Re: [newbie] No Sound (again)

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
No Felipe it is not the driver. The driver is not used for normal CD playing. It is purely hardware. Nor is it true to say that because it works in Windows that your cable is OK. Your problem is probably either a/ Your mixer is turned down. Check Kmenu>Multimedia>Sound>Sound mixer set the setti

Re: [newbie] Just replaced video card and and CMOS battery

2002-07-07 Thread Frank McKenna
Thanks Civileme, that did the trick Frank McKenna You don't have to like it you just have to do it but it is sure fun to win True Strength lies in Gentleness Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] DEC Alpha Server

2002-07-07 Thread Inhabitantofzion
Cheers That looks interesting and may well help. I'll have a good look at it and see if I can sort it. Shame to have a decent server like the DEC Alpha 3kr and not run a _proper_ OS on it! J At 19:07 07/07/2002 +0200, you wrote: >On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:03:17 +0100 >Inhabitantofzion <[EMAI

[newbie]System hangs while shutting down ..

2002-07-07 Thread vangala sarma
Hi, I have Linux Mandrake 8.1 installed on my system. Whenever I try to shut it down, the system hangs with the message : "Shutting down interface eth0 " Can anyone please tell me what I can do to rectify this problem. I will have to reboot the system whenever this happens. What is the problem

Re: [newbie] Controling monitor power management

2002-07-07 Thread Miark
You'll probably find it's a permanent change. Miark > xset does the trick, thanks! Now what do I do to execute the xset > command of my preference on every login? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Just replaced video card and and CMOS battery

2002-07-07 Thread civileme
Frank McKenna wrote: >Hi All, > >Using Mandrake 8.1 Sorry for the long post > >I just replaced my CMOS battery and, as expected, received a CMOS error >message. Pressed enter to return to CMOS default. > >Since I had to remove my video and sound cards to replace the battery I >thought that I wo

[newbie] Just replaced video card and and CMOS battery

2002-07-07 Thread Frank McKenna
Hi All, Using Mandrake 8.1 Sorry for the long post I just replaced my CMOS battery and, as expected, received a CMOS error message. Pressed enter to return to CMOS default. Since I had to remove my video and sound cards to replace the battery I thought that I would upgrade my video card at th

Re: [newbie] discussion board

2002-07-07 Thread rfriedman
I'm sure there would be a lot of interest in it considering that a Mandrake discussion board already exists at http://www.mandrakeuser.org Rick "Roy Murray" wrote > > Would anybody be interested in using a discussion board set up for Mandrake > and other Linux users? If there is enough inter

[newbie] RE: [newbie] Re: [newbie]  i need xf86config help !

2002-07-07 Thread Tania Morell
Thank you, downloading the nvidia driver worked. Things were still a little quirky (desktop running off screen) and I couldn't figure out what exactly was the cause (I had made so many changes while troubleshooting before) so I ended up reinstalling mandrake then reinstalling the nvidia drivers o

Fw: [newbie] discussion board

2002-07-07 Thread Roy Murray
- Original Message - From: "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roy Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 10:25 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] discussion board > Oh, well I recommend you check it out. There is a link from Mandrake's page, > I think... > > Here's the new URL a

Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups

2002-07-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 07 July 2002 07:00 pm, you wrote: > Hi all and Charles, > > Confession time here and a possible lesson for anyone else reading this > having weird problems. > > Due to my computer being in a custom made tower, I have been doing some > work on it lately and it seems I slightly dislodged t

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 6:03 am, Barry Michels wrote: > I found this tutorial ( http://www.atechsol.net/kde3.html ) and it worked. > KDE3 looks great! I've got a liquid theme with transparent menus and a > digitally created water wallpaper. I'm still going through all the areas > in Control Cent

Re: [newbie] kde 3 first time config screens

2002-07-07 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 3:17 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Saturday 06 Jul 2002 8:53 pm, John Bodden wrote: > > What is the file to edit to keep the first time config screens form > > showing up in kde3? > > http://www.pclinuxonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1797 > > You might al

Fw: [newbie] discussion board

2002-07-07 Thread Roy Murray
- Original Message - From: "Anuerin G. Diaz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roy Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2002 9:22 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] discussion board > > hi roy, > > sorry for replying direct but i cant post to the list directly so if you could > address to t

Re: [newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 01:14:41 +0200, Smiley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just installed Gnome 2.0 through Mandrake Cooker; all seems gone smooth, but > only default theme is shown... I do have gtk-themes installed, but they're not > listed in the selection box: is just a little bug or something ch

