Re: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card

2002-07-24 Thread FemmeFatale
Metamorphysical wrote: > > I followed the directions and got to the program Midnight Commander but when > I went to the X11 directory there was XF86Config but no XF-Config.cfg. > Should there be one? no typo on my part sue me XF86Config-4 is what you want -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Mad

[newbie] CD Playing with home brewed SMP kernel

2002-07-24 Thread Richard Ingram
Hi, Just tried to play an audio CD and I get the following messages in my syslog and dialogue box on screen. Using Konq Services Audio CD Browser - The file or directory / does not exist, and the following message in syslog: Jul 24 23:47:30 faust modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module char-maj

Re: [newbie] Cd-rw Problem

2002-07-24 Thread civileme
Chuck Stuettgen wrote: > >I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, >X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine >under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it >using cdrecord from the command line I get the following: > >

[newbie] Cd-rw Problem

2002-07-24 Thread Chuck Stuettgen
I can't seem to get mt CD-RW to work. I've tried Gnome Toaster, X-CDRoast and GCombust. Nothing seems to work. The drive works fine under Windows 2000 and I can record without problem. When I try it using cdrecord from the command line I get the following: --

Re: [newbie] Sudden Logouts

2002-07-24 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 July 2002 3:07 am, g2 did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Switching between desktops sucks, just when i get used to KDE, that darn > sudden logouts occur. is that a known bug? or am just one of the few > lucky user to experi

Re: [newbie] beta

2002-07-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 06:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I burned the beta iso sunday night as soon as it came out > but being newbie.I was kind of wait to see if anyone is > haveing much trouble.I,ve seen a couple of notes saying > they hadn,t found but a couple of bug,s.Is there anything

Re: [newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)

2002-07-24 Thread Damian G
> This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, > you have sent me an email in the past, or you are on a list of marketers > requesting information. If this is not the case, PLEASE accept my > sincerest apologies and reply wi

[newbie] Newbie and Confused! :)

2002-07-24 Thread K. Spress Jr
I have mandrake 8.2 and I am attempting to install KDE 3.0x and Update the Kernel can some send me a message on ICQ # 19870108 and give me links and stuff i can look at that will help me I am trying to build a contact list of ICQ users that can all interact if we have problems I am a novice user :

[newbie] Sudden Logouts

2002-07-24 Thread g2
hi, I haven't fixed my KDE 3.0.2 Sudden Logouts that is why Im switching temporarily to GNOME, the problem is, I find KDE more user friendly than GNOME for example in creating shorcuts to applications, I cant seem to figure out yet how to make one in GNOME without "dragging from Nautilus", unlike

Re: [newbie] IDE PCI controller card

2002-07-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:13 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: > Hi all, was wondering if anyone has had success with an addon pci > Controller card. I want to add a CDROM drive to my set up but have no IDE > connections available. I would like to add a card but can not find anything > in "supported hard

Re: [newbie] Mandarke won't boot anymore!

2002-07-24 Thread Chuck Lalli
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 10:08 am, civileme wrote: > eric jackson wrote: > >I get this error message when I try to boot Mandrake 8.2: > > > >Ext3-fs- unable to read superblock > >mount: error 22 mounting Ext3 flags noatime > >well, retrying without the options flags > >(a repeat of line 1) > >(a r

Re: [newbie] grep search

2002-07-24 Thread civileme
Anne Wilson wrote: >Is there a way of using grep to search for a word in all directories except >those under /mnt ? > >Anne > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >

Re: [newbie] beta 9.0

2002-07-24 Thread Michael Viron
You can find the opensource release at http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/ . Michael At 04:50 PM 7/24/2002 -0400, you wrote: >On Wednesday 24 July 2002 04:21 pm, you wrote: >> Hi, I don't know if any of you out there have installed the 9.0 Beta, but I >> have, because I love to tinker with new thin

Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install, Dell laptop

2002-07-24 Thread Sharrea
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 07:26, Richard Holt wrote: > Thanks for the advise. > > Finally, insert CD#1, expert, Update, let it find the drive, go > through all the motions and back in business. > > I know there must be a way to probe for it and set it up but this > is the only way I found that works. >

Re: [newbie] How to append files to a CD-R?

