Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio

2002-10-17 Thread Andrea Celli
On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:00:40 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti. girovagando per il sistema ho fatto la tristissima scoperta che la scheda audio non funziona :-[[[ ho lanciato un file *.mp3, mi si è aperto un programmino simile a winamp ma dalle casse usciva il nulla.

[newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll

2002-10-17 Thread Luca
Ciao ragazzi. Innanzitutto vi ringrazio per le innumerevoli risposte... Dunqueieri sera ho provato a lanciare una masterizzazione dalla rica di comando,non avendo nessun programma installato ( nelle applicazioni mi manca il pacchetto! non l'ho installato?) dovevo masterizzare

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio

2002-10-17 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:00, mercoledì 16 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti. girovagando per il sistema ho fatto la tristissima scoperta che la scheda audio non funziona :-[[[ ho lanciato un file *.mp3, mi si è aperto un programmino simile a winamp ma

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll

2002-10-17 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 09:48, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao ragazzi. Innanzitutto vi ringrazio per le innumerevoli risposte... Dunqueieri sera ho provato a lanciare una masterizzazione dalla rica di comando,non avendo nessun programma installato ( nelle applicazioni mi manca il

Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.

2002-10-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:07, mercoledì 16 ottobre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: ciao a tutti. ho installato firestarter (0.8.2) su e da mdk 8.2download. uso internet per semplice navigazione e posta domestica, connesso via modem. non mi è chiaro quali porte

Re: [newbie-it] Modem - Installazione

2002-10-17 Thread paolo brusasco
beh do solo risposte grossolane- devi farlo da root- in una installazione standard dovrebbe aprirlo ed installarlo. l'ho già fatto un paio di volte e va bene. pqcps (per quello che può servire..) ciao miKe wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:54, mercoledì 16

Re: [newbie-it] Scheda audio

2002-10-17 Thread Luca
Hai provato a vedere sui volumi del mixer come sono messi? Una domanda: ma non ti eri mai accorto del non funzionamento della s cheda, da quando hai installato linux? Ciao Sandro Ciao Sandro. sinceramente non mi sono accorto perchè lo installato e non ho acceso le casse

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll

2002-10-17 Thread Luca
a tua disposizione hai una ricca documentazione (i famosi How- To), che può aiutarti a districarti da problemi del genere. Per esempio, dvresti avere un CD recording How- To, che ti spiega passo- passo tutta la procedura. Leggi prima quelli, poi magari la documentazione del

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll

2002-10-17 Thread Giorgio Carrara
Ciedo scusa ma non trovo la pagina per Iscrivermi/Cancellarmi dalla mailing list. Posso avere un aiuto ? Grazie in anticipo - Original Message - From: Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie-it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare

Re: [newbie-it] Masterizzare dalla Consoll

2002-10-17 Thread Andrea Celli
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:34:44 +0200 Giorgio Carrara [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciedo scusa ma non trovo la pagina per Iscrivermi/Cancellarmi dalla mailing list. Posso avere un aiuto ? Grazie in anticipo Guarda gli headers/intestazioni complete di un qualsiasi messaggio della lista. Oppure vai a

[newbie-it] Connessione

2002-10-17 Thread Luca
ciao a tutti dimenticavo di chiedervi una cosa di rilevante importanza... ammesso che riesca a installare il modem (altrimenti saro sempre qui ma ce la dobbiamo fare) dove trovo da fare la connessione ? cioè dove imposti numero del provider, tcp/ip,dns.e tutti i vari

[newbie-it] Kisocd II

2002-10-17 Thread Mavricijo Babi
/configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no checking for extra includes... no checking for extra libs... no checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking target system type... i686-pc-linux-gnuoldld checking

Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.

2002-10-17 Thread paolo brusasco
grazie a tutti, mike e freefed. non penso di avere attive condivisioni di rete locale win o samba, o almeno la scelta services di menudrake control center non le evidenzia. è attivo solo il servizio internet. il pc è standalone. le richieste su 137 arrivano da una vasta gamma di indirizzi.

[newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!

2002-10-17 Thread Luca
Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo sistema operativoho installato l'audio.ho masterizzato e il modem ...voilà! sembra un

Re: [newbie-it] Modem

2002-10-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:51, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, francesco.melo ha scritto: apri una shell e controlla il contenuto di /etc/fstab se hai delle linee tipo: Administratormdk:~$ cat /etc/fstab | grep vfat /dev/hda5 /mnt/fat_c vfat

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

2002-10-17 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Mi sento talmente frustrato ed insicuro con Linux che non ci faccio ancora niente. Non so quando arriverò a decidermi a migrare completamente l'attività internet su Linux. Un giorno lo farò, ma è storia futura. Mi permetto di rispondere con un incoraggiamento anch'io: la mia

[newbie-it] Passaggio a Linux [Ex (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus]

2002-10-17 Thread Francesco Vinci
- Original Message - From: Piero Piutti [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] (O.T.)Problemi Anti-Virus Mi sento talmente frustrato ed insicuro con Linux che non ci faccio ancora niente. Non so quando arriverò a

Re: [newbie-it] Kisocd II

2002-10-17 Thread freefred
On Thursday 17 October 2002 5:09 pm, Mavricijo Babi wrote about S%: /configure loading cache ./config.cache checking for Cygwin environment... no checking for mingw32 environment... no mah qua sembra che ti cerchi il cygwin che serve per lanciare programmi unix sotto windows (e' piu'

Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!

