[newbie-it] Linux gsm

2002-07-09 Thread max
salve, possiedo un gsm nokia 6150 (vecchiotto..lo so..) che funziona bene con gnokii e xgnokii ma non ne vuol sapere di funzionare come modem. Tutto quello che posso fare è mandare messaggi, editare la rubrica, i loghi, gli appuntamentima non riesco ad usarlo come modem per collegarmi ad

[newbie-it] Ascoltare file MIDI

2002-07-09 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Salve, stavocerdando di ascoltare alcuni file midi, ma con mia grande meravglia, Kmid di da il seguente errore impossibile aprire dev/sequencer, sono andatonella directory dev ed ho notato che no esiste il file sequencer, ora vi chiedo, dove posso reperirlo??? O lo posso editare io, e se si

Re: [newbie-it] Modem di m@#§a!!!!!!

2002-07-09 Thread CyberPenguin
Roberto wrote: ok.Me lo aspettavo...Qualche bel v92 (magari interno così risparmio) che vada con xp e con linux? Il mio consiglio e' di optare per un seriale esterno. IMHO sono quelli che danno meno problemi. Con gli interni corri il rischio di acquistare un winmodem (praticamente solo

[newbie-it] flash

2002-07-09 Thread Brunini Alessandro
Salve alla lista, come mai quando ascolto un mp3 con xmms e contemporaneamente navigo con Mozilla/Netscape su un sito che ha qualche introduzione o animazione in flash, mi si pianta il browser? In pratica lo devo killare. Ciò non accade con xmms chiuso o con gli altri browser

RE: [newbie-it] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2002-07-09 Thread Di Fresco Marco
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Di Fresco Marco esclamo': /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy Could not open /dev/dsp a dsp0. dai un lsof _nome-dispositivo_, molto probabilmente c'e' qualcosa che gia' lo occupa. Mi dice che il comando (lsof) non esiste; ho provato a cercaro nel

[newbie-it] halt con la mdk 8.2

2002-07-09 Thread gigi pinna
finora non aveva dato problemi, poi improvvisamente da un paio di giorni il mio computer ha deciso di non spegnersi più correttamente: quando arriva a dire turn off quotas si pianta e rimane così in eterno. qualcuno ha avuto questo problema? come lo avete risolto? grazie

Re: [newbie-it] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy

2002-07-09 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Di Fresco Marco esclamo': Mi dice che il comando (lsof) non esiste; ho provato a cercaro nel Software Manager, ma nei CD non lo trovo. Dove potrei trovarlo Non mi viene in mente in quale cd sia, cmq ci dovrebbe essere (nel pacchetto omonimo), altrimenti

Re: [newbie-it] Xine 0.9.12 + driver alsa09

2002-07-09 Thread nicola
Alle 20:16, lunedì 8 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutta la ml! Ieri mi sono scaricato dal sito http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/~jcm/skyblade/ la versione 0.9.12 di Xine sotto forma di rpm per mandrake. Il programma funziona benissimo (con una qualità video veramente eccezzionale)

Re: [newbie-it] cnn con kmail

2002-07-09 Thread nicola
Alle 14:36, martedì 9 luglio 2002, hai scritto: qualcuno mi sa dire come mandare la posta usando il comando cnn (o bcc in inglese)? infatti kmail mi da come predefiniti solo i campi a e cc. sarò idiota ma non son riuscito a trovarlo! help me!

[newbie-it] Problemi col cdrom scsi e KDE3.02

2002-07-09 Thread Francesco Speranza
Ho installato KDE 3.02 aggiornando la precedente versione 3.0 ma ho il seguente problema : quando lancio konqueror il CD viene letto regolarmente ma poi non riesco piu' ad espellere il CD a menoche non chiudo konqueror e allora viene fuori. Da premettere che no uso supermount e per il

Re: [newbie-it] cnn con kmail

2002-07-09 Thread freefred
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 08:36, gigi pinna, talkin' about [newbie-it] cnn con kmail wrote: qualcuno mi sa dire come mandare la posta usando il comando cnn (o bcc in inglese)? infatti kmail mi da come predefiniti solo i campi a e cc. sarò idiota ma non son riuscito a trovarlo! help me! Quando

[newbie-it] mdk e winXP su notebook...

