Re: [newbie-it] Spegnimento, congelamento, stand by.

2002-10-13 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
apm nel bios non l'ho trovato; è un PC multiprocessore (2 Atlon 1700), quindi parte con linux smp. per quello che so (ho tutti i server senza supporto apm, quindi non ho mai provato a forzare ) supporto multiprocesore e apm non vanno d'accordo... tratto dalla ML [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus

2002-10-13 Thread CyberPenguin
Francesco Vinci wrote: Salve, Scusate se Linux e Mandrake li nomino solamente. Qualcuno di voi potrebbe inviarmi un e-mail con allegati alcuni file differenti (piccoli) dei quali è certo che non contengano virus? [snip] Non mi sento convinto ... [snip] Certo ... finche'

[newbie-it] connessione internet come utente comune

2002-10-13 Thread Rosario
Ho installato recentemente sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.2, da un disco allegato ad una rivista, e non sono riuscito a trovare il modo di collegarmi ad internet, tramite l’interfaccia grafica KDE, senza usare la password di root. Infatti, clickando sull’icona “internet”

Re: [newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem

2002-10-13 Thread carmine de pasquale
Salve a tutti. Qualcuno conosce come utilizzare il Sat Modem della Netsystem, con la Mandrake 8.2 o 9.0?(questa domanda posta al servizio clienti ha ricevuto come risposta che non esistono driver per Linux ).Grazie per l'aiuto. Ciao. ciao, esistono, li ho scaricati, ma sono in beta e per kernel

[newbie-it] Re: usb e digitali

2002-10-13 Thread tom
Alle 20:52, venerdì 11 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ecco i due file. In bocca al lupo e buon lavoro! PS: ho visto ora che alcuni segni di punteggiature (- e ) sono stati convertiti in punti interrogativi, il tutto dovrebbe comunque esser chiaro. Ti ringrazzio...ora vedo che riesco a

Re: [newbie-it] connessione internet come utente comune

2002-10-13 Thread tom
Alle 22:27, domenica 13 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ho installato recentemente sul mio computer Linux Mandrake 8.2, da un disco allegato ad una rivista, e non sono riuscito a trovare il modo di collegarmi ad internet, tramite l'interfaccia grafica KDE, senza usare la password di root.

Re: [newbie-it] anch'io porta USB (x HD portatile)

2002-10-13 Thread Arwan
Alle 09:20, sabato 12 ottobre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su [newbie-it] anch'io porta USB (x HD portatile), guido hai scritto: cos'e creargli il link per un device usb di cui parla Arwan ? Urgh... ero un po' a corto di termini tecnici... cmq per far partire la digitale ho fatto uso

[newbie-it] formattare

2002-10-13 Thread ba-rk
Saluti a tutti,ho due dischi fissi:C/windows+una partizioneD altro disco linux :MDK formattando windows,non è che perdo dei dati in linux ,per esempio Lilo come sempre un grazie mario

Re: [newbie-it] formattare

2002-10-13 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 12:05, domenica 13 ottobre 2002, ba-rk ha scritto: Saluti a tutti,ho due dischi fissi:C/windows+una partizioneD altro disco linux :MDK formattando windows,non è che perdo dei dati in linux ,per esempio Lilo come sempre un grazie non perdi

[newbie-it]:Sat modem Netsystem

2002-10-13 Thread uvleda
Salve a tutti. Qualcuno conosce come utilizzare il Sat Modem della Netsystem, con la Mandrake 8.2 o 9.0?(questa domanda posta al servizio clienti ha ricevuto come risposta che non esistono driver per Linux ).Grazie per l'aiuto. Ciao.

[newbie] Evolution

2002-10-13 Thread Smiley
Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only happen with Evolution (now 1.0.8, Mandrake 8.2, but

[newbie] Video card upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread Smiley
I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of upgrade? I have little interest in 3D, I'm

[newbie] USB ethernet adapters

2002-10-13 Thread Brian Parish
I have a client's machine on the bench right now that would make a fine little firewall but for the fact that it has no expansion slots and no LAN interface. USB is therefore the only option for LAN connectivity. I have a SMC 2206 USB/ETH adapter which I've used under windblows a few times to

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-10-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 16:12:50 +0200 Smiley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed...

