[newbie] Mirrorlist

2002-09-06 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Does anybody know the web page for the updates mirror list? It should be something like www.linux-mandrake.com/mirrorsfull.list but it does not exist. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is

[newbie] easiest MLM to setup...

2002-09-06 Thread Franki
Hi guys, Whats the easiest MLM (mailing list manager) with Mandrake? I have used minorfish/minordomo in the the past with success, but I don't need the hassles of that fiddly an install. I was hoping for an rpm i install and then change a couple of lines in a config somewhere and off we go..

Re: [newbie] CD wont load on boot

2002-09-06 Thread John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey im trying to reinstall mandake 8.2 and when i put cd in then turn off computer then turn it back on the cd doesnt load when the comp boots...how can i fix this so i can reinstall linux? Most likely you don't have bios set to load from cd as first boot device.

Re: [newbie] CD wont load on boot

2002-09-06 Thread John Richard Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey im trying to reinstall mandake 8.2 and when i put cd in then turn off computer then turn it back on the cd doesnt load when the comp boots...how can i fix this so i can reinstall linux? Most likely you don't have bios set to load from cd as first boot device.

Re: [newbie] easiest MLM to setup...

2002-09-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 15:25:54 +0800 Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, Whats the easiest MLM (mailing list manager) with Mandrake? I have used minorfish/minordomo in the the past with success, but I don't need the hassles of that fiddly an install. I was hoping for an rpm i

Re: [newbie] X11 static libs

2002-09-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 22:25:52 -0700 Mike Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I needed to link an X application statically, and it failed because it couldn't find libX11.a, libXext.a and libXi.a. You need to install the package XFree86-static-libs-4.2.0 This package is not installed by default.

[newbie] gfx card driver question

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
Hi all. I just checked on www.europe.creative.com for a linux driver for their gfx card: 3D Blaster 4 Titanium 4400 and it came back blank, no drivers available. Am I correct in assuming this card can use nVidia drivers ok on Linux and if so, can anyone suggest how they got this card to work

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Peregrinf
Nope. I meant it to go to the list but must have had the wrong box checked in Pegasus. I'll take care of it here and now, in fact. The only correction I want to make is that installing the LAN card was unnecessary, once I found the built in ethernet port on the back of the box. It was hiding

[newbie] Controlling visual bell

2002-09-06 Thread Davor Cengija
How can I control the visual bell? Say, the length of the flash, the 'silence period' between two flashes etc? By silence period I mean the time after the flash in which no new flash occures. Say, when I'm in terminal window and press backspace 10 times in 2 seconds, only one flash occurs, and

[newbie] RPM Questions

2002-09-06 Thread Langsley T Russell
Is there any advantage to using RPMs to install applications other than the presumed ease of installation? Is there any difference in the installed product and how well it integrates into Mandrake? Whenever I see RPMs offered they invariably specify that they are for Red Hat specifically and

Re: [newbie] RPM Questions

2002-09-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 3:11 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Is there any advantage to using RPMs to install applications other than the presumed ease of installation? Is there any difference in the installed product and how well it integrates into Mandrake? Whenever I see RPMs offered they

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread dh
On Friday 06 September 2002 06:10 am, Peregrinf wrote: snip--- I do miss a couple of my Windoze apps -- notably Pegasus for e-mail and PaintShop Pro. I may spring for Crossover Office so I can use You might want to check out win4lin (if you already own win 98 etc.)

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread dh
On Friday 06 September 2002 06:10 am, Peregrinf wrote: -snip-- On 5 Sep 2002, at 22:06, ed tharp wrote: Mind if I repost this to the list? snip Well, here's a pocket review of my WalMart box, for what it's worth. I got the 1.3GHz Celeron with 256mb

[newbie] how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE.

2002-09-06 Thread rhp.mac
hi, I install mandrake 8.2 and I can't open KDE interface. how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE. thanks for all help. rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE

2002-09-06 Thread rhp.mac
hi, I install mandrake 8.2 and I can't open KDE interface. how May I install X-WINDOWS to use KDE. thanks for all help. rhp Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Sorry

2002-09-06 Thread dh
I apologize to those on the list who have been recieving double replies from me, I have 3 mailing lists in the same folder so I can't set up Reply to list in kmail. I thought I was replying to the list but I was also sending to the originator as well. In the future I'll try to be more

[newbie] Mandrake 7.2 to 8.1 update ?