2002-10-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:56, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, Luca ha scritto: Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo

Re: [newbie-it] firewall firestarter porte e servizi.

2002-10-17 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 19:07, giovedì 17 ottobre 2002, paolo brusasco ha scritto: grazie a tutti, mike e freefed. non penso di avere attive condivisioni di rete locale win o samba, o almeno la scelta services di menudrake control center non le evidenzia. perfetto

[newbie-it] Differenza tra cc gcc

2002-10-17 Thread Benedetto Santarella
Qual'e' la differenza di questi due compilatori \ | / (@ @) -o00-(_)-00o Benedetto Santarella

Re: [newbie-it] NON MI SEMBRA VERO!

2002-10-17 Thread francesco.melo
Luca wrote: Ciao a tutti! innanzitutto un grandissimo ringraziamento a tutti voi che mi avete supportato e aiutato..ma siamo solo algi albori! sto scrivendo da quidal mio nuovo sistema operativoho installato l'audio.ho masterizzato e il modem ...voilà! sembra

Re: [newbie] Evolution -spell checker

2002-10-17 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 15:23, Malcolm Candlish wrote: Does anyones Evolution 'spell checker' work. All I get is:- 'No misspelled word found'. That is in spite of glaring mistakes! Malcolm Candlish. Malcolm, There's a problem with the Mandrake installation process regarding Evolution

Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-17 Thread robin
G_REEPER wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a question, I have had a lot of trouble getting supermount to work correctly. Mainly when installing rpms off of cds other than the mdk disk. Like the sims cd. Just to give you a blow by blow. I place the cd

Re: [newbie] Perl modules

2002-10-17 Thread robin
Gary Armstrong wrote: Disclaimer = Brand new to linux I was looking to do some CGI work. Perl's CGI module doesn't appear to be resident(MD9). I'm a little confused because I thought CGI::* and CGI.pm were part of Perl's base release since 5.6 and this is 5.8. Anyway, I was wondering

[newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access

2002-10-17 Thread Brian Parish
Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines assures me that there is nothing to configure and

[newbie] Desktop Shortcut

2002-10-17 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Hi, I'm trying to put a link on the desktop in KDE. I've managed to get it there. I've even managed to get it to run in a terminal. But how do I get the terminal window to stay open long enough to read the output? Regards Trevor Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] isntalling M9 after M8.2

2002-10-17 Thread Joe Harkins
I have ordered a set of distro disks for M9 and expect it to arrive in a day or so. My box already has M8.2 installed. What is the procedure to install M9 without losing my existing data and settings? Does M9 play well with others and share toys? Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Let there be sound please?!?

2002-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
ET wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:13 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have setup my /etc/modules.conf as suggested for via onboard 8233 sound and still no sound for mp3, midi, most system sounds. Is there anything else I could check or do? Would I be better

[newbie] Setting up USB

2002-10-17 Thread David
Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and that tested successfully. When I tried to run X-windows last night, it wouldn't

Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut

2002-10-17 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Trevor; If you're trying to read the output of the command, open a console (shell/terminal) , and run the command manually. The output should be the same whether it's in a terminal or not. If you're not seeing any output in the terminal, then the command is completing normally, and is not

Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut

2002-10-17 Thread Lanman
That can sometimes depend on the command, but, yeah, it should work. How's the weather down under today? Lanman On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 07:48, Trevor Rhodes wrote: Trevor; If you're trying to read the output of the command, open a console (shell/terminal) , and run the command manually. The

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

2002-10-17 Thread Sharrea
On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 12:53 pm, Leonard W. Miller wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Richard Holt Sent: Monday, July 22, 2002 7:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] how to mount zip drive, post install,

[newbie] KDE 3.1/Mandrake 9?

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Abby
Will the Mandrake 8.2 rpm's for KDE 3.1 work without problem on Mandrake 9? Just loaded up Mandrake 9 on a test system yesterday and upgraded to KDE 3.0.4, but I want to take a look see at KDE 3.1. Thx Anthony Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Setting up USB

2002-10-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 12:43 pm, David wrote: Hi y'all...I need to setup USB on my laptop as I have a few USB devices (External CD-RW, Palm Pilot, etc). When I setup the Operating System the other night (Mandrake-Linux 8.0) it detected my USB wheel-mouse and that tested successfully. When I

Re: [newbie] PRIMARY MASTER HARD DISK FAIL

2002-10-17 Thread Roland Hughes
We where replacing them while still in warranty. Roly On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 07:00:02 -0400 ET [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 16 October 2002 09:42 pm, Roland Hughes wrote: The Quantum fireball disk drives have a very high failure rate. At work we have replaced every one of them. Roly

