RE: [newbie] perl question

2002-07-13 Thread Franki
There is something wrong with the standard settings in /etc/httpd/comnf/httpd.conf (or commonhttpd.conf) Check this bit: AllowOverride All Options ExecCgi That might be the one that fixes it. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[newbie] perl question

2002-07-13 Thread freeman
I have currently just installed the newset version of mandrake on my machine and I am having so problems getting it to run. no matter what I do it tells me Forbidden You don't have permission to access /cgi-bin/search.cgi on this server. am I missing a step I have checked all the rights on t

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Miark
Michael, See http://xbox-linux.sourceforge.net/ Also not that someone will dump $100,000 into the project each time the porting team completes each of two tasks. You'd think there are better place to dump $200,000 into the Linux community. Odd. Miark Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> saith:

Re: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86]

2002-07-13 Thread DreemWizard
Praise Jesus...there is a God and many helpers out there Thank you guys sooo much I got Linux working just great with my Video card woo hooo...off to play some quake 3...laters!! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 12:34, Rick Henderson wrote: > On Saturday 13 July 2002 09:08 pm, magnet wrote: > > > Do this all the time every place I go, "yes, thats great - but does it > > > > work > > > > > under Linux?"... > > > > > > -- > > > > /\ > > > > Dark> > > > \/ > > > > > > > > If you are ev

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 14 Jul 2002 05:40, Randy Kramer wrote: > Alastair Scott wrote: > > iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. > > Absolutely, and I'm rather annoyed that he doesn't provide an email > address to allow feedback. I guess I could search on the web, but why > should I have

Re: [newbie] X Font Server fails

2002-07-13 Thread Damian G
On 13 Jul 2002 21:43:57 -0600 Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My X Font Server occasionally goes crazy and X sucks up all available > CPU cycles forever. The only fix I've found is to reboot, horrors. Upon > shutdown the first thing I see is that an orderly shutdown of the X Font > Serve

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Miark wrote: > I have to move in a couple months and was looking for new > work when I came across a job for a network admin. I'm not > really interesting in the job, but the description mentioned > that it was a Windows network that will soon be upgraded "to > Windows 2000 or Windows XP". > > I

[newbie] Crashed new system!

2002-07-13 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I decided to try to tweak my video display last night and ended up not being able to get back into LM8.2. I tried to work with files through console because I was able to at least get to a console but nothing was working. I really do not know what video driver I should use for my bra

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 13 July 2002 03:57 pm, you wrote: > I plan to start a new "hobby" -- whenever I'm at a computer show or > store, I'm going to go around and ask about different products saying -- > "does that have a driver for Linux". > > I'll try not to become too well known, or the vendors will see "

Re: [newbie] launching apps from terminal

2002-07-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:51 am, you wrote: > Not quite true. The application should launch as a detached process. > Just tried ogle from gnome-terminal and it stayed put when the xterm > closed down. The terminal window will display messages from the > application while it exists - don't kno

Re: [newbie] Memtest

2002-07-13 Thread civileme
poogle wrote: >The scenario, my Partner's standalone PC at work regularly crashing in Win 95, >the solution I suggested was that I would install Mandrake, solution accepted >and project complete. >Day 1 - complete freeze while left unattended, no response to any key or >mouse, clock showing the

Re: [newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Miark
I do that on occasion too. I have to move in a couple months and was looking for new work when I came across a job for a network admin. I'm not really interesting in the job, but the description mentioned that it was a Windows network that will soon be upgraded "to Windows 2000 or Windows XP".

[newbie] New Hobby

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
I plan to start a new "hobby" -- whenever I'm at a computer show or store, I'm going to go around and ask about different products saying -- "does that have a driver for Linux". I'll try not to become too well known, or the vendors will see "that one nut who asks about Linux drivers". (I'll try

Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:51 +0100 Daryl Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's taken me 4 weeks of fairly constant tinkering, adjustment and > experimentation to arrive at the conclusion that it is impossible to > configure my sound card - which seems remarkable as in most ways it is > get

Re: [newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread civileme
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >well, i decided to go ahead and install Mandrake8.2 .. on several >computers.. just for the hell of it. > >(what can i say. its been a slow week) > >Anyway. My main problem is NO SOUND. >none, what so ever. Nada. Zip. > >(that and everything connected to my

