Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-06 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 05.31 skrev Damian: Hi, > to contact the author of this XboxMediaPlayer, > (no e-mail address, no real name, no nothing. only a public > forum on his home site.) so there's little to begin with.. Perhaps someone could trace them, nice little bit of detective work :-)

Re: [newbie] how much ram should MDK be using?

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
In answer to the question "how much ram should MDK be using?" - The answer is ALL OF IT! This one comes up on a frequent basis because people are used to the way Windows does it. Windows will load up every DLL it finds in the system folder when it boots, and then loads apps into the remaini

Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-06 Thread Damian
El Lun 07 Oct 2002 05:47, Bo Rosén escribió: > mån 2002-10-07 klockan 00.41 skrev Damian: > > There's this new program called "Xbox Media Player" which > > appears to be in clear violation of the GPL. i'm not quite sure what this > > program does, but i think it's purpose is playing DivX movies on

Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-06 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 00.41 skrev Damian: > There's this new program called "Xbox Media Player" which > appears to be in clear violation of the GPL. i'm not quite sure what this > program does, but i think it's purpose is playing DivX movies on an Xbox or > something... Isn't this a matter fo

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]Mine not solved!

2002-10-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
Marcia, Run PrinterDrake through the console. You will get extra messages there that you don't get through the Mandrake Control Center. I'll bet that your getting the following messages. rmmod: module parport_probe is not loaded modprobe: Can't locate module parport_probe modprobe: Ca

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]Mine not solved!

2002-10-06 Thread Marcia
Linus Drouhard wrote: >I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through >Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. >Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled >and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Th

[newbie] Realplayer and web sites - solution

2002-10-06 Thread Jim Fazio
List, For any one else who uses realplayer and noticed that the help, music, or any thing else that uses a web browser does not work. I have a workaround. Seems realplayer is expecting Netscape to be loaded in /usr/bin/netscape. MDK9 does not have netscape it uses mozilla. What I did wa

[newbie] how much ram should MDK be using?

2002-10-06 Thread joe
I have found that under LM 9.0 using KDE it always shows 119mb of ram used according to gnome system monitor. This doesn't seem to change no matter what i run. Is this an accurate measure of my used ram? I found that under some other window managers there will be slightly less used (such as 110

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:24 AM 10/6/2002 -0600, you wrote: > the disks for Dolphin were made on 90 minute >blanks from a spindle of 50 that I couldn't resist for the price. We live in the same city... where the hell did you find 90 minute CD's!? --- Femme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] how to enable DRI on ATI radeon 32mb pci ?

2002-10-06 Thread joe
I have noticed that i cannot play tuxracer because it is so slow, I found this how-to for AGP Radeon cards: http://linux.ats.com.pl/radeon_dri_howto.txt which i tried to follow. (I inserted Load "dri" into the module section and created a "DRI" section with Mode 0666 in my XF86Config-4) But afte

[newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-06 Thread Damian
Hi people. I chose to bring this up because it pissed me off a bit, and i think we can do something about it. There's this new program called "Xbox Media Player" which appears to be in clear violation of the GPL. i'm not quite sure what this program does, but i think it's purpose is playing Di

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!] {NOT!}

2002-10-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
Wrongo! I thought I had it solved as I got a test page. That was all I got. Everything else gets stuck in queue with "usb port busy" error. Any ideas at all? I'm just about to dust off my 8.2 disks. It's a shame too, as there's a lot to like in 9.0. Linus On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:37

Re: [newbie] usb printer probs in 9.0?

2002-10-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
I have been having problems with printers in general with 9.0. I have a Stylus 777 (Epson) connected through USB. Sometimes PrinterDrake can find it, other times not. I've successfully printed two test pages. That's all. The rest of the time it gets "stuck" and I get the message "usb port

Re: [newbie] help with MPlayer

2002-10-06 Thread joe
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 14:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Sunday 06 October 2002 03:57 am, you wrote: > > > there is one more thing, selecting fullscreen only adds large black borders > > but does not enlargen the video picture. I didnt find any settinds > > conserning that ? doubt that its the wa

Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.

2002-10-06 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Sunday 06 October 2002 04:56 pm, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: [Deleted] > > Hi, > > I tried the command line eject in the following two forms and I got the > same result: > > eject cdrom > eject /dev/cdrom > > Then I went and pressed the but

Re: [newbie] cdrom eject.