2002-09-06 Thread Bernard Victor
I had Mandrake 7.2 running and working pretty well, but got a copy of 8.2 and decided to update. However I found I had lost a lot of my settings. I no longer had read/write access to my Windows partition except as root. Wine would not work, and the Wine conf file seemed to have been moved, so my

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Sep 2002 3:30 pm, you wrote: I On Friday 06 September 2002 06:10 am, Peregrinf wrote: snip--- I do miss a couple of my Windoze apps -- notably Pegasus for e-mail and PaintShop Pro. I may spring for Crossover Office so I can use You might want to

[newbie] How to verify installation CD-R integrity? 9.0 rc1 Installation woes (Try #2)

2002-09-06 Thread yiupun
I tried Tom's suggestion and tried installing from the CD-RW drive (which was used to burn the CD-R), and still got the same error. I'm reasonably confident that the ISO image I downloaded was ok (I checked the md5sum). Is there any tools on Windows that will allow me to verify that the CD-R

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread dh
On Friday 06 September 2002 09:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Sep 2002 3:30 pm, you wrote: ---snip- You might want to check out win4lin (if you already own win 98 etc.) they currently have a great deal ($49.00). http://www.netraverse.com/

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 3:39 pm, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Magnet, Use this link http://mdkxp.by-a.com/htm/tutorials/nvidiacli.php and that will sort it out for ya. Well I kinda went round the sites and did it all manually in vi but the end result was it is installed andthe glxgear test reported

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question444

2002-09-06 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:37 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. If you are using the Nvidia drivers you are getting all the performance available. You did

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Peregrinf
On 7 Sep 2002, at 7:30, dh wrote: You might want to check out win4lin (if you already own win 98 etc.) they currently have a great deal ($49.00). There's part of the rub. I don't have a win98 license, and I don't intend to get one, nor any other Windows license. I have heard very good

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Peregrinf
On 7 Sep 2002, at 7:34, dh wrote: Which model is this? -price? Ooops, sorry. It's model AR805, and cost $498 plus shipping and handling, total $548.21. Dennis Fowler Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Derek Jennings
My experience with win4lin is that everything works, but not necessarily very well. For example with Quicken certain functions work normally, while others are *lots* slower than under Windows. (Possibly because my Quicken files are very large. Others may not experience a problem) Also

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Friday 06 September 2002 12:04, Peregrinf wrote: I do miss a couple of my Windoze apps -- notably Pegasus for e-mail and PaintShop Pro. KMail and Gimp! *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a

[newbie] USB Printer detection

2002-09-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrake8.2 easily detected my Z53 usb printer:- lspcidrake unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8367 [KT266] unknown : VIA Technologies|VT8367 [KT266 AGP] usb-ohci: NEC|USB usb-ohci: NEC|USB ehci-hcd: NEC Corporation|PCI to USB Enhanced

Re: [newbie] gfx card driver question444

2002-09-06 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Sep 2002 9:47 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 21:34:37 +0100 magnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is a lot of questions to ask, but this has cost me hard cash and I dont feel I'm getting the performance out of this card. If you are using the Nvidia

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-06 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:45 PM 9/5/2002 +1000, you wrote: Well I've set up a lot of dual boot machines and defragging the FAT32 partitions has never caused a problem (even using the crappy defragger built in to 9x). I've lost the original message, but it would seem that we are tackling this from the wrong premise

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread ed tharp
On Friday 06 September 2002 09:10 am, you wrote: Nope. I meant it to go to the list but must have had the wrong box checked in Pegasus. I'll take care of it here and now, in fact. The only correction I want to make is that installing the LAN card was unnecessary, once I found the built in

Re: [newbie] RPM Questions

2002-09-06 Thread Michael Notforyou
Generally, use the Mandrake or Mandrake Cooker RPM if there is one (and rpmfind.net archives them), but then move on to other Red Hat based distros, such as, well, Red Hat. Still, there are no real advantages (other than ease of use) to RPM. (To me, having the libraries referenced, etc., is part

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Jose Mirles
On Friday 06 September 2002 02:12 pm, you wrote: Anne, I haven't found anything yet that doesn't work. (Not including games ;-) Miark I too have a few essential win98 apps. I looked at Wine, but there's a list on their pages of apps that run and those known not to - and guess what?

Re: [newbie] A small mouse problem.

2002-09-06 Thread Ralph Slooten
Maybe due to the upgrade in Gnome, something has happened to your Gnome config file (corrupted?). Try while not logged into yourself in Gnome to delete or move ~/.gnome, and then log back into gnome. On 5 Sep 2002, Terence J. Golightly wrote: List I just upgraded from mdk 8.1 to 8.2

Re: [newbie]WalMart Box - was ISA Ethernet Card

2002-09-06 Thread Todd Franklin
Hi Miark, I'm a win4lin user and just letting you know that it's compatable with all applications except any games or aps that require direct X or 3d. Office applications should work fine. What I did with my buddy is split the cost of the software with a buddy who needed it for his business

Re: [newbie] defrag and linux

2002-09-06 Thread dfox
WILL Screw ME to hell back. They also screw linux most times. Esp. if they do a surface scan repair job. Diskeeper is a little better from Hmm. I recall borrowing a copy of some commercial drive repair software - supposedly able to find and recover marginal sectors on a drive. Anyway,