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread DreemWizard
In a message dated 7/13/2002 4:19:42 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, D. Olson wrote: > On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: > > Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake > > 8.2? > > > There is a tutorial on http

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread Ross Pearson
> Hey Ross, > Is there anyway that you can just send me ur XF86 config file? > I mean I dont know if that will really help me out..but I have tried > everything and this is very frustrating...I cant get the drivers to work > right... > > Its weird because it never gave me a choice on what vers

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread Miark
> Just out of interest, I'd be interested to learn what frame rates other > Geforce 4 users are getting with glxgears. I get ~4300 FPS from a Geforce > 4 Ti4400. 2109.000 FPS is what I got on my GeForce 4 MX (Athlon 1.1GHz). Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to ht

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

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Eric Jackson wrote: > I saw that Suse had an evaluation disk that you can download and try. It > writes 3 or 4 files to your hard drive but it doesn't do any partioning. > When I tried that, it was fine. I had a working evaluation setup on my > computer. Because of that, I bought Suse 8.0. It inst

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
tom brinkman wrote: > The article takes most things from a 'the situation is an OS > fault, then hardware, then user' approach. Unfortunately most users > (any OS) do also. > >I've found when situations are approached just the opposite as most > likely a user, then maybe hardware, and las

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread Randy Kramer
Alastair Scott wrote: > iv. 9 is resolved by nedit, which he evidently isn't aware of. Absolutely, and I'm rather annoyed that he doesn't provide an email address to allow feedback. I guess I could search on the web, but why should I have to. Randy Kramer (Guess I'm cranky today. ;-) Want t

[newbie] Memtest

2002-07-13 Thread poogle
The scenario, my Partner's standalone PC at work regularly crashing in Win 95, the solution I suggested was that I would install Mandrake, solution accepted and project complete. Day 1 - complete freeze while left unattended, no response to any key or mouse, clock showing the wrong time (the tim

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread DreemWizard
In a message dated 7/13/2002 3:03:15 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: > Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake > 8.2? There is a tutorial on http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ that walks you through install

Re: [newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread Nelson Bartley
How Goes? I can pretty much tell you 8.2 is a waste of time on that type of setup. I've got a similar setup, except for the MSI equiv components and using 8.2 on them was a disaster in progress. I'd recommend 2 things in your current position, either a) use the 1 month old Cooker Snapshot CD's b

Re: [newbie][was:] subscribe

2002-07-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 11:46:53 +0200 (CEST) Fatma Litimein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >subscribe newbie See http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3 to subscribe, note the address and have fun :) -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www

Re: [newbie] problems with /etc/fstab

2002-07-13 Thread Terry Sheltra
Guess it would be somewhat beneficial to include something like that, wouldn't it? :-) Here is my /etc/fstab file (the names have been changed to protect the innocent .. ): - /dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 1 1 - none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 - none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 - /dev/hda6 /home

Re: [newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The sound card is a Creative Audigy platinum... (if anyone could give me > ANY help in getting ANY sound out of this, i'd apreciate it. I don't think there's a driver for that card at this point. Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandra

Re: [newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread robin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >well, i decided to go ahead and install Mandrake8.2 .. on several >computers.. just for the hell of it. > >(what can i say. its been a slow week) > >Anyway. My main problem is NO SOUND. >none, what so ever. Nada. Zip. > Obvious answer, but did you try sndco

[newbie] No Sound. No Drivers. No Luck

2002-07-13 Thread golden1uk
well, i decided to go ahead and install Mandrake8.2 .. on several computers.. just for the hell of it. (what can i say. its been a slow week) Anyway. My main problem is NO SOUND. none, what so ever. Nada. Zip. (that and everything connected to my southbridge... not being recogni

Re: [newbie] [was:] Machine check Exception

2002-07-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002 12:15:47 +0200 (CEST) Fatma Litimein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Linux users: > I have installed linux Mandrake (version7.2), in witch the charged > system is hda. This lasted one contains the fllowing partitions: > file system: 1k-blocksuse%

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread iceburgh69
Sad part is, they'll likely be all OS issues. SeaWolvn1 week he'll publish a "1 Things Wrong with Windows" article ?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSof

Re: [newbie] new install success .... But 2 simple question

2002-07-13 Thread Ron Bouwhuis
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > - I have also been trying to use msn messanger > threw samba sharing to a >couple of windows machines. the chatting works > fine but if you try to >use voice or video instead of typing it does not > work? > > If you have any ideas or can direct me to wher

RE: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, Klar Brian D Contr MSG/SICN wrote: > For DVD playback, I prefer Ogle instead of Xine. > Xine can read a lot of different formats, but Ogle > for me plays DVD's better. You may want to look at > Mplayer even, though I find it a real pain. Ogle worked great! Thanks Brian and

Re: [newbie] DVD in 8.2

2002-07-13 Thread Roger Sherman
On Fri, 12 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: > Roger Sherman wrote: > > >Is Xine the preferred DVD viewing app? I just tried watching a DVD in 8.2 > >for the first time (actually, I've never viewed a DVD in any previous > >Mandrake, or linux, for that matter...), and watching it in Xine crashed > >X.

Re: [newbie] Ten Things Wrong with Linux

2002-07-13 Thread robin
I think Tom and Adam (the author of the article) come from different computing cultures, and I can appreciate both of them. Tom's culture places the onus on the user; Adam's places it on the developer. Personally, I wouldn't want Open Source development to go too far in either direction. Id

Re: [newbie] Sound

2002-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 13 Jul 2002 6:02 am, you wrote: > > and onboard video. Everything worked right away including the the network > > card, except for some sound. I can play a music CD with no problem and > > here > > Marcia - hey great that you got a new computer :). It's faster than > mine :(. > > Anywa

Re: [newbie] xmms for CD

2002-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
This is long-winded, but it works - Start XMMS Right click on it - choose Options > Prefs > Audio I/O plugins > Audio CD Reader > Configure > Options > Add CD to playlist. If you haven't got Audio CD Reader you need to Install the rpm xmms-cdread from the Mandrake discs. Open xmms and get to

Re: [newbie] Sound Is Impossible

2002-07-13 Thread Anne Wilson
FWIW, I've had no problems with my Audigy since I changed the Sound IO method to OSS - it was on auto before and I had a lot of problems Anne On Friday 12 Jul 2002 10:44 pm, you wrote: > July 12, 2002 02:55 am, Daryl Johnson wrote: > > > As far as I know Daryl, the only drivers that work for

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2002-07-13 Thread Fatma Litimein
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2002-07-13 Thread Fatma Litimein
Dear Linux users:I have installed linux Mandrake (version7.2), in witch the charged system is hda. This lasted one contains the fllowing partitions:file system:   1k-blocks    use%    Mounted on /dev/hda6   4870252   36%   //dev/hda1 14323968 

Re: [newbie] three questions

2002-07-13 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 13 July 2002 2:08 am, Stephen Britton wrote: > 2.) How do I edit the shutdown script so I don't see "KillAll" > [failed] on the Mandrake shutdown screen when I turn the box off. I > have been running this Mandrake PC for a month and it

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread Ross Pearson
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, D. Olson wrote: > On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: > > Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake > > 8.2? > > > There is a tutorial on http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ that walks you through > installing the drivers for 3D. The lateset

Re: [newbie] NVidia 4 video card and XF86

2002-07-13 Thread D. Olson
On Saturday 13 July 2002 01:34 am, you wrote: > Has anyone had any probs trying to get an Nvidia card working under Drake > 8.2? There is a tutorial on http://mdkxp.by-a.com/ that walks you through installing the drivers for 3D. Worked every time for me. -- D. Olson The Mandrake eXPerience h

[newbie] IceWM problem.

2002-07-13 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I wanted to set an image on the background of of iceWM, but I can't seem to do it.. I have Icepref working, and go to the background section of it.. but I tried it as a bmp, a jpg and a pix and none of them work, I get this when icewm loads. IceWM: Warning: Loading of pixmap "/home/fra

RE: [newbie] three questions

2002-07-13 Thread Franki
3.) How do I edit Apache so I can run Perl CGI scripts on my box. I am using the Mandrake default Apache set-up and I cannot seem to get CGI scripts to work. I have tried using the scripts in the cgi-bin and elsewhere and I keep getting an error message like the 403 error below. This problem is