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

2002-07-10 Thread Andrea Celli
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 21:33:55 +0200 Francesco Speranza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho installato KDE 3.02 aggiornando la precedente versione 3.0 .. ma poi non riesco piu' ad espellere il CD a menoche non chiudo konqueror e allora viene fuori. Da premettere che no uso supermount ...

Re: [newbie-it] flash (fwd)

2002-07-10 Thread CyberPenguin
LukenShiro wrote: Notare l'ora di invio originaria della mia risposta qui sotto, [cut] Capita a qualcun altro? [cut] Si, ma non in questa ML. Mi succede con altre due. A volte i miei messaggi arrivano addirittura con qualche giorno di ritardo, ma almeno non sono mai stati persi. Mah %-)

Re: [newbie-it] flash (fwd)

2002-07-10 Thread tom
Alle 23:29, martedì 9 luglio 2002, LukenShiro ha scritto: spesso devo spedirli due volte i messaggi, perche' in lista non arrivano o arrivano con _giorni_ di ritardo :-/// Capita a qualcun altro? con altre ML non mi e' mai successo, quindi direi che e' un problema di gestione, anche

Re: [newbie-it] immagini

2002-07-10 Thread Luigi De Pascale
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Emiliano wrote: In realtà vi disturbo perché desiderei che mi consigliaste un programmino che riesca a convestire le immagini jpeg, tif, bitmap in postscript (ps, eps). C'è forse un comando da shell per fare questo?? ciao grazie Prova xv. Ti permette anche di

[newbie-it] Visualizzazione immagini

2002-07-10 Thread nicola
Buon giorno a tutta la ML, ho da poco scoperto di avere uno strano problema. Quando ho un immagine molto grande 1900x1200 o 1600x1200 quando le ridimensiono per usarle come sfondo di gdm o kde (entrambi a risoluzioni 1024x768) mi compaiono dei simboli strani sull'immagine, che possono andare

[newbie-it] Modem Seriali

2002-07-10 Thread nicola
Scusate per la banalità della questione, ma avrei interesse a sapere se ogni modem seriale esterno è compatibile con linux. Questo perchè avrei interesse a comprare il nuovo modello di modem trust V92, ma usandolo unicamente in ambiente linux non vorrei fare uno sbaglio. Grazie Nicola --

[newbie-it] Re: immagini

2002-07-10 Thread Emiliano
-- Messaggio inoltrato -- Subject: Re: immagini Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 19:49:10 +0200 From: Emiliano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alle 17:11, mercoledì 10 luglio 2002, hai scritto: In realtà vi disturbo perché desiderei che mi consigliaste un programmino che riesca a convestire le

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

2002-07-10 Thread luigi pinna
Alle 21:03, mercoledì 10 luglio 2002, hai scritto: Se vuoi un consiglio spassionato, prima di spengere brutalmente, attendi qualche minuto (in realtà anche solo 30 sec) e vedi cosa succede, se ti funziona come a me il tuo pc si spengerà normalmente. Abbi più fiducia in Linux, anche quando

Re: [newbie] kdm configure not working.

2002-07-10 Thread Derek Jennings
Try editing /etc/X11/prefdm to put PATH=/opt/kde3/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin derek On Wednesday 10 Jul 2002 4:03 am, Tim Holmes wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-10 Thread Julian Opificius
I've been on a Western Digital trip for several years now and have no reason to change. I've used several professionally over the past decade, and own three of them personally (bought within the last three years) at last count. They are running 24/7, and I've never had so much as a squeak

Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Adams
Ah Southbridge?... is it on this list. [root@localhost michael]# lspcidrake agpgart : VIA Technologies|VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] unknown : VIA

Re: [newbie] Does Mandrake Support ever answer?

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 12:19, civileme wrote: 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

[newbie] strange problem with sxga laptop screen and xf86 4.2.0

2002-07-10 Thread Tania Morell
My screen is 15' sxga. Finally got x working this sunday but since then I've been trying to fix this small problem with it but no luck at all after 2 days so please help! =) I get a half inch thick black line on right hand side of the screen. Basically x isn't using all of the screen's width.

Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine

2002-07-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael Adams wrote: Ah Southbridge?... is it on this list. [root@localhost michael]# lspcidrake agpgart : VIA Technologies|VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C598 [Apollo MVP3 AGP] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT82C686 [Apollo Super] unknown

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread mike
though I am not a Linux guru by any means, I would like to concur with the thoughs of Lyvim. I have severial win only type bits of hardware, like my Nvidia card, Win hp printer, etc. and have found that as LX mentioned it was only a matter of configuration. In fact I like to try to put LM on

RE: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware

2002-07-10 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Azrael Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 6:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Connection Sharing - best hardware Running Mdk8.2 and

RE: [newbie] JDK

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Stewart
Title: RE: [newbie] JDK Hi Aaron, J2EE is not a complete runtimethe way the J2SE or even J2ME are. It is a set of additional libraries that assume an installedJDK (provided by J2SE). I don't see any Linux files that have a .z extension. The only .z files are for Solaris which may still

RE: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread Mark Stewart
Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas In defense of Aureal, the hardware itself

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 06:01 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I don't disagree with the principles stated, as I tried to make clear. What I do disagree with is when an ex Dos user or ex winblows user is told to trash their beloved hardware that they may So it's simply a user choice, and not

RE: [newbie] JDK

2002-07-10 Thread Anand Kumar Kalyanasundaram
Hi Aaron, I downloaded j2ee for linux and I got a .tar.gz file. To untar this archive you could use tar zxvf file. As Mark said, you need to have jsdk installed before you can run j2ee. You can setup your jsdk and j2ee directories anywhere, just make shure that you set the two (or three variables

Re: [newbie] html help files

2002-07-10 Thread Randy Kramer
robin wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine

2002-07-10 Thread Andy Napier
Looks like the VT82C686 so modules.conf should look something like this, I'd open up you case and have a look at the Southbridge to get the exact revision... as there are 2 versions a and B rule of thumb if I remember correctly is that a only supports ATA66 and B supports ATA100 (not sure if

Re: [newbie] small KDE3.02 problem

2002-07-10 Thread daRcmaTTeR
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, Roman Korcek wrote: 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 ?? IIRC you need to edit the button's properties

[newbie] Orinoco USB adapter

2002-07-10 Thread John Bodden
Has anyone gotten an Orinoco USB Wireless adapter working with Mandrake? I know the USB adapters are fairly new (in the last year or so anyway) and I have not found any info concerning the USB version of the adapter.

[newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread robert macdonald
Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread Azrael
robert macdonald wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much umm.. maybe you don't understand what you're asking. or maybe I don't understand. cgi in the way you refer to it is a system by which

RE: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Web Page -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of robert macdonald Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 1:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Web Page Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage

Re: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread robert macdonald
That is what I am looking for. Sorry but I do not have much experience. Thank you very much for clarifying and helping me. From: Azrael [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Web Page Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 20:10:12 +0100 robert macdonald

Re: [newbie] Web Page

2002-07-10 Thread D. Olson
I use Quanta, and I use straight HTML, CSS, and PHP for my pages. On Wednesday 10 July 2002 02:59 pm, you wrote: Can someone give me some info? Wondering what other webpage creating software there is for linux other than cgi? Thanks much -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:12 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: tom brinkman wrote: All I originally said was Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card Maybe so, but, AFAICT, you also said this:

[newbie] Ever do 8.2 on an Evo D310? HELP!

2002-07-10 Thread Tommy Eaton
Hi there, I recently purchased a Compaq Evo D310 as a test server for Mandrake 8.2. I was dismayed today after I attempted to install 8.2 and found that it was giving nothing but problems with video and network. Now, while I am very much a newbie to this operating system, I have

[newbie] xinerama ATI Radeon/S3 configuration

2002-07-10 Thread Joe Dennehy
I have been playing around with mandrake for a few versions now(since 8.0), but have never been able to make xinerama work. Has anyone had success using it with this hardware/software? ATI radeon 32mb SDR pci S3 Trio (primary card in bios) SIS 630e motherboard w/ integrated agp video/sound/NIC

Re: [newbie] Ever do 8.2 on an Evo D310? HELP!

2002-07-10 Thread Derek Jennings
I've no experience with that model, but if you have video and Lan problems the first thought that comes to mind is an IRQ conflict. They are not both on the same IRQ line are they? At what point are you having trouble? Can you get a console prompt? In which case dmesg will give you lots of

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 03:16 pm, civileme wrote: frightening future of Linux Co.'s snipped But, make no mistake, the issue is open versus closed source. On 5% of the market and a whole lot less than 5% of the money, linux has made a world-class Op system that makes Windows look sick.

[newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-10 Thread Joe Harkins
I'm having a very weird trip trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on the secod HD on this box. I'm running WINxp on the primary drive and want Mandrake on the smaller (6 gigs). I have had many weird things occur, some that seem impossible. It's hard to figure out which are significant so I that

[newbie] Reconfiguring X

2002-07-10 Thread Travis Crook
Hi all, I recently changed video cards in my machine. How do I reconfigure X to work with the new card? Travis CrookVisions Beyond

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-10 Thread Stephen Britton
Hi John, Perl is a scripting language that comes standard with almost every major Linux distribution, including Mandrake. It's probably the most popular programming language on the Internet. Perl can be used for many things from system administration to processing HTML forms. If you want more

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-10 Thread g
civileme wrote: 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. good advice, now that ibm is no longer building their own drives. i have an 8 gb and 10 gb

Re: [newbie] Reconfiguring X

2002-07-10 Thread mike
Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I recently changed video cards in my machine. How do I reconfigure X to work with the new card? Didn't it find the card when you rebooted? If not maybe kudzu isn't set to run at startup. or the card isn't supported. or it's configured wrong. What

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-10 Thread et
is the smaller drive a master or slave and which ide channel is it on and does that IDE channel have any other devices? On Wednesday 10 July 2002 06:10 pm, you wrote: I'm having a very weird trip trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on the secod HD on this box. I'm running WINxp on the primary

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

2002-07-10 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Derek Jennings wrote: Here is the site to assuage guilt http://www.fairtunes.com/functions/mlmain.php derek Heh...thanks Derek... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread et
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 04:48 pm, you wrote: On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:12 pm, Randy Kramer wrote: tom brinkman wrote: All I originally said was Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-10 Thread Femme
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 16:10, Joe Harkins wrote: I'm having a very weird trip trying to install Mandrake 8.2 on the secod HD on this box. I'm running WINxp on the primary drive and want Mandrake on the smaller (6 gigs). I have had many weird things occur, some that seem impossible. It's

Re: [newbie] Reconfiguring X

2002-07-10 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 16:41:41 -0600 Travis Crook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I recently changed video cards in my machine. How do I reconfigure X to work with the new card? Travis Crook Visions Beyond Civileme just posted an answer related to this, I believe the subject had

[newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Femme
I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD itself, and can't have both floppy CD-Rom

RE: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Nick Emans
Femme: Can't the BIOS be set to boot off the CD? Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into

RE: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Femme
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:05, Nick Emans wrote: Femme: Can't the BIOS be set to boot off the CD? Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once.

Re: [newbie] [OT] more BS from RIAA (was longer)

2002-07-10 Thread Charlie
July 6, 2002 03:56 am, Anne Wilson wrote: snip As an aside - I was a teenager in the late '50s. An article I read recently highlighted the lifestyle cost in comparative terms. I found that the simple record player I bought then cost the equivalent of £833. I could never afford LP

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Femme
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 19:27, bascule wrote: how big is the hard disk, if there is space and win is installed and you have the utilities to do it you could make room for a partition to copy one iso to and do a hard disk install using the hd.img on floppy, you could then add the other cd's

Re: [newbie] Identifying sound server for Xine

2002-07-10 Thread Michael Adams
I wonder if I should have stated that sound is working on my system. Just not in Xine. I want to identify which sound server is working so i can tell Xine. Xine is currently set to null in setup Audio tag. On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 03:35, Andy Napier wrote: Looks like the VT82C686 so modules.conf

Re: [newbie] Perl

2002-07-10 Thread Dan Butler
This months issue of Linux Magazine talks about Perl and scripting languages in general. I'm with John, but see some of Jeanie's side too. I work as a network / database administrator, with more of my work on the database side. I really enjoy data manipulation using awk and sed and keep

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread bascule
iirc one can copy the contents of all the cds into one single directory stucture with cds 2 and 3 going under .../Mandrake/RPMS2 and /RPMS3 respectively, however the partition with the install files on it is then unavailable for installing onto and it might be nice to maximise the space