2002-07-09 Thread Max Di Casola
ciao a tutti! ho un paio di cose da chiedervi dal momento che sto per acquistare un Acer Travelmate serie 630 con WinXP Pro: 1. qualcuno ce l'ha e mi sa dire se ci sono problemi di (in)compatibilità hardware con Mdk8.x ? 2. dal momento che è presente WinXP preinstallato e che devo anche tenerlo

Re: [newbie-it] halt con la mdk 8.2

2002-07-09 Thread CyberPenguin
gigi pinna wrote: finora non aveva dato problemi, poi improvvisamente da un paio di giorni il mio computer ha deciso di non spegnersi più correttamente: quando arriva a dire turn off quotas si pianta e rimane così in eterno. qualcuno ha avuto questo problema? come lo avete risolto? Io ho

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi col cdrom scsi e KDE3.02

2002-07-09 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:33, martedì 9 luglio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Problemi col cdrom scsi e KDE3.02, Francesco Speranza ha scritto: quando lancio konqueror il CD viene letto regolarmente ma poi non riesco piu' ad espellere il CD a menoche non chiudo

Re: [newbie-it] cnn con kmail (fwd)

2002-07-09 Thread LukenShiro
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:53:59 +0200 (CEST) From: LukenShiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] cnn con kmail In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, gigi pinna esclamo': qualcuno mi sa dire come mandare la posta usando il

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi col cdrom scsi e KDE3.02

2002-07-09 Thread elio
Alle 22:41, martedì 9 luglio 2002, miKe ha scritto: noterai che se lo stai usando, non lo potrai smontare (e mi pare chiaro...) miKe Il problema è che una volta montato non si riesce più a smontarlo, anche se non lo usi più, fino a che non chiudi tutte le finestre di konqueror aperte anche

[newbie] missing charsets

2002-07-09 Thread g2
hi, what caused this? Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1 Gdk-WARNING **: charsets in FontSet creation I already changed my charset in Look and Feel but this continues to appear. how can I fix this? -- g2 Intelligence, acquired; Wisdom, inherent. RLU # 278414 Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread teddy wl
I'm so sorry, I'm newly join this mailing list, and I'm newbie to in linux. i use Mandrake8.2/kde 2.2.2 I have KDE3.0 that build from Mandrake RPM, how to upgrade kde2.2.2 in mandrake to kde3? yesterday I try to upgrade but the system look like not stable,mybe all of you can give me some

Re: [newbie] Inodes

2002-07-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Tue, 09 Jul 2002 06:16, Gene Parsons wrote: Is there a way to copy a file using the inode only? Curious as to why you want to do this. Perhaps linking is what you are after. It creates a file redirect if i understand it correctly. man ln -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Napier
What Southbridge does the Epox EP-6VBA have? Could be one of following VT8231, VT82C686A, VT82C686B, VT8233, VT8233A, VT8233C, VT8235 All but the VT8235 are currently supported, although the VT8233A requires a new driver to get it working. Xine can use OSS, ALSA, ESD and ARTSD but I have only

[newbie] chkconfig - can't find used secure level

2002-07-09 Thread Ross Pearson
When I run chkconfig I get the following: # chkconfig --add bastile-firewall Couldn't find used secure level, You should correct this problem by running /usr/sbin/msec secure level Although I'm sure that msec is all in order, I run it (level 3) as suggested but still get no further with

Re: [newbie] chkconfig - can't find used secure level

2002-07-09 Thread Ross Pearson
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Ross Pearson wrote: Sorry all, posted before I had STFW. Seems its a well known problem. For reference the solution is at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/errata.php3#msec Ross When I run chkconfig I get the following: # chkconfig --add bastile-firewall Couldn't

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Jul 2002 8:48 am, teddy wl wrote: I'm so sorry, I'm newly join this mailing list, and I'm newbie to in linux. i use Mandrake8.2/kde 2.2.2 I have KDE3.0 that build from Mandrake RPM, how to upgrade kde2.2.2 in mandrake to kde3? yesterday I try to upgrade but the system look

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera

2002-07-09 Thread Len Lawrence
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:55:03PM +0100, Len Lawrence wrote: A friend has asked me to check out a camera received as a present. ... Any pointers? -- Len Lawrence Shouldn't be a problem, Len. I added