Re: [newbie] Desktop Shortcut

2002-10-17 Thread Trevor Rhodes
That can sometimes depend on the command, but, yeah, it should work. Tried it but got an error. I wish knew how to do this stuff. :^) How's the weather down under today? Absolutely bloody beautiful me 'ol china!!! Shame I spent it all at the doctors or in front of my pooter. But I do

Re: [newbie] Setting up USB

2002-10-17 Thread Derek Jennings
I did not notice in your earlier post that you were using 8.0. The fix for the intellimouse should still work, but do not count on your palm pilot working with 8.0 derek On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 1:11 pm, David Alford wrote: Hi ET, Yeah, guess I might have to... Apart from that problem it

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions

2002-10-17 Thread mike
Richard, I don't use a dial up setup but did have fierewall issues initally with 9.0. I uninstalled all the stock firewall tools, shorewall, and didn't use the control center drake tools either. instead, I downloaded firestarter and use it. it is very easy for a newbie, and actually works. it

[newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Flux
REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens, and the disc

Re: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions

2002-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday October 17 2002 03:46 am, Richard Urwin wrote: Hi, OK, I'm a newbie at MDK 9.0 i586 of 5 hours standing. I installed at the higher security setting. It's a good idea, specially with a new install (or upgrade) to set the minimum security level. Then move up later if a

RE: [newbie] Real Newbie security questions

2002-10-17 Thread Richard Urwin
Richard, I don't use a dial up setup but did have fierewall issues initally with 9.0. Thanks for your reply, when I get back to the machine I'll give your suggestion a try. You seem to be on an ethernet feed from a cable modem? I have an (unconnected) ethernet NIC in the machine. If this was

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

2002-10-17 Thread Richard Holt
Thanks, Sharrea, Just in time. :-)) After reconfiguring, lost the zip config. I'll check it out. It's a pain to reinstall just to get the zip working. saludos, Richard. On Fri, 18 Oct 2002 01:13:06 +1300, Sharrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 23 Jul 2002 12:53 pm, Leonard W. Miller

Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 5:41 am, robin did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age computer that you basically just plug in and use.

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

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 3:10 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My fstab has an entry like this none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 but each time I boot I get an error

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-17 Thread Miark
if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it. ...would you give in? My question is more on the legal side. How can _any_ company

[newbie] bad signature..........tex??

2002-10-17 Thread Angus Auld
I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. Just what does it mean that the signature was bad? Why would a package from tex have a bad sig? I went ahead and

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

2002-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 3:10 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My fstab has an entry like this none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 but each time I boot I get

Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Flux
Okay, okay. We're getting somewhere here. :) Thanks for clearing that up for me, Derek. In the Mount section of the Mandrake Control Center, I enabled Supermount, and disabled user and noauto. I rebooted, and now I can just eject the disc and it'll auto- unmount it for me. Great! But

Re: [newbie] bad signature..........tex??

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 9:20 am, Angus Auld did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Miark wrote: if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows, or you will not sell any with it. ...would you give in? My question is more on the legal side. How can

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 8:51 am, Miark did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My question is more on the legal side. How can _any_ company dictate what their resellers will sell? And that goes _double_ for a monopoly. M$ was taken to

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:01 am, John Richard Smith did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: Here in the UK such a position is illegal, but that doesn't always mean The European Commission is not weak and it has it's teeth right into M$

Re: [newbie] bad signature..........tex??

2002-10-17 Thread Angus Auld
On Thursday 17 October 2002 9:20 am, Angus Auld did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: I just installed the wallpaper-0.1-3tex.i586.rpm from texstar, and when I urpmi'd the package, I was told that it had a bad signature, and asked if I wanted to continue anyway. Just what does it

[newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}

2002-10-17 Thread windwalker
On Thursday 17 October 2002 13:30, you wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 10:01, John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: if 90%plus of all user run windows, and people fear change, and you sell computers, the people who make windows (MS) say you will sell all your machines with windows,

[newbie] OT meeting

2002-10-17 Thread windwalker
Early evening last night, i drove the 2 hours for the monthly Computer users Club meeting. almost all are Windows usersSeveral asked.. Hey mike what system you running XP Telling them no.. i was running Linux got me shunned for the rest of the night {grin}... Even people I have known

Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 1:35 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly scratched and unable to do a full install. I have documents ect

[newbie] konsole environment vs. desktop environment

2002-10-17 Thread Bruno Maggi
Hi all, Questions are numbered 1 2 and 3. I want to configure $PATH and other environment variables and I find that in /etc/profile I have: PATH=$PATH:/usr/lib/kde3/bin EDITOR=emacs HISTSIZE=1000 export EDITOR PATH HISTSIZE And when I open a terminal I have (doing $ set RET): HISTSIZE=500

[newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread Rainer
hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went to nvidia, matched the kernel and glx (3XXX) versions. the kernel installed fine, but the glx didn't want to. used the '-e' option outlined in the nvid read me and it installed but now X won't start at boot up! since i'm no expert on

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread bascule
is this the first time for installing nvidia drivers? if so then you need to edit /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and find nv in the driver section and change it to nvidia also make sure load glx is added after the freetype reference in the modules section if not then you know this:-) bascule On Thursday

Re: [newbie] What's with the CDROM drive?

2002