2002-10-06 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
On Sunday 06 October 2002 01:51 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Saturday 05 October 2002 07:04 pm, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I try to eject the cdrom using the eject in a popup menu or an eject > > entered on the command line, the CD pops out from the CD drive but it > > quickly gets pulled b

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread Michael Notforyou
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 18:01, shane wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:24 am, Alastair Scott did speak unto the > huddled masses, saying: > > > I have a feeling the next medium type to die off will be the 100MB > > Zip disk. > > someone has

Re: [newbie] Konqueror and Realplayer

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 8:36 pm, Noah Hicks wrote: > Does anyone know how to make Realplayer open the audio/video streams from > Konqueror? I was able to to it in Mozilla and Galeon by placing a plugin > file in the proper dir but I can't seem to do it with Konqueror. > Thanks > Noah KDEControlCen

Re: [newbie] how to get write permission to a mounted folder?

2002-10-06 Thread Norman
fifner the dragon wrote: >Hi, >I made a shared folder (called "J") on my other box(windoze). I can access it from >/mnt/J using Samba. To read and copy from it is no problem. If I log in as root I can >write to it. How can I write to it without logging in as root? > >Cheers, >Fifner > > >---

Re: [newbie] Konqueror and Realplayer

2002-10-06 Thread Todd Flinders
I would check your /etc/pluggerrc file and make sure nothing screwy is going on there. Then check in Konqueror's Settings under File Association for any of the Realplayer associatations. Make sure RealPlayer is at the top of the General and Embedding tabs. On Sunday 06 October 2002 12:36 pm,

Re: [newbie] sympa???

2002-10-06 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 06 October 2002 9:31 am, Franki did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: > pretty dumb really, there was 200 odd mb left on CD3.. they should have > made it up to a full CD by putting conrtib packages in it.. better then > leaving the C

RE: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Mike Eastaugh
Ahhh, excellent. Thanks Scott. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Scott B Sent: 06 October 2002 18:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake No, the ISO images are a special kind of file. They

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread Charlie
On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:57 am, et wrote: > well, to be honest, I have often found that sitting back and expecting "the > same" from almost any group works best as far as predicting behavior. as > long as "the same" is a long record of attempting excellence within the > realm of "Open Source"

[newbie] USB Hot Sync with Palm Device

2002-10-06 Thread Dan Butler
Has anyone had any luck with hot syncing their palm device using the USB connection? I have tried pilot-link but don't have enough knowledge to get it to configure and work by applying the tarball file. I think I'll just be waiting for a working version to be installed with the next version

Re: [newbie] Bizarre SpamAssassin scores

2002-10-06 Thread Charlie
On Sunday 06 October 2002 08:00 am, Derek Jennings wrote: > It is very nice having spamassassin in Contrib in 9.0, but after having > some obvious spams get past spamassassin I took a look at the score file > and found that it differs from the "official" spamassassin scores file in > rather strang

Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Todd Flinders
It's been a long time since I've used Windows, but in Adaptec there will be an option of some sort to to from an image/iso. That's what you want. The README file you'll find on the FTP site you download the .iso's from will actually have instructions on how to burn using Adaptec. Once you bu

RE: [newbie] sympa???

2002-10-06 Thread Franki
pretty dumb really, there was 200 odd mb left on CD3.. they should have made it up to a full CD by putting conrtib packages in it.. better then leaving the CD only 3/4 full... oh well, I'll get it from contribs,, thanks guys, rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Todd Flinders
Go to: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ftp.php3 Assuming you are using an Athlon or a Pentium, click on Mandrake 9.0/i586 ISO Image. Choose a mirror closest to you and then download: README md5sums.90 Mandrake90-cd1-inst.i586.iso Mandrake90-cd2-ext.i586.

Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Scott B
No, the ISO images are a special kind of file. They contain all of the data and directory structure needed to write a whole CD. That's why the files are usually bigger than a CD will hold. You will need to find where it says 'create CD from iso image' in your CD burner software and choose th

RE: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Mike Eastaugh
Thanks Dennis and Todd, Am indeed doing this from a win 2k or 95/98 machine probably using adaptec cd creator. From what I can make of the mandrake website I need to write the ISO files to CDs as raw data. So are files with the .ISO extension bootable then? Many thanks again, Mike -Origi

Re: [newbie] Printer stopped working [solved!]