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?[very OT]

2002-07-07 Thread FemmeFatale
robin wrote: > I agree, though I'd balk at "kewl" (unless there are really people out > there who pronounce it like "mewl"). what we should be careful of, > though, is allowing the introduction of the equivalent of Microsoft's > and Netscape's "enhancements" to HTML during the early 1990s. A

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
On Sunday 07 July 2002 10:22 am, ai4a wrote: > In my Mandrake 8.2 the "export INSTALL_PATH=/boot" comes > uncommentted. No need to uncomment it. Hmmm, I've never seen a kernel-source-.mdk.rpm that had it uncommented, I've always had to remove the #. I suppose the pre- built kernel-xxx

Re: [newbie] i need xf86config help !

2002-07-07 Thread FemmeFatale
Charlie wrote: > July 7, 2002 11:50 am, Tania Morell wrote: > >>I'm trying to get x running on my new laptop. It's a Toshiba satellite >>s501 which has a gforce 440 go video chip and a 15.0" high resolution >>SXGA+ TFT screen.. >> >>If anybody has anything even remotely resembling this, I'd LO

[newbie] Re: [newbie]  i need xf86config help !

2002-07-07 Thread Nick Emans
Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >July 7, 2002 11:50 am, Tania Morell wrote: >> I'm trying to get x running on my new laptop. It's a Toshiba satellite >> s501 which has a gforce 440 go video chip and a 15.0" high resolution >> SXGA+ TFT screen.. >> >> If anybody has anything even remotely re

Re: [newbie] Windows Games - QT

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
On Sunday 07 July 2002 12:25 pm, dfox wrote: > This intrigues me, as I haven't found quicktime support yet. I went > to the mplayer site, downloaded the current tar (20020707) file, > compiled and installed it. All I can get is the audio of a .mov > file, no video. I get dia

[newbie] No Sound (again)

2002-07-07 Thread Filipe
Mdk 8.20 - motherboard with Sound and Video onboard (PCchips M590). After installation, I tried to listen to an Audio CD but have no sound. I can hear the standard sound when Linux begins but nothing from CD. The CD drive and cable are ok because I can listen CD at Win98 and from Dos. I can even

Re: [newbie] Make fails - "cpp0: No such file or directory"

2002-07-07 Thread Bill Davidson
On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 19:08:40 -0400 Ralph Dratman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since installing 8.2 a few days ago, I have tried to compile a couple > of source packages. I keep getting the following sequence: > > -- > # make > gcc -c -DSTACK_DIRE

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Filipe
Thanks Derek. I was misunderstanding it. With your suggestion I can see the tracks. I wanted to check if the drive was reading correctly the audio-cd since a have no sound. Best regards Filipe Dutra [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 22:08 7/7/2002 +0100, you wrote: It is not a problem. Audio CDs are not file

[newbie] Gnome Themes Selector

2002-07-07 Thread Smiley
I just installed Gnome 2.0 through Mandrake Cooker; all seems gone smooth, but only default theme is shown... I do have gtk-themes installed, but they're not listed in the selection box: is just a little bug or something changed, since Gnome 1.4? Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Make fails - "cpp0: No such file or directory"

2002-07-07 Thread Ralph Dratman
Since installing 8.2 a few days ago, I have tried to compile a couple of source packages. I keep getting the following sequence: -- # make gcc -c -DSTACK_DIRECTION=0 -g hello.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cpp0': No such file or directo

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: "Music Labels Plant Online Decoys,Mull Lawsuits"

2002-07-07 Thread robin
Derek Jennings wrote: >Here is the site to assuage guilt >http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php > > > I tried this site, and after wandering around deciding which artists to support (Cassandra Complex, Sheila Chandra and the Cocteau twins, if anyone's interested) and filling in my cre

Re: [newbie] recent 8.2 install system lock-ups

2002-07-07 Thread magnet
Hi all and Charles, Confession time here and a possible lesson for anyone else reading this having weird problems. Due to my computer being in a custom made tower, I have been doing some work on it lately and it seems I slightly dislodged the HDD lead from the mobo!!! It allowed booting up [just

[newbie] discussion board

2002-07-07 Thread Roy Murray
Would anybody be interested in using a discussion board set up for Mandrake and other Linux users? If there is enough interest I might set one up. Roy Murray Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread Charlie
July 7, 2002 03:56 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > > You rang? LOL > > > > It probably ain't right but it works and I'm able to boot either kernel. > > thanks much Charlie. this solves my doubt. so, using the latest > system.map seems to work for both the old and the new kernel.. > > Damian ~

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread Damian Gatabria
> You rang? LOL > > It probably ain't right but it works and I'm able to boot either kernel. thanks much Charlie. this solves my doubt. so, using the latest system.map seems to work for both the old and the new kernel.. Damian > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] rpm database

2002-07-07 Thread Charlie
July 7, 2002 08:08 am, Moshe Kaminsky wrote: > Hi, > > I tried installing some rpm packages (kde3) from the command line. It > failed on dependencies - seems that rpm thinks I have nothing installed! > I tried to run > rpm --initdb > It didn't help. When I typed > rpm -qa > It showed nothing.