RE: [newbie] Quake III with nvidia

2002-07-09 Thread Tenchi
Thanks for the answer. (Yes my name means that. Actually Tenchi is my favorite cartoon, I've got all OAV's, All Tenchi TV and Tenchi in Tokyo, the 3 movies, and episode 12 of GXP :-)My girlfriend calls me like that as she knows my obsession) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

[newbie] remove Mandrake safely

2002-07-09 Thread Dave Conroy
Hi Mike, Monday, July 8, 2002, 8:49:14 PM, you wrote: MS I recently had to do this myself in order to cleanly reinstall Linux. After MS several frustrating attempts to use DOS's FDISD, I went to www.fdisk.com to MS download their freebie version which works with MD as well as MS. My original

Fw: [newbie] microtek scanmaker 3800 USB

2002-07-09 Thread Andy Napier
- Original Message - From: Andy Napier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] microtek scanmaker 3800 USB Hi Goto http://www.mostang.com/sane/ and check if you scanner is supportedjust checked and doesn't look like it

Re: [newbie] remove Mandrake safely

2002-07-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:09:44 +0100 Dave Conroy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mike, My original query was about separate Win2000 and MD8.2 hard drives and LiLo as boot manager. I want to remove the MD8.2 hard drive and site it in a separate box so I can play around learning Apache. I want my

Re: [newbie] USB digital camera

2002-07-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:18:26AM +0100, Len Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 08:55:03PM +0100, Len Lawrence wrote: A friend has asked me to check out a camera received as a present. ... Any

RE: [newbie] Apache DocumentRoot

2002-07-09 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Shannon, Have you set up a .htaccess file? If not try setting one up, or else if it has one are the settings correct? Tony. -Original Message- From: Roy Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 4:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Apache

Re: [newbie] Inodes

2002-07-09 Thread Randy Kramer
Michael Adams wrote: Perhaps linking is what you are after. It creates a file redirect if i understand it correctly. Oh, joy, more new terminology ;-( What is a file redirect? Well, Ok, since you equate it with linking, I suppose I can guess. But, to satisfy my curiosity, can you tell me

[newbie] Opera 6.02 and Java

2002-07-09 Thread Guilherme Cirne
Hi, I have a strange problem. Java has stopped working suddenly in Opera 6.02. It was working perfectly before and it is working perfectly in other browsers (Konqueror and Mozilla). I have j2re-1.4.0 installed correctly. What happens when I try to load a page that has java is this: the Java

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread tom brinkman
On Monday 08 July 2002 11:55 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 17:38, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 08 July 2002 03:20 pm, john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have

Re: [newbie] Opera 6.02 and Java

2002-07-09 Thread Rich
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 11:12, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem. Java has stopped working suddenly in Opera 6.02. It was working perfectly before and it is working perfectly in other browsers (Konqueror and Mozilla). I have j2re-1.4.0 installed correctly. What happens

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread john drouhard
On Monday 08 July 2002 11:17 pm, you wrote: John, I'll try to help as best I can. Sorry that the information you've gotten so far has not helped; I hope we can get it working. Have you tried changing the interrupt that the card resides on? And have you managed to get the exact model of

[newbie] mjpegtools error

2002-07-09 Thread drwhat
howdy all trying to get mjpegtools running here... I get the following errors [drwhat@tardis video]$ lavrec -f a -i n -R l test.avi INFO: Recording parameters: INFO: Output format: AVI INFO: Input Source: Composite NTSC INFO: Decimation: 4 INFO:

Re: [newbie] Opera 6.02 and Java

2002-07-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Jul 2002 4:12 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem. Java has stopped working suddenly in Opera 6.02. It was working perfectly before and it is working perfectly in other browsers (Konqueror and Mozilla). I have j2re-1.4.0 installed correctly. What happens

[newbie] small KDE3.02 problem

2002-07-09 Thread LtCdData
hi i installed KDE3.02 most things seem ok except everytime i close a konsole i get a popup error KDEInit could not launch 'konsole-noxft' i just click the ok button..but how can i fix this ?? cheerz David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] html help files