2002-10-06 Thread Linus Drouhard
I got it working again. I had changed some of the running items through Mandroke Control center. I turned off things I didn't think I needed. Apparently I turned off too many. I restarted the ones that I had stoppled and printerdrake started and ran just fine. Thanks for all the suggestion

Re: [newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 06 October 2002 10:29 am, Mike Eastaugh wrote: > Hi'ya > > Am completly new to this, so could someone help me here. I'm just looking > to download a copy of mandrake from the FTP site and install it by booting > from CD. Can someone please tell me what I need to download. > > Any help mu

Re: [newbie] Networking

2002-10-06 Thread et
On Sunday 06 October 2002 11:08 am, you wrote: > I'm not familiar with Komba, but I do set up Samba networks. In Komba > there's probably a place to send your username and password. Make sure > that is correct. > > In your Samba Configuration, I believe you need to tell it to send > encrypted pa

[newbie] Downloading and installing mandrake

2002-10-06 Thread Mike Eastaugh
Hi'ya Am completly new to this, so could someone help me here. I'm just looking to download a copy of mandrake from the FTP site and install it by booting from CD. Can someone please tell me what I need to download. Any help much appreciated Mike ___

Re: [newbie] sympa???

2002-10-06 Thread Todd Flinders
A lot of programs are indeed "missing". I think this was done to make room for the Internationalization on the 3rd CD and to keep a 100% separation in the distro between Free and non-Free software. I have found that MOST (not all) of the "missing" software is found under the contrib section o

Re: [newbie] Networking

2002-10-06 Thread Todd Flinders
I'm not familiar with Komba, but I do set up Samba networks. In Komba there's probably a place to send your username and password. Make sure that is correct. In your Samba Configuration, I believe you need to tell it to send encrypted passwords. If memory serves me correctly GNU/Linux won't

Re: [newbie] Anybody having problems with 'snapscan' and their scanner?

2002-10-06 Thread Poogle
On Sunday 06 Oct 2002 H:31 am, Colin Rose wrote: > The problem is that somehow a typo is introduced in the file > /etc/sane.d/dll.conf. If you get the error 'no devices found' then edit > the above file and change the word 'SnapScan' to 'snapscan' and it > should work. AAARGGH !! I spent a couple

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread et
well, to be honest, I have often found that sitting back and expecting "the same" from almost any group works best as far as predicting behavior. as long as "the same" is a long record of attempting excellence within the realm of "Open Source" and/or "GNU", I see no reason to expect any less. I

[newbie] Crash early in install of 9.0

2002-10-06 Thread xjqcf
I posted this on alt.os.linux.mandrake but thought I'd post to this list, too (I hope this is not considered Spam).: I have a set of install discs for mdk 9.0 from Cheapbytes ( I am a Club Mandrake member, however :) ). I managed to install 9.0 over an existing ext2 and swap a partition (not an u

Re: [newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-06 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 00:16, Sean Goh wrote: > Hi, i've a problem copying files from M8.2 to the floppy disk...i use > the conquerer and i used the copy and paste method but as a paste it to > the floppy directory, the computer hangs after a second or two. > Previosly i could copy to A: without

[newbie] Bizarre SpamAssassin scores

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
It is very nice having spamassassin in Contrib in 9.0, but after having some obvious spams get past spamassassin I took a look at the score file and found that it differs from the "official" spamassassin scores file in rather strange ways. The scores file can be found in /usr/share/spamassass

[newbie] can't copy to A:

2002-10-06 Thread Sean Goh
Hi, i've a problem copying files from M8.2 to the floppy disk...i use the conquerer and i used the copy and paste method but as a paste it to the floppy directory, the computer hangs after a second or two. Previosly i could copy to A: without a problem using the same method. And it gradually g

Re: [newbie] Epson Printer

2002-10-06 Thread Angus Auld
> I'm in the market for a new printer and am considering either the Epson > C60 or C80. > > I'm running 8.2 and will be connecting parallel. Are there any known > problems connecting either of these printers to Mandrake 8.2? > > Rich --

Re: [newbie] usb printer probs in 9.0?