Re: [newbie] Reformat a spare partition

2002-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Brian Parish wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 00:09, John Richard Smith wrote: Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 23:09, John Richard Smith wrote: I want to change the file system on partition /dev/hda10 /mnt/ntfs-vol7 to

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

2002-10-13 Thread Smiley
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the

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

2002-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Smiley wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to

[newbie] Mandrake kernels and Gateway Athlon PCs (Kadoka motherboard)

2002-10-13 Thread Andy Stone
Does anyone have the answer to this? Am I on the right list? Andy snip Mandrake - Motherboard question There is a long known problem with Mandrake 2.4.x kernels in all 8.x dists and the Kadoka motherboard found in Gateway Athlon machines: http://mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=937lang=en

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-10-13 Thread Smiley
On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 15:15:05 +0100 Alastair Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a first step, archive some of it off. Can't remember how as I changed client some time back. I did it. Both :) Evolution stores a lot of extra data with its emails (XML files and similar); I found that, when I

Re: [newbie] Reformat a spare partition

2002-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Brian Parish wrote: Thanks, One further thought, What's the betting I need to remake the mandrake boot floppy. In the past , in my experience, you change anything to do with the partition table/file system and the old boot floppy won't work. Any thoughts, John --

[newbie] canon bjc610 printer

2002-10-13 Thread Dennis Sue
Hello, I have tried every possible thing I can find, read, and install to get this supported printer working. The best I have yet to achieve is garbage character printout, and even that isn't consistent. I am tired of editing, searching, reading, installing, removing, and looking. I've had

Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer

2002-10-13 Thread Derek Jennings
I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it has already been suggested) http://www.turboprint.de/english.html Turbo print is not free and so cannot be bundled with Mandrake. It is however

[newbie] Re: canon bjc610 printer

2002-10-13 Thread Dennis Sue
Thank you Derek, I am on my way there as I type this Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Video card upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread Jason Guidry
On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 09:12, Smiley wrote: I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of

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

2002-10-13 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 3:52 pm, you wrote: Smiley wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:33:00 -0500 Linus Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and

Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer

2002-10-13 Thread Dennis Sue
On Sunday 13 October 2002 12:18 pm, you wrote: I have not been following this thread, but anytime someone has difficulty with printer drivers it is worth giving TurboPrint a try (apologies if it has already been suggested) http://www.turboprint.de/english.html Turbo print is not free and

[newbie] OO program fonts

2002-10-13 Thread Noah Hicks
Any one know how to change the program fonts in Openoffice.org? I read how to do it somewhere a long time ago but I can't remember where. Presently the fonts look like they went through a blender. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] MDK 9.0 crashes at boot

2002-10-13 Thread Bogdan Stancescu
Hello everybody! I have an AMD Athlon XP 2000+ CPU on a K7S5A motherboard with AMIBIOS, if that makes any difference. I install Mandrake 9.0 ok, but when I reboot and try to boot in Linux I get: Running DevFs daemon: [OK] Unmounting initrd: [OK] Configuting kernel parameters: [OK] And that's

Re: [newbie] Samba Problem

2002-10-13 Thread Rulon Holm
On Sunday 13 October 2002 04:04 am, Robin Turner wrote: Rulon Holm wrote: I can't get samba to work ever since enabled internet connection sharing. I have a modem that connects to the internet. the other computer computer is running WindowsXP. Could someone help me. THx Can you give more

RE: [newbie] OO program fonts

2002-10-13 Thread Craig Williamson (ENZ)
Title: RE: [newbie] OO program fonts Hi There, For your font rendering problem. I don't now what the Mandrake 9.0 stance is for xft2, fontconfig, and freetype. If these are installed, try some of the xft2 fonts in OpenOffice. Just as an example, take a look at this Redhat 8.0 screenshot

Re: [newbie] canon bjc610 printer

2002-10-13 Thread Derek Jennings
Good news about Turbo print working :-) I have never needed to use it myself because my printer is not supported :-( I do rather agree with your rant. My own printer is an HPDesket 720C which without my knowing when I bought it, is a 'winprinter' in that it requires the PC to directly manage

Re: [newbie] Evolution

2002-10-13 Thread Brian Craft
On Sunday 13 October 2002 10:12 am, Smiley wrote: Some months ago, Evolution became slower and slower, every time I download messages from my accounts, the hard disk start to whirl and even if I manage to receive all mails, at the end, the task take 20 times than supposed... That's does only

[newbie] Customizing GNOME panel in Mandrake 9

2002-10-13 Thread Brian Craft
I am running Mandrake 9, but would like to make GNOME customized as if I was running Redhat 8. I am running the Bluecurve/Freecurve theme and managed to change the icon in the main gnome panel from the Mandrake logo to the redhat logo from Redhat 8. The only thing I'm having a problem with

[newbie] Compilation difficulties - installation problem?

2002-10-13 Thread dfox
I'm getting the dreaded configure -- installation problem -- C compiler cannot create executables. message. Upon further inspection, there seems to be a misconfiguration, and I get a few error messages from gcc. ib/libc.so.6: undefined reference to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]' /lib/libc.so.6:

Re: [newbie] Samba Problem

2002-10-13 Thread Sharrea
On Sunday 13 Oct 2002 2:00 pm, Rulon Holm wrote: I can't get samba to work ever since enabled internet connection sharing. I have a modem that connects to the internet. the other computer computer is running WindowsXP. Could someone help me. THx Firstly, I am NO expert on networking stuff!

[newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Robin Turner
Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake Club site. \begin{irrelevance} And no, I am not going to

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Robin, You can find the drivers in: A) The mandrake Club download mirrors B) ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/contrib/texstar/ -- Francisco Alcaraz Ariza Departamento de Biología Vegetal Universidad de Murcia E-30100 Murcia España (Spain) Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] libvgagl?

2002-10-13 Thread dfox
Hello, what package provides libvgagl? I am (still) installing from 9.0 and had this working before in 8.1 (mplayer). I am rebuilding mplayer and came across this library not being there. I looked in rpmdrake for files matching libvga* and nothing came up. Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Video card upgrade

2002-10-13 Thread FemmeFatale
At 04:12 PM 10/13/2002 +0200, you wrote: I'd like to buy a new video card, keeping my current cpu and mainboard; I can also upgrade my K6 II 400 to a K6 II 533, anyway... GeForce 2 400mx and 3D Prophet (Kyro II) are sold at good prices near my home :) Do you think does it worth such kind of

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

2002-10-13 Thread Marcia
Linus Drouhard wrote: I finally did the obvious and reinstalled 9.0. That fixed my printing problem. I may never know what the problem was (and really won't care as long as it doesn't happen again.) I really wanted to discover the problem and fix it rather just a clean install, but, as

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers

2002-10-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 13 October 2002 05:55 pm, Robin Turner wrote: Sorry if this question has already been answered, but a browse through the archives for the past month hasn't revealed anything. The Nvidia website has no drivers for 9.0. Threads in the archives only refer to drivers in the Mandrake

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

2002-10-13 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 10:22, Marcia wrote: By the way, during reinstall of LM9 I accidently lost my choice of win95 which I had already installed. I forgot how to get it back without erasing LM. What did one do again to get lilo to boot windows again? Thanks, Marcia Marcia, You need

[newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-13 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great when I play a CD, but I cannot get the mp3 players to work yet. Some system sounds work. This is my /etc/modules.conf. cat /etc/modules.conf

Re: [newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-13 Thread Brian Parish
On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 11:14, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great when I play a CD, but I cannot get the mp3 players to work yet. Some system sounds work.

Re: [newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-13 Thread dfox
Marcia writes: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great I wonder why the mp3 players (have you tried mpg123, for a common denominator player) would not do sound while the cd players

Re: [newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-13 Thread Damian
El Lun 14 Oct 2002 01:49, dfox escribió: Marcia writes: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the via chipset ac97 onboard sound and the sound is great I wonder why the mp3 players (have you tried mpg123, for a common denominator

Re: [newbie] LM9 sound

2002-10-13 Thread Michael Notforyou
Looks like a VIA 82cxxx motherboard. Check my Website for information about a bug in the 2.4 kernel series's bug in ac97_codec.c and how to fix it. On Sun, 2002-10-13 at 21:14, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Well, now that I reinstalled LM9 with my HP printer as parallel, that works. I have the

[newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.

2002-10-13 Thread Franki
Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait finding available packages and that message never

Re: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.

2002-10-13 Thread Damian
El Lun 14 Oct 2002 03:19, Franki escribió: Hi guys, After proclaiming my mdk9 install to be a success, I find myself kinda embarrased. I tried to install an app with urpmi appname and it didn't work. Then I tried to fire up MandrakeUpdate,,, same result.. it displays please wait finding

RE: [newbie] mdk9 rpm problems.

2002-10-13 Thread Franki
nope,, nothing happening... only perl is miniserv.pl (webmin) couldn't find anything chewing up ram or CPU time... nothing with running rpm or urpm* either. So I restarted, and it seems to be rebuilding the db fine now.. (lots of HD activity now, as opposed to none before..and also showing up

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice.org bug

2002-10-13 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 22:38, Alastair Scott wrote: On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 23:08:43 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Bug On my Windows versions oo.o 1.0 1.0.1 the buttons on the toolbar usually load degraded, in other words the image for the button is distorted. Has anyone

Re: [newbie] No sound in LM9

2002-10-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On Fri, 11 Oct 2002 16:46:31 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you underestimate Mandrake and their ability to learn from past errors. While it's true that earlier releases initially had problems, 9.0 has undergone very extensive testing, including three betas, and two or three

Re: [newbie] Windblows

2002-10-13 Thread Alastair Scott
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 16:38:30 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: damn Shane... thx for the info... I hate this... So few OSes... and so little time now :| Sigh whatever happened to Diversity in the Marketshare ? Geez. I think it had the same problem as other non-Microsoft