2002-07-09 Thread Anne Wilson
A couple of weeks ago someone told me how to convert html help files into something more useful I thought I had saved it but I can't find it. I think it involed LaTeX (sp?) I'd appreciate seeing the instructions again. Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] small KDE3.02 problem

2002-07-09 Thread Terry Sheltra
I've had that problem as well with KDE 3.0.1. What I did to try and fix it was to right-click on the konsole icon, select preferences, and under the execute tab, place a blank space (hit the space bar) between the word konsole and -nofxt. For me, that would work sometimes, but KDE would

RE: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-09 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Anne, Have you tried the archive? other than that I don't know, sorry. Tony. -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] html help files A couple of weeks ago someone told me how to

[newbie] Re: [newbie-it] flash

2002-07-09 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, LukenShiro esclamo': [cut] Sorry, I sent the message to the wrong mailing-list. It was supposed to be sent to newbie-it. My sincere apologizes :(( Bye, Lk Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: [newbie-it] flash

2002-07-09 Thread LukenShiro
In un altro luogo e in un altro tempo, Brunini Alessandro esclamo': come mai quando ascolto un mp3 con xmms e contemporaneamente navigo con Mozilla/Netscape su un sito che ha qualche introduzione o animazione in flash, mi si pianta il browser? Dovresti provare ad avviarlo dal terminale di

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Miark wrote: I never had one, but I understood they were very good. But I thought IBM is getting out of the hard drive business...? Miark Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: What's your opinion of IBM Hard Drives? I was going to continue buying them since IBM is a supporter of Linux.

Re: [newbie] apm --suspend in linux

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram wrote: Hi, I am using Mandrake 8.2 on an Athlon laptop (I Think it is via apollo mobo). I am able to suspend the laptop using apm --suspend but when I resume it (by hitting some key), the laptop seems to start for a moment but all I get is a blank screen:I do a hard

Re: [newbie] OT Why HTML mail is bad

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Todd Slater wrote: Somewhere I bookmarked pages that explained why HTML email is bad, but I'll be darned if I can find them now. I recall getting some of them from this list, so if you've got a page you share with folks to help explain why HTML mail is bad, could you share it? You can respond

[newbie] Duplex Settings on Network Cards

2002-07-09 Thread Travis Crook
Hello, I am trying to get two network cards to talk at the same speed in a firewall. I used mii-tool and it shows that both NICs are running 100baseTx-FD but one has flow control on it. How do I disable the flow control? Travis CrookVisions Beyond

Re: [newbie] Posting Help

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Mike Settle wrote: Whatever it was, you must've fixed it.. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Chuck Stuettgen Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2002 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Posting Help I am posting this from my

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed up with my aureal card. I have everything I can think of. I have a vortex 2 (au8830). I have installed the CVS drivers from Sourceforge, and the install did not find my aureal card. I had to manually make the driver as an au8830. It

RE: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-09 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] sound problems -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound problems john drouhard wrote: I need a lot of help. I am very fed

Re: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-09 Thread Graham Watkins
There may be other ways but I saved a help page on the web by printing it to a file - this gave me a nice postscript file, the only drawback being that the links no longer worked. You could then convert it to a pdf (with ps2pdf) to save space. Anne Wilson wrote: A couple of weeks ago someone

Re: [newbie] Opera 6.02 and Java

2002-07-09 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 13:09, you wrote: On Tuesday 09 Jul 2002 4:12 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I have a strange problem. Java has stopped working suddenly in Opera 6.02. It was working perfectly before and it is working perfectly in other browsers (Konqueror and Mozilla). I have

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread Belgarius
Basically, stay away. The new ones are not rated for 24/7 operation. The only decent drives left in IDE seem to be Maxtor, and I have returned one of their 60G models this year. Civileme I've got a 20 gig Maxtor here that I am planning to send back for the third time, for the same

[newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread Adrian Burd
I'm just wondering, but does one ever get a reply from Mandrake Support? I purchased a Mandrake 8.2 boxed set which is means to have online support. I went to the website and filled out the forms and put in a request. That was 4 days ago. Should I give up or wait some more? Has anyone else had

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread Barry Michels
Maxtor?!? All but 2 I've been around (at work) have died at one time or another. I would never buy a Maxtor or Quantum. YMMV - Original Message - From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 3:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives? Miark