2002-10-06 Thread Angus Auld
> Greetings everyone, > > I am having a problem trying to configure my Epson Stylus Color 480SXU in Mdk 9.0. > > This printer wasn't detected during install of 9.0, but it is showing correctly in >MCC. When I try to configure with PrinterDrake, I go through the wizard process, and >all seems

[newbie] Epson Printer

2002-10-06 Thread Rich
I'm in the market for a new printer and am considering either the Epson C60 or C80. I'm running 8.2 and will be connecting parallel. Are there any known problems connecting either of these printers to Mandrake 8.2? Rich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [newbie] Evolution and recurring tasks

2002-10-06 Thread Brian Parish
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 00:22, Warren Post wrote: > El mar, 01-10-2002 a las 02:20, Brian Parish escribió: > > I have a mission to convert my sister to Mandrake. Evolution is an > > important part of this. She asks how to do something fairly simple: > > create a recurring task. It certainly ain

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread Technoslick
Your welcome, Brian! I'm glad you found what your problem was. Now, what do you (and I who also have a CD-RW in my Linux 8.2 machine that won't read 700 MB CDs properly) and the others with this problem do about it? It seems that this will be a reoccurring theme until all of us get rid of our o

Re: [newbie] SMTP port 25

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Oct 2002 4:00 pm, Franki wrote: > That depends, > > postfix is a mail server... > > if you just collect email via evolution or kmail from your ISP's mail > server then no, you don't need postfix running.. > > > however, you can do some really really cool things using postfix, so its >

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 installation problems

2002-10-06 Thread Brian Meadows
On Fri, 04 Oct 2002 23:55:43 -0400, you wrote: >Your 24X Mitsumi IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM drive (Mfg. date - circa 1997) is >designed to read CD-Rs, BUT is limited to a max storage capacity of 630 >MBs in Mode 2 (standard read mode). You may not be able to read the >Install CD for MDK 9 (~690+ MBs) prop

Re: [newbie] sympa???

2002-10-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 05 Oct 2002 9:53 pm, Franki wrote: > Hi guys, > > I finially decided to install Sympa figuring if its good enough for > mandrake, its good enough for me... > > so i went to my mdk9 box and typed urpmi sympa > it gave me a package not found error... > > > so I walked over to an 8.2 box

RE: [newbie] SMTP port 25

2002-10-06 Thread Franki
That depends, postfix is a mail server... if you just collect email via evolution or kmail from your ISP's mail server then no, you don't need postfix running.. however, you can do some really really cool things using postfix, so its worth reading up on. (postfix.org) Also, if you run a secur

RE: [newbie] tightvnc Way cool!!!!

2002-10-06 Thread Franki
Thanks for the info,, I am looking into it... looks great, just want I needed. rgds franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Viron Sent: Saturday, 5 October 2002 9:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

Re: [newbie] Another pesky supermount problem

2002-10-06 Thread Robin Turner
Robin Turner wrote: > I currently have a Mdk 8.2 system with three kernels. The 8.0 kernel > (2.4.3-20mdk) will not give ordinary users access to removable media - > depending on how accessed, I get messages like "Could not read / ", "You > do not have permission to access /mnt/floppy" or "Mou

[newbie] Networking

2002-10-06 Thread Lee
Hi All: I've been mostly lurking for two years now, and have (with your guidance) gotten most everything done in Mandrake that I wanted, but. My home network. I have 1 MS ME 586, 1 MS WIN98 586, 2 MS WIN2K 586's, 1 LEXMARK Optra LX+, and 1 MDK 586 all through SMC 7004ABR and DLink

[newbie] sympa???

2002-10-06 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I finially decided to install Sympa figuring if its good enough for mandrake, its good enough for me... so i went to my mdk9 box and typed urpmi sympa it gave me a package not found error... so I walked over to an 8.2 box and typed the same, and low and behold, it installed Sympa.. S

Re: [newbie] help with MPlayer

2002-10-06 Thread Kristjan
On Sat, 05 Oct 2002 13:53:14 -0600 joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:09, Kristjan wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > one error that I dont know what to do with > > > > openig any video I get a popup window telling: > > > > "error opening/initializing the selected video_out (-vo