Re: [newbie] Laptop question

2002-07-10 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 20:54, Femme wrote: I have come into ownership of an older HP Omnibook, a PII 233 iirc, and its got a removeable CD-Rom Floppy drive. Can't have both attached at once. I had planned to stick mandrake on it, however I ran into a small snag. If I can't boot the CD

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-10 Thread bascule
if you had error messages not seen before 'after' having a successful install go south on you then perhaps you have a hardware failure on the cards?, that would explain why you 'lost' the install that was working, what you described by the way seemed to be an install with 'autologin'

[newbie] xmms 1.2.6. problem with modifying visualization plugins

2002-07-10 Thread Terence J. Golightly
I sent this message out on monday and I didn't see it posted. I apologize to the list for the bandwidth. List I am currently unable to configure my visualization plugins in xmms version 1.2.6. I get a stack constraint failed error. It happens when the window opens the error message appears

Re: [newbie] sound problems (the political aspect)

2002-07-10 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:14 pm, tom brinkman wrote: Mark Stewart wrote: Save your sanity, try to avoid win-hardware in the future, blame uncle billy for aureal. Look here to find a_real sound card http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/ -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] sound problems

2002-07-10 Thread tom brinkman
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:26 pm, et wrote: but really Tom, how do you fell about winmodems (just joking) No worse or better than any other win-hardware, they don't even work very well with M$ winwoes. The shame of it is gettin the more or less unsuspecting public to pay $40 for $2

[newbie] mp3 encoder for GRIP ...

2002-07-10 Thread Rainer
hello, finally managed to get grip installed. only the dependencies had dependencies and that went on for awhile ... anyway i successfully ripped some cd's but only in ogg format. that's alright but i have a lot of friends who don't know what a 'linux' is or a winamp

Re: [newbie] IBM Hard Drives?

2002-07-10 Thread Julian Opificius
At 06:20 AM 7/10/02, you wrote: Western Digital drives are by far the worst you can get. Officially, the company only supports Windows and Solaris, so if you choose any other OS (like GNU/Linux) you're on your own. WD drives lack some vital CRC circuitry, and they don't comply fully with the

Re: [newbie] Attachments

2002-07-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 July 2002 05:05 am, Taras Panio did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: When saving attachments from Kmail to disk, MS Word files are changing into files of plain text type. As the result, when opened later with OpenOffice

[newbie] 3Com USR Modem Installation

2002-07-10 Thread seepo2
Hi all, I have Mandrake 8.1 installed and am using KDE. I bought what I thought was a Linux-compatible modem (it says so on the damn box), yet when I try to install in Hardrake it shows the correct modem id but won't configure it as it says it's a Winmodem. I'm a bit ticked by that, but

[newbie] Re: the political aspect, %'s

2002-07-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 July 2002 01:16 pm, civileme did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: But, make no mistake, the issue is open versus closed source. On 5% of the market and a whole lot less than 5% of the money, linux has made a is it only 5%?

[newbie] USB 250 Zip Drive and Linux?

2002-07-10 Thread Terry Sheltra
I've read somewhere that USB 250MB Zip drives do not work with Linux. Is this true? If not, what do I need to do to get it working? Thanks! -- Terry Sheltra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stange install works and then doesn't

2002-07-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 July 2002 07:22 pm, bascule did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: how about just wiping the hd that you wish to put mandrake on completely and starting again with a text install since if i read aright that worked for you,

Re: [newbie] mp3 encoder for GRIP ...

2002-07-10 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 July 2002 09:06 pm, Rainer did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: finally managed to get grip installed. only the dependencies had dependencies and that went on for awhile ... anyway i successfully ripped some cd's but

[newbie] Server side includes

2002-07-10 Thread Ross Slade
I have an odd problem trying to get the above to work...it works perfectly for 'index.shtml' - but no other file. index.shtml has an included file: !--#include file=footer.shtml-- This works. However, if I copy index.shtml to (say) test.shtml it no longer works. Same file, same

[newbie] link for 'notlame' ... (shane)

2002-07-10 Thread Rainer
thanks for the info. looked through the previous link for rpms and couldn't find 'notlame'. checked google (not all of it) and could only see i586 stuff. so, if you would be so kind, i'd appreciate the rpm link - that should considerably simplify matters, thanks. Want to buy your