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread Anthony Hopkin
They do. I have logged three calls in a couple of months to open tech support at mandrake-expert. Each has had a spot on reply from the community which helped me figure out the problem. The last one got a response in one hour. Don't give up hope! You also might consider asking here? [;¬)}

[newbie] Ksplash/ML and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-09 Thread Terry Sheltra
I just upgraded to KDE 3.0.2 from 3.0.1, and now the KSplash/ML splash screen does not work. It defaults to the standard splash screen, even though I can see the configuration for KSplash/ML in the control panel. Any ideas what got messed up? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Network

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread et
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04:50 pm, you wrote: I'm just wondering, but does one ever get a reply from Mandrake Support? I purchased a Mandrake 8.2 boxed set which is means to have online support. I went to the website and filled out the forms and put in a request. That was 4 days ago. Should I

Re: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-09 Thread robin
Anne Wilson wrote: A couple of weeks ago someone told me how to convert html help files into something more useful I thought I had saved it but I can't find it. I think it involed LaTeX (sp?) I'd appreciate seeing the instructions again. If you have html2latex (it's not on the Mandrake CDs

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread Adrian Burd
et == et [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: et On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04:50 pm, you wrote: I'm just wondering, but does one ever get a reply from Mandrake Support? I purchased a Mandrake 8.2 boxed set which is means to have online support. I went to the website and filled out the

Re: [newbie] Ksplash/ML and KDE 3.0.2

2002-07-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Jul 2002 10:34 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I just upgraded to KDE 3.0.2 from 3.0.1, and now the KSplash/ML splash screen does not work. It defaults to the standard splash screen, even though I can see the configuration for KSplash/ML in the control panel. Any ideas what got

[newbie] browser loading speed

2002-07-09 Thread Todd Slater
Lately it seems my browsers are starting slowly. Opera takes anywhere from 20-30 seconds to launch, Mozilla takes between 10-20 seconds, and Dillo takes about 1 second. I'm running MD 8.1, 500MHz AMD, 384MB RAM. Is that what I should expect? Would switching from ext2 to ext3 have anything to do

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Adrian Burd wrote: I'm just wondering, but does one ever get a reply from Mandrake Support? I purchased a Mandrake 8.2 boxed set which is means to have online support. I went to the website and filled out the forms and put in a request. That was 4 days ago. Should I give up or wait some more?

[newbie] AOL CD-RW problem

2002-07-09 Thread AOL Systems
Just want to askI have a LG CD-RW I want to used it in my Linux machine wat software will i need to burn my cd's and does it need a driver before I can used it?What else will I consider to run my CDRW on my Linux machine Thanks! any help will gladly appreciated. Respectfully AOL (newbie)

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Adrian Burd wrote: et == et [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: et On Tuesday 09 July 2002 04:50 pm, you wrote: I'm just wondering, but does one ever get a reply from Mandrake Support? I purchased a Mandrake 8.2 boxed set which is means to have online support. I went to the website

Re: [newbie] AOL CD-RW problem

2002-07-09 Thread Jose Mirles
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 08:08:27 -0700 AOL Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to askI have a LG CD-RW I want to used it in my Linux machine wat software will i need to burn my cd's and does it need a driver before I can used it?What else will I consider to run my CDRW on my Linux machine

[newbie] hard disk speed.

2002-07-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
For video recording, I have read in many places that speed of HDD should be 7200 RPM. I have one 8.1GB and 20 GB seagate HDDs. On the label I coudn't find anything. Any software to find out? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread Travis Crook
I have never had a Maxtor drive die on me (I have used a dozen or so). I have had Western Digitals die on me before. Travis Crook Visions Beyond Maxtor?!? All but 2 I've been around (at work) have died at one time or another. I would never buy a Maxtor or Quantum. YMMV Want to buy

[newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have mdk 8.2 with kde3 in /opt. I tried to change kdm settings. Though I could change them in dialog, it is not taking reflected when I logout/reboot. What to do. I work in kde3. -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC

[newbie] sound sever for video programs.

