[newbie] Palm m500 and JPilot

2002-07-27 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Hello, I've got a Palm m500 and am making no headway with pilot-link or JPilot. This is Mandrake 8.1, btw. What device should my Palm be? It sits in a USB cradle. Anything at all would help. Please help get me started or tell me where to RTFM. I'm using JPilot version 99.1 and pilot-link

[newbie] Unexplained Memory Loss

2002-07-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Recently we have had the unexplained problem of memory loss on this list. Probably not relevant to that occassion. I have noticed over the couple of years that where I have had both Mandrake and Windblows on the same computer a not dissimilar unexplained memory loss which I found by accident

[newbie] internet sharing

2002-07-27 Thread freeman
I am using my mandrake machine with the default internet sharing capability to share my high speed connection with a couple of windows xp machines and was wondering how I could open a port up for another applications. I think it was port 3620 or something. regards Mike

[newbie] gnomemeeting in PPC

2002-07-27 Thread Fernando
Subject: gnomemeeting Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 12:22:05 +0100 From: Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am trying to use gnomemeeting in Mandrake 8.2 ppc, and all works fine except for the fact that the video at the receiving end (and only at the receiving end) seems to be

Re: [newbie] internet sharing

2002-07-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 12:13 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using my mandrake machine with the default internet sharing capability to share my high speed connection with a couple of windows xp machines and was wondering how I could open a port up for another applications. I think it was

Re: [newbie] mandrake-linux-compatibility-test-version-CD

2002-07-27 Thread Patrik Marxer
Thank you all, so there is a Mandrake live distrbution (I didn't know the expression, so I could not do a search on this - sorry). I am going to try it when I buy something new. Patrik On Saturday 27 July 2002 00:41, shane wrote: On Friday 26 July 2002 2:19 pm, Patrik Marxer did speak unto

[newbie] Network Problems Re-Stated

2002-07-27 Thread C.Anne Wilson
Unfortunately the improvement was *very* shortlived. I downloaded a file for use elsewhere, started to copy it to FD, it crashed and was unrecoverable. New start, then. I've re-installed, and have things almost back to where they were. Win98 clients can see my shared directories. [homes]

Re: [newbie] Network Problems Re-Stated

2002-07-27 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 1:28 pm, C.Anne Wilson wrote: Unfortunately the improvement was *very* shortlived. I downloaded a file for use elsewhere, started to copy it to FD, it crashed and was unrecoverable. New start, then. I've re-installed, and have things almost back to where they

Re: [newbie] USB Interface failed

2002-07-27 Thread K. Spress Jr
I am thinking maybe a USB to PS2 Adapter might be a good idea until you get the mandrake USB Fixed.. but I do not use USB.. so.. Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == This is not a spam! Your are receiving this email either because, you have

[newbie] proFTPd

2002-07-27 Thread LtCdData
HI i have proFTPd running but cant seem to find out how to get some info back from it eg. is anyone connected to it where are they connected what files are they uploading / downloading what progress are they at on the upload / download i have run ftp servers on other operating systems before

[newbie] Here we go again...

2002-07-27 Thread Derek Byram
Hello list, OK, I had a problem whereby after loading 8.2 onto my XP machine from downloaded disks that strange things happened which I detailed in a previous posting included below. At this time I did not include all errors but have this time hoping they may be connected. Previously,

[newbie] USB Interface failed

2002-07-27 Thread Metamorphysical
I just recently booted into linux and while it is checking things it comes up saying this now Failed to load USB Interface (usb-ohci) Haven't changed anything. Unfortunately my mouse runs from the usb port. Should I look up a log file somewheres to find out what happened? Want to buy your

[newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread jbarron201
I ask about the bugs in the beta then had to leave town for a few days but did have time to wonder since I,m useing 8.2 can I do a upgrade booting from the CD-ROM are is it better to do a clean install. JOE Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread K. Spress Jr
IMO.. I think doing a clean fresh install would be the better way to go.. :) Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == 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

[newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx as [root@localhost libmovtar-0.1.3]# ./configure --with-jpeg-mmx=/root/jpeg-mmx All went ok but for sdl. For SDL I got

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp resource busy

2002-07-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Friday 26 Jul 2002 8:35 am, civileme wrote: john m. drouhard wrote: I have sound working. (Sort of). All of the KDE sounds work ok. But xmms fails saying that /dev/dsp cannot be opened because the device or resource is busy. I have a K7S5A motherboard with a 1 GHz Duron. I am using my

[newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Thread Scott
In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp .20mm for $190 Anyone know anything about it? Thanks,

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 July 2002 11:35 am, Scott wrote: In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz dp

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Thread Derek Byram
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking at a Samsung 96 BDF 19 screen Res 1600x 1200 refresh 65Hz

[newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 There've been various remarks from civileme and others suggesting (as I remember) that you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3 to get a version that'll run on 486s. But I note that, in the /Mandrake-iso/i586 directory of mirrors, there's a

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Thread Scott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:45 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors. Is this because compatibility is not generally an issue with monitors? Any brand will work? I'm looking at a

[newbie] 8.2 won't install

2002-07-27 Thread Erylon Hines
I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in another post) on 3 of my machines, but it refuses to work on a fourth. This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of ram, onboard Adaptec 78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin wide and 68 pin ultra-wide connectors), 9 gig

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Thread Erylon Hines
Yes, it is. I've used it on P75 and P90 machines, too. It has worked really well for me on the old Pentiums. e. On Saturday 27 July 2002 10:52, Alastair Scott wrote: There've been various remarks from civileme and others suggesting (as I remember) that you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3

Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx as [root@localhost libmovtar-0.1.3]# ./configure

Re: [newbie] MD compatible monitors

2002-07-27 Thread Scott
On Saturday 27 July 2002 02:27 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Saturday 27 July 2002 12:45 pm, you wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes In mandrake's compatible hardware database they do not list monitors.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Alastair Scott wrote: There've been various remarks from civileme and others suggesting (as I remember) that you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3 to get a version that'll run on 486s. But I note that, in the /Mandrake-iso/i586 directory of mirrors, there's a mandrake70-2.i486.iso

Re: [newbie] 8.2 won't install

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Erylon Hines wrote: I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in another post) on 3 of my machines, but it refuses to work on a fourth. This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of ram, onboard Adaptec 78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin wide and 68 pin ultra-wide

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday July 27 2002 10:02 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ask about the bugs in the beta then had to leave town for a few days but did have time to wonder since I,m useing 8.2 can I do a upgrade booting from the CD-ROM are is it better to do a clean install. JOE A fresh install is

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Alastair Scott
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: A fresh install is always the better option, often less time consumming and better results than a (theoretically maybe possible) upgrade. 'Sides, it's probly time to do some house cleanin

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 for 486 machines?

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
Alan Shoemaker wrote: Alastair Scott wrote: There've been various remarks from civileme and others suggesting (as I remember) that you have to go back to Mandrake 5.3 to get a version that'll run on 486s. But I note that, in the /Mandrake-iso/i586 directory of mirrors, there's a

Re: [newbie] 8.2 won't install

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
Erylon Hines wrote: I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in another post) on 3 of my machines, but it refuses to work on a fourth. This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of ram, onboard Adaptec 78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin wide and 68 pin ultra-wide

[newbie] Re: USB Interface failed

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
Well, it is quite likely that you have a Tyan Thunder with athlon MP processors or any of several models of Gateway with an AMD Irongate Chipset. Something about those ohci USB-interfaces is different from the defined ohci, and it simply doesn't work with the standard kernel driver.

