 8.2? My IP is 192.186.20.64 Windows DNS server's IP:

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:46 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 12:29, Nick Andriash wrote: I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2

[newbie] reboot of amd notebook

2002-06-24 Thread Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram
Hi, I have a Sony vaio (Athlon 1G) with Mandrake 8.2. My problem is that reboot from linux does not work. I tried shutdown -r now and reboot using lilo (the option in the kdm gui). When I use shutdown -r now, the laptop displays Sony and it stops there (I can see the harddisk light

Re: [newbie] reboot of amd notebook

2002-06-24 Thread mike
Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram wrote: Hi, I have a Sony vaio (Athlon 1G) with Mandrake 8.2. My problem is that reboot from linux does not work. I tried shutdown -r now and reboot using lilo (the option in the kdm gui). When I use shutdown -r now, the laptop displays Sony and it stops

[newbie] Internal Modems

2002-06-24 Thread poogle
I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears to be 100% hardware. Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the handshake started than it drops the connection with

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

2002-06-24 Thread darklord
On Sunday 23 June 2002 06:38 pm, you wrote: 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.

[newbie] [ppc 9500] kernel panic

2002-06-24 Thread Yvon Thoraval
i got to the xconfig which hangs up at the end. This let me choose xinerama, detect successfully the two video cards but let me select only one screen. i've force to reboot, getting a kernel panic when eth0 up, a second reboot under run level 1 but get another kernel panic when typing the root

Re: [newbie] Missing posts

2002-06-24 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 22:23, Ralph Slooten wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
Nick Andriash wrote: I have been humming and hawing about installing Mandrake 8.2 for some time now, but perhaps you fine people can help allay my fears: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-24 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 jumper settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP runnin at 12.5x100, rather than 12.5x133 -- Tom

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

2002-06-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 05:52, mike cola wrote: now that was all nice till you got to the PS and then fronted your opinion exactly the same way you told others not to (or not to listen to).. or did i misinterpret? linux: (the community as a public vocal group) is (from what i have

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

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
et wrote: you know Jon, you where in my filters, and I took you off last week when I saw a reply to this post mentioning you were spam filtered. Really interesting (maybe fascinating would be as proper, especially for the folks down under to comprehend) to see you back. Welcome again,

Re: [newbie] Internal Modems

2002-06-24 Thread s
On Monday 24 June 2002 12:43 pm, poogle wrote: I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears to be 100% hardware. Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the

Re: [newbie] Internal Modems

2002-06-24 Thread Bill Spatz
On Monday 24 June 2002 11:43, you wrote: I'm trying to connect to the internet on a PC with an ISA modem card, it has a Rockwell chipset (RCVDL56ACFSVD) which I googled on and it appears to be 100% hardware. Kppp is set up exactly as my own PC, it dial, connects but barely has the handshake

[newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread John Michael Drouhard
Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound Server under KDE Control Center. When I try to force it to use

[newbie] Spooky! Computer science or voodoo?

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
OK mutter and grumble CyberMAX case, Jetway 601CF C3-900 256M RAM, Samsung 8XDVD 40G Maxtor, vanilla floppy. Installed with many many errors. CD DRIVE constantly went off line or errored out on simple requests I decided the CD drive was bad and pulled it, putting in a NEC DVD which worked

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

2002-06-24 Thread Terry Sheltra
Abiword is not installed on my machine, and switching anti-aliased fonts in KDE has no effect. I wish NeTraverse had a phone # to call for tech support. They haven't answered me back in almost a week now. grrr.. Thanks to all who are trying to help me. Terry On Sun, 2002-06-23 at

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound Server under KDE Control Center.