2002-07-09 Thread L.V.Gandhi
When I use mplayer or ffmpeg, I don't get sound. I tried soundwrapper as used for xmms, it also didn't help. May be it is sound only. How to make sound server recognise these video programs? -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-09 Thread Joseph Braddock
I would guess that you still have KDE2 still loaded on your system. If so, it is the kdm that loads instead of the KDE3 version (which is what you are configuring). To get KDM from KDE3 to load change the last line in /etc/inittab to read: x:5:respawn:/opt/kde3/bin/kdm -nodaemon (instead of

[newbie] Formatting a Zip Disk

2002-07-09 Thread Jerry Van Brimmer
What would be the command to format a 250MB Zip disk in vfat? I have a 250MB zip disk that I deleted some files from, but df still shows the old file space as still used. Thanks for advice, Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread dfox
Maxtor?!? All but 2 I've been around (at work) have died at one time or another. I would never buy a Maxtor or Quantum. Well, I admit to having less than perfect luck with the Maxtor 1.6 gig drive I bought in 1996 - it seems to have developed one or two bad sectors since installation -- but

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-09 Thread Tim Holmes
I've gone through and made this change, but I still get KDM for KDE2.x. If I then try and load KDE3, it gives me IceWM. I've been using this webpage to set it up. http://www.desktop-linux.net/kde3-tips.htm I went through and did as it says. And it doesn't make sense that merely changing the

Re: [newbie] WAS IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread James R. McKenzie
Quantum Bigfoot is a klunker, if you have one of them give it to someone you really don't like. The Quantum division Maxtor bought out was a BIG mistake on their part but I've had great luck so far with the drives Maxtor made for themselves. The brands only I trust are Western Digital, Maxtor

Re: [newbie] hard disk speed.

2002-07-09 Thread dfox
find anything. Any software to find out? Wouldn't hdparm report the speed? after a brief check, it doesn't seem to report it. Oh well. You might try the specs on the manufacturer's web page. Many IDE drives are 7200; it's a common speed, Some are 1, and a few older ones spin at 5300 or so.

Re: [newbie] Formatting a Zip Disk

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
Jerry Van Brimmer wrote: What would be the command to format a 250MB Zip disk in vfat? I have a 250MB zip disk that I deleted some files from, but df still shows the old file space as still used. Thanks for advice, Jerry

Re: [newbie] AOL CD-RW problem

2002-07-09 Thread civileme
AOL Systems wrote: Just want to askI have a LG CD-RW I want to used it in my Linux machine wat software will i need to burn my cd's and does it need a driver before I can used it?What else will I consider to run my CDRW on my Linux machine Thanks! any help will gladly appreciated. Respectfully

Re: [newbie] hard disk speed.

2002-07-09 Thread pascal
On Wed, 10 July 2002, L.V.Gandhi wrote For video recording, I have read in many places that speed of HDD should be 7200 RPM. It's like saying that when you move, you need a 40 cubic meters truck. It depends on what you have to move. As for video, it depends on the bitrate of the video and

Re: [newbie] WAS IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread s
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 10:14 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: My dad just got a new Systemax computer with a Samsung 80 GB 7200RPM ATA 100 HDD in it, so I'll be watching it but still the 3 brands I mentioned are the only ones I trust. Hi, I have a 4.3gig Samsung that came in an emachine 2 or 3

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-09 Thread dfox
I'm curious about something. compared to the upgrading of KDE from version(s) 1.x.x to 2.x.x the upgrade went rather smoothly once you had Agreed that 2.2.x to 3.0 beta was a minor pain, due mostly to a lot of dependency conflicts. I have found that upgrading the 3.0 beta1 to 3.0.1 and now

[newbie] JDK

2002-07-09 Thread aaronfholiday
Hello All! I'm a Java developer that's recently migrated to Linux from Windows, but I'm not making too much progress in some areas. I'm trying to install J2EE and seem to be hittin' brick walls. I've downloaded various files from Sun, but cannot seem to open those that have a '.z' extension,

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-09 Thread Graham Watkins
I have mixed reports on the Maxtor disks. I've had two die on me within their guarantee period. However, the replacements have worked fine. Barry Michels wrote: Maxtor?!? All but 2 I've been around (at work) have died at one time or another. I would never buy a Maxtor or Quantum. YMMV