Re: [newbie] Palm m500 and JPilot

2002-07-27 Thread Terry Smith
Jonathan, Dan, I haven't mucked with this much in a couple of months but I got my USB Handspring Visor working 'sort of' under Linux (RH 7.2 I believe). I had to recompile the kernel to get USB-Serial support. It was not easy and it didn't work very well. Maybe the newer distros have better USB

Re: [newbie] upgradeing to 9.0 beta

2002-07-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday July 27 2002 02:14 pm, Alastair Scott wrote: On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 7:55 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Cooker/9.0 is very dynamic now (ie, beta2 [current cooker] isn't compatible with 9.0beta1). Many gcc (- 3.2) and lib changes. I'd say only a fresh install is feasible. Further,

Re: [newbie] Palm m500 and JPilot

2002-07-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Hello, I've got a Palm m500 and am making no headway with pilot-link or JPilot. This is Mandrake 8.1, btw. What device should my Palm be? It sits in a USB cradle. Anything at all would help. Please help get me started or tell me where to RTFM. I'm using JPilot version

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-27 Thread Warren Post
That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? 2. Can the U.S. International keyboard driver make an upside down question mark and upside down exclamation

[newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Warren Post
I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not appear in the start menus. I've tried editing

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many items. All items are visible in menudrake, but they do not

Re: [newbie] OT: Congress hacking P2P to stop music piracy

2002-07-27 Thread civileme
Charlie wrote: July 27, 2002 04:09 pm, Zlatko Savic wrote: Ah man, it's bad enough that we must watch out for crackers and script kiddies who want to get into our computers and now the Congress will use the same tools to stop people trade files. Don't believe me? Read below: California

Re: [newbie] Menus damaged when KDE removed

2002-07-27 Thread Warren Post
El sáb, 27-07-2002 a las 19:57, Dennis Myers escribió: On Saturday 27 July 2002 08:32 pm, you wrote: I installed Gnome and removed KDE, leaving alone my various other windows managers (Blackbox, IceWM, etc.). Fine, but now the start menus in my various windows managers are missing many

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-27 Thread Richard Holt
Hi Warren, ¡Por supuesto! I usually have to experiment, but AltGr-Shift-! = ¡ I find it much simpler than swapping keyboards. saludos, Richard. On Saturday, 27 July 2002 09:31 pm, Warren Post wrote: That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through

[newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-27 Thread K. Spress Jr
How do i download the new version of KDE and install it in Mandrake 8.2? Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] == 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

Re: [newbie] Diacritical marks (accents)

2002-07-27 Thread Richard Holt
Warren, On Saturday, 27 July 2002 09:31 pm, Warren Post wrote: That is just what I need; thanks! Two questions: 1. I can set the keyboard driver through the Mandrake Control Center, but it doesn't keep on reboot. How can I make the change permanent? Forgot this one. I've never had a

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.0

2002-07-27 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 27 July 2002 10:44 pm, K. Spress Jr wrote: How do i download the new version of KDE and install it in Mandrake 8.2? Kenneth Spress [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kenneth: With care and diligence. I'd start by looking through the newbie archives at

Re: [newbie] /dev/dsp resource busy

2002-07-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 1:59 am, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 27 Jul 2002 4:30 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 26 Jul 2002 8:35 am, civileme wrote: john m. drouhard wrote: I have sound working. (Sort of). All of the KDE sounds work ok. But xmms fails saying that /dev/dsp cannot be

Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 12:08 am, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed first. As a pre-requisite, I was configuring libmovtar after compiling jpeg-mmx

Re: [newbie] Audio Streaming

2002-07-27 Thread dfox
Can any of you recommend me any streaming audio server?. I have a radio station and I want to stream it via Internet. http://www.iceast.org . I haven't personally tried it. Shoutcast and live365 are other possibilities, but am not sure if they offer linux capable streamers - it may not even

Re: [newbie] SDL recognition problem

2002-07-27 Thread Damian G
On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 09:35:07 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 12:08 am, Damian G wrote: On Sat, 27 Jul 2002 20:56:22 +0530 L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanted to reinstall mjpegtools..For this jpeg-mmx and libmovtar needs to be installed