Re: [newbie] A Few Questions Before I Take The Plunge

2002-06-24 Thread Warren Post
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 05:29, Nick Andriash wrote: 1) I will be purchasing a new Box to install 8.2 on, and most likely will be a P III 1.3Ghz with a 40 GB HDD, CDRW, etc., but am worried about having enough RAM. I see there are already discussions on GNOME, KDE and Enlightenment... which I

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-24 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 24 June 2002 03:57 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 jumper settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP

[newbie] Japanese Input

2002-06-24 Thread g2
Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can be used for? i tried it on advnace

[newbie] external USB Logitech HD cant mount

2002-06-24 Thread g2
hi, im having problems mounting my Logitech HD connected thru USB 1.1. i already installed USBview and USBmodule RPMs on my Mandrake Linux 8.2 and it was detected successfully. the problem is, i cant mount it. there is no /dev/sda file only /dev/usb/ but its not a valid mounting file. I run,

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-24 Thread Terence J. Golightly
Tom, On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 20:25, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 03:57 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:22, John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting in Sound

[newbie] ImageMagick: trying to compile ImageMagick

2002-06-24 Thread Patrik Marxer
Hi, I am having a problem compiling ImageMagick. When I autoconf -- ./configure it then I get: [root@merlin ImageMagick-5.4.6]# ./configure configuring ImageMagick 5.4.6 checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu checking target system

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread John Michael Drouhard
On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have tried changing the setting

[newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1)

2002-06-24 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
I promised this a while back and got sidetracked by RL. ;) So here it is. This is what it takes to record broadcasts off the net in ogg format. Using Sox (which is the best sound util ever made) you can also record just about anything that your soundcard puts out; VERBATIM. Sox is a

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:33 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread John Michael Drouhard
On Monday 24 June 2002 20:10, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 12:22, John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread Nick Andriash
Hello John Michael Drouhard, In Reference to your Posting on Monday, June 24 2002 at 07:17 PM PDT, I have tried adding the PCI option to the rc.sysinit file, and I rebooted. The problem was that It still gave me the dsp error, and the sound still did not work. I appreciate your help, and

Re: [newbie] Japanese Input

2002-06-24 Thread pascal
On Tue, 25 June 2002, g2 wrote Hi, its me again. i successfully installed kinput2 and freewin RPM on my Linux Mandrake 8.2 as well as the Japanese fonts, but shift+space and ctrl+/ is still not working. how can i input hiragana, katakana and kanji? what applications do they usually can

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread John Michael Drouhard
I am sorry Nick, I was in a rush to send the email, I forget to clip my response. I responded to a long email, but forgot to clip it. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. John Michael Drouhard I don't have an answer for you... I'm just getting ready to try Linux, but I find reading your postings

Re: [newbie]OT- Walmart, kisses and Mandrake

2002-06-24 Thread Damian G
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002 07:45:06 -0700 shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 24 June 2002 07:02 am, Lyvim Xaphir did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Well, it is only for the Wal-mart online store at this time. They are already

[newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread ben harker
hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
John Michael Drouhard wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have

[newbie] Spooky! Computer science or voodoo?

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
OK mutter and grumble CyberMAX case, Jetway 601CF C3-900 256M RAM, Samsung 8XDVD 40G Maxtor, vanilla floppy. Installed with many many errors. CD DRIVE constantly went off line or errored out on simple requests I decided the CD drive was bad and pulled it, putting in a NEC DVD which worked

Re: [newbie] compact flash card usb reader

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:59 pm, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00

Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!

2002-06-24 Thread ben harker
im using Mandrake 8.0 On Monday, June 24, 2002 at 10:49:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 09:54 pm, you wrote: hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128

Re: [newbie] MPlayer error

2002-06-24 Thread Damian G
On Fri, 21 Jun 2002 23:48:11 -0300 Damian G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 07:35:19 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

[newbie] what to do when cursor disappears?

2002-06-24 Thread dfox
Here's an odd one that I can't remember how to fix. I have an old friend who's running an older Linux system (slackware). He's on a slower system, so just useds consoles (no X) and twice when the power went out, the box came back fine, except there's no cursor visible. I thought maybe 'stty

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp error

2002-06-24 Thread civileme
John Michael Drouhard wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 18:52, you wrote: John Michael Drouhard wrote: Hi all! I have an aureal vortex 2 soundcard, and have installed the drivers provided at sourceforge.net. I have tried many times to get sound out of computer, but it just won't happen. I have

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org 1.0

2002-06-24 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: As Shane pointed out the RPMs we could send you are for Mandrake 8.2 so there is not much point sending it to you. However if you go to http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ they can send you the latest Openoffice (I imagine it will be a .tgz file) for