2002-07-24 Thread Sharrea
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002 14:57, Damian G wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 21:53:21 -0400 > > Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 17:55:30 -0700 > > > > Josef Lowder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How can I add or append additional files to a CD-R onto which I have > > > already

Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X

2002-07-24 Thread Richard Holt
On Wednesday, 24 July 2002 12:54 pm, Warren Post wrote: > I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM > 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The > Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot > matrix drivers that are available for Star under

Re: [newbie] Sound, ethernet, & irq's

2002-07-24 Thread et
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 10:28 am, you wrote: > On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:10:14 -0400 > > Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > For some reason I cannot get my ethernet to accept any other irq except > > for 5 where my sound resides and they are definitely conflicting. I have > > g

Re: [newbie] html mail

2002-07-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 24 July 2002 05:19 pm, you wrote: > Is this still in html format or did I change it correctly > > > - Original Message - > > From: "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Metamorphysical" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:16 PM > > Subject: Re: Video car

[newbie] beta

2002-07-24 Thread jbarron201
I burned the beta iso sunday night as soon as it came out but being newbie.I was kind of wait to see if anyone is haveing much trouble.I,ve seen a couple of notes saying they hadn,t found but a couple of bug,s.Is there anything major? JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] T1 line

2002-07-24 Thread William R. Nash
Hello,     I was wondering if there was a way to make a t1 line multilink to increase it bandwidth.  I have some information on this but still do not know how to do it.  Thanks For any help.   Bill Nash

Re: [newbie] html mail

2002-07-24 Thread robin
Metamorphysical wrote: >Is this still in html format or did I change it correctly > It's plain text. -- "There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't" - thinkgeek.com Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Üniversitesi Ankara 06533 http://www.bilkent.ed

Re:[newbie] Make ISO WAS: Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread D. Olson
Yeah, I know that there are some howtos already, but my main goal is to make my own collection of tutorials on my site for newbies to be able to follow simply. No extra stuff, just the info they need. That's my goal. I think that the dd command line is what I was after. Thanks a lot! On Wedn

Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid Card

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
> > Well I know Geforce 4 will install since here is a thread of people who > > have > > > done it > > http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=2718&highlight=geforce > > > > So when you ran XFdrake did it allow you to see a test screen, or did it > > give > > > some kind of error. > > Came

[newbie] html mail

2002-07-24 Thread Metamorphysical
Is this still in html format or did I change it correctly > - Original Message - > From: "D. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Metamorphysical" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 2:16 PM > Subject: Re: Video card problem > > > > Ooo... That's not good. > > > > Are you u

Re: [newbie] Fwd: RUSSELL PAVLICEK: "The Open Source" from InfoWorld.com, Wednesday, July 24, 2002

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
> PONDERING PALLADIUM > > Posted July 19, 2002 01:01 PM Pacific Time > BIG SNIP> > Will Palladium be a security dream or a nightmare > invasion? Let us know what you think at > http://www.infoworld.com/os , or drop Russell a line > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > - -- > Hiroshima '45, Chernobyl '86, Wi

Re: [newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-24 Thread civileme
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: >Here's a recent response from WD concerning their drives and Linux or UNIX. >Take it for what it's worth. > > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.