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
Sorry.. The item in the konqueror pane to access is 'Services' not 'Special' derek On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 9:56 pm, Filipe wrote: > I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem (see the > file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at CD-ROM desktop > icon I rece

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread Sharrea
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 16:50, Damian G wrote: > ok, so in order to use my new kernel i've got > to rename my new System.map to something like > System.map2.4.28mine and change that link to make > it point to my file. > > now, my question is: > > how am i supposed to keep both kernels? > i've checke

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
It is not a problem. Audio CDs are not file systems. They cannot be 'mounted' like a data CD can. Clicking on the CD icon will give the message you describe. If you want to browse an audio Cd either open the CD player kscd , or else open konqueror file manager and click on the item in the left

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Erik S. Root
Try Mounting it as root in shell. That should solve the problem. Cheers! Erik At 04:56 PM 7/7/2002, you wrote: I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message:  Unable

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 July 2002 9:56 pm, Filipe wrote: > I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem > (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at > CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message: > Unable to enter fil

Re: [newbie] LISa

2002-07-07 Thread LtCdData
On Sunday 07 July 2002 5:59, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 05 Jul 2002 7:49 pm, you wrote: > > > > > > > BTW - I have poked around Webmin, but can't work out how you added LISa > > > > > > > > LtCdData helped me out with webmin... > > > > start up webmin as root... > > click on the "System" tag

Re: [newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 17:56:07 -0300 Filipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem > (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at > CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message: > Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do

[newbie] CDROM access

2002-07-07 Thread Filipe
I recently installed MDK 8.2. I can read a data CD without problem (see the file list) but when try to access an Audio CD clicking at CD-ROM desktop icon I receive the message:  Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You do not have access right to this location. How can I fix this problem ? Thanks F

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread Charlie
July 7, 2002 12:43 pm, Damian G wrote: > hey hey hey . i thought this was a RTFM-free list. now, > the reason i started this thrad was: > is there anything i need to add to my lilo settings > in order to specify a different System.map when > i choose to boot a different kernel? > > would somebody

[newbie] md: session setting in KDE

2002-07-07 Thread Michael Dannhorn
Hi, Since yesterday I have this problem: On each logon I get old session settings after login in KDE (3.0). Konqueror, OOffice and somme other Programs appering on screen. I haven't said yes to 'Save session on futere logons' after closing and logout from KDE. What to do against it? And where

Re: [newbie] i need xf86config help !

2002-07-07 Thread Charlie
July 7, 2002 11:50 am, Tania Morell wrote: > I'm trying to get x running on my new laptop. It's a Toshiba satellite > s501 which has a gforce 440 go video chip and a 15.0" high resolution > SXGA+ TFT screen.. > > If anybody has anything even remotely resembling this, I'd LOVE to see > your xf86

Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-07 Thread John Richard Smith
>>You can't use fdisk to get rid of Linux partitions, though. That will >>have to be with one of the commercial utilities if you want to do it from >>Windows. I think, though, that I got rid of a linux partition in the past >>by using a linux boot disk and using the linux fdisk utility to do it.

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread dfox
> Not true. 'make install' copies the kernel (not plops) to /boot, make > syslinks for vmlinuz & etc, & modifies lilo.config. You need to read the > complete message. Does RTFM stand for 'Read the Fine message'?? Perhaps there's a difference in the Mandrake source kernels, rather than those from

Re: [newbie] Controling monitor power management

2002-07-07 Thread Warren Post
On dom, 2002-07-07 at 01:10, Sevatio wrote: > Warren Post wrote: > > My monitor goes into power saving mode after 15 minutes of inactivity. > > This is not a window manager specific issue; it happens in all the wm's > > I'm playing with. I'd like to change that, but can't find the relevant > > com

Re: [newbie] more BS from RIAA: "Music Labels Plant Online Decoys, Mull Lawsuits"

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
Here is the site to assuage guilt http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php derek here is that site On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 7:41 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2002, shane wrote: > > it is funny, i buy music the same way i buy software. i get it free, and > > if i think it i pay f

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread ai4a
dfox wrote: > > > My system does not run lilo during the 'make install' process. I must do > > it myself. It does reconfig lilo.conf to add the new kernel. > > It's not supposed to. 'make bzlilo' does that. Make install just plops > the kernel in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386 somewhere. Not true. 'm

Re: [newbie] Removing mandrake 8.2 ...