[newbie] beta 9.0

2002-07-24 Thread John Michael Drouhard
Hi, I don't know if any of you out there have installed the 9.0 Beta, but I have, because I love to tinker with new things. I thought I might be a beta tester. Anyway, does anyone know why tuxracer did not come with the beta? That is one of my fav games. Thanks, John Drouhard P.S. from what

[newbie] grep search

2002-07-24 Thread Anne Wilson
Is there a way of using grep to search for a word in all directories except those under /mnt ? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > Oh Derek, thank you so much, up until now I simply accepted what ever > diskdrake installed automatically. > > Of course It was the screen resolution, rather than drive choice. > > I chose, > > generic monitor 1280x1024 @ 60 Hz, > > Now it may be that the monitor is capable of a higher fre

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings]

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 17:27:04 +0100 From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

[newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X

2002-07-24 Thread Warren Post
I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under CUPS. What I get when I try to print a test page is a single

Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: >SNIP > > >># ** >># Monitor section >># ** >> >># Any number of monitor sections may be present >> >>Section "Monitor" >>Identifier

RE: [newbie] Re:Gif etc conversions

2002-07-24 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
>On Wednesday 24 July 2002 8:06 am, Tibbetts, Ric did speak unto the huddled >masses, saying: > >> Why not just use "convert"? It's part of Imagemagic, and it's already >> installed. > >in linux it is installed, but not windows. > >why post to a linux list about windows programs? the world may n

Re: [newbie] Re:Gif etc conversions

2002-07-24 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 24 July 2002 8:06 am, Tibbetts, Ric did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > Why not just use "convert"? It's part of Imagemagic, and it's already > installed. in linux it is installed, but not windows. why post to a linux list ab

RE: [newbie] Email for root crons

2002-07-24 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
I'm coming in on this late, so this may have been suggested already. But, what I do is alias roots mail to mine in /etc/alias. Then anything that would normally go to root, goes to my account. Hope that helps. Ric -Original Message- From: Alan Carbutt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: F

RE: [newbie] Re:Gif etc conversions

2002-07-24 Thread Tibbetts, Ric
Why not just use "convert"? It's part of Imagemagic, and it's already installed. Just my .02p I seem to have lots of .02's today. ;) Ric -Original Message- From: John Rigby [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Re:Gif

Re: [newbie] I have an opportunity...

2002-07-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 July 2002 06:40 pm, you wrote: > The other option of course is to have a relatively nice server, and run the > 486's as Terminals off of it via the ltsp project. > > The url is http://www.k12ltsp.org if you wanted to try that out. > > Several groups have done that -- I think they are

Re: [newbie] Email for root crons

2002-07-24 Thread Alan Carbutt
I ended up sending all of root's mail to another local user. Just a workaround for now. Thanks to all for the help received. Paul wrote: > In reply to Alan's mail, d.d. Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:40:11 -0600: > > Very strange. Works fine for me. The only extra I have at the top of root's > crontab

Re: [newbie] Sound, ethernet, & irq's

2002-07-24 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:10:14 -0400 Marcia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > For some reason I cannot get my ethernet to accept any other irq except for 5 > where my sound resides and they are definitely conflicting. I have gone into > the bios as suggested and turned off power managem

Re: [newbie] Mandarke won't boot anymore!

2002-07-24 Thread eric jackson
> > > >I tried to reinstall and I got to this screen: > > > >Choose the petitions you want to format > > > >hda 1{C:} (15MB, /mnt/win_Dos Fat16 > >hda 2 {D} (12 GB, /mnt/Win-2, Win98, Fat32, LBA-mapped > > > >The options below are preselected > > > >(400MB, /Journalised FS: Ext 3) > >(50MB, Swap L

Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid Card

2002-07-24 Thread Metamorphysical
oops sorry about the html wasn't thinking and thanks for the info on the XFdrake I'm gonna try it now - Original Message - From: "Derek Jennings" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:26 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Continuing problems installing New Vid

Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
SNIP > # ** > # Monitor section > # ** > > # Any number of monitor sections may be present > > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Generic|High Frequency SVGA, 10

[newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 2)

2002-07-24 Thread Graham Watkins
And here's the secondpart. Original Message Subject: [newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 2) Date: 25 Jun 2002 03:39:17 -0400 From: Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: NewbieMandrake-List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In the previous email to this

Re: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday July 23 2002 06:30 pm, Barry Michels wrote: > I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't > need to use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then > the following disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I > ended up with 7 good discs and 4

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, > I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to > use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following > disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good > discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes made to the com

Re[2]: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey, >cdrecord: fifo had 11671 puts and 11608 gets. >cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 11400 times full, min fill was >85%. >>Well, as long as the FIFO doesn't go empty I don't think you need to >>worry about anything. The CD-RW has a buffer of its own, so I assume >>if FIFO runs

[newbie] Pauses with FTP and POP services

2002-07-24 Thread Scott
I have a new Mdk 8.2 server that is handling FTP and POP 3 services, the initial connect takes a very long time, up to a minute. Once the connection is made it is super fast, but it is the connection that is taking forever. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to tweak it? Run

Re: [newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: > > >> >>Mandrake Control Centre - Hardware - X Display , >>comes up, >> >>1024x768 16million colours (24bits) >> >>now I can reset here to either, >> >>1024x768 4billion colours (32bits) >>or better still, >>1280x1024 4billion colours (32bits), >> >>bo

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card

2002-07-24 Thread Metamorphysical
I followed the directions and got to the program Midnight Commander but when I went to the X11 directory there was XF86Config but no XF-Config.cfg. Should there be one? - Original Message - From: "FemmeFatale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 8:01 PM

Re: [newbie] I have an opportunity...

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
> > > >Love to help Mandrake Linux get another foothold somewhere locally where a >lot of people would be exposed to it. We are doing this voluntarily (no pay). > >Thanks much guys! > > Just as an aside I've just spend 5 days trying to convince my local authority, Milton Keynes Council , that

[newbie] Re: XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 11:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > I have nvidia geforce3 graphics card. > > My windblows screen resolutions are always better, and this is because I > can set a far higher screen resolution which windblows adopts and holds. > > Mandrake can test a better screen resolut

Re: [newbie] Command line burning

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Barry Michels wrote: >I have some ISO files (a downloaded Linux distribution), so I don't need to >use mkisofs. However, during burning, I get a coaster, then the following >disc is ok. The next one is a coaster, then ok. I ended up with 7 good >discs and 4 coasters. There were no changes mad

[newbie] XDisplay Screen Settings

2002-07-24 Thread John Richard Smith
I have nvidia geforce3 graphics card. My windblows screen resolutions are always better, and this is because I can set a far higher screen resolution which windblows adopts and holds. Mandrake can test a better screen resolution , but something always resets the screen resolution backwards to

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

2002-07-24 Thread Graham Watkins
I'd saved these intending to investigate further at some point. It can't hurt to repost them for those who are interested. Original Message Subject: [newbie] Recording Net-Radio Broadcasts (Chpt 1) Date: 24 Jun 2002 21:51:42 -0400 From: Lyvim Xaphir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-T

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing New Vid Card

2002-07-24 Thread Ross Pearson
> PLEASE, I'm slow at getting the hang of Mandrake so explain this to me like > a 5 year old. > I just bought a GeForce4 Ti4400 and I need help on installing the > drivers(RPM's?) from a command prompt. > The Users guide says it supports Linux but I can't figure out how to install > the rpm's. >

[newbie] WD drives and Linux/UNIX

2002-07-24 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Here's a recent response from WD concerning their drives and Linux or UNIX. Take it for what it's worth. -- Jonathan Dlouhy Tuesday, July 24, 2002 Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake Linux 8.1 Email Subject

Re: [newbie] Recording Real Streams

2002-07-24 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 5:11 am, Miark wrote: > In the past several months, one or two people offered a > clever and simple way to record RealAudio streams. It may > have included wget--I'm not sure. > > Ring any bells? > > Miark Yep. Search the archives for a thread called Recording Net-Radio B