2002-07-07 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 07 July 2002 11:13 am, Anne Wilson did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > You can't use fdisk to get rid of Linux partitions, though. That will > have to be with one of the commercial utilities if you want to do it from > Windows. I

[newbie] i need xf86config help !

2002-07-07 Thread Tania Morell
I’m trying to get x running on my new laptop.  It’s a Toshiba satellite s501 which has  a gforce 440 go  video chip and a 15.0” high resolution SXGA+ TFT screen..   If anybody has anything even remotely resembling this, I’d LOVE to see your xf86config-4 config file.   I’m running out of i

Re: [newbie] Windows Games - QT

2002-07-07 Thread dfox
t. I went to the mplayer site, downloaded the current tar (20020707) file, compiled and installed it. All I can get is the audio of a .mov file, no video. I get diagnostics about an unsupported video codec, and I tried the suggestions (update ~/.mplayer/codecs.conf) and read docs on codecs, but no

Re: [newbie] DEC Alpha Server

2002-07-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 07:03:17 +0100 Inhabitantofzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI > > I recently was given by a business friend of mine one of the above a 3000R > (well I had to give him a small fee for a few beers). > > It is fully functioning and has the 500mhz Alpha processor on it and 2g

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread ai4a
tom brinkman wrote: > > On Saturday 06 July 2002 09:22 pm, Damian G wrote: > > > so, apparently, that system.map is not mandatory to make > > a kernel boot > > I don't believe so. When you install a Mandrake pre-compiled > kernel the rpm (use 'rpm -ivh' ) it creates the proper links in

RE: [newbie]

2002-07-07 Thread Tania Morell
Thank you ver much.. unfortunately I haven't been able to get X running on this laptop so I can't try anything that requires x. Getting x to run will be todays challenge. Thanks again. -T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Derek Jennings

RE: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-07 Thread Michael Viron
Actually, in 8.2, you change the DocumentRoot Setting at the top of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf not commonhttpd.conf . The next thing you have to do, is in commonhttpd.conf, you need to change this set of lines: # # This should be changed to whatever you set DocumentRoot to. # # # This may also

Re: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-07 Thread Todd Slater
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002 20:45:52 +0930 "Shannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the info, never really thought about looking at the > commonhttpd.conf file, however my problem still occurs... > > I guess my question comes down to this > > What are the permission/ownership requirements o

[newbie] rpm database

2002-07-07 Thread Moshe Kaminsky
Hi, I tried installing some rpm packages (kde3) from the command line. It failed on dependencies - seems that rpm thinks I have nothing installed! I tried to run rpm --initdb It didn't help. When I typed rpm -qa It showed nothing. the rpm program I use is the one that came with the distribut

Re: [newbie] Virii WAS I thought Wal Mart had a deal with L-MDK?

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:40 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > Wouldn't it be great if we could just drop English and speak > Esperanto instead > > :) Or speak frog maybe? <> For the why? the answer is in the frogs. An ordinary frog goes "ribbit, ribbit" and a budfrog goes "bud ,,, Weis...

Re: [newbie] System.map

2002-07-07 Thread tom brinkman
On Saturday 06 July 2002 09:22 pm, Damian G wrote: > so, apparently, that system.map is not mandatory to make > a kernel boot I don't believe so. When you install a Mandrake pre-compiled kernel the rpm (use 'rpm -ivh' ) it creates the proper links in /boot for you, besides generating a

RE: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-07 Thread Shannon
Thanks for the info, never really thought about looking at the commonhttpd.conf file, however my problem still occurs... I guess my question comes down to this What are the permission/ownership requirements of DocumentRoot directories??? Cheers, Shannon -Original Message- From: [E

Re: [newbie]

2002-07-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 07 Jul 2002 3:36 am, Tania Morell wrote: > Hi, > > I bought a new laptop this week (myfirst) and installed mandrake 8.2 on > it. My netgear 401 wireless card is hot swappable so when I unplug/plug > it in, I get a couple messages from cardmgr on console listing the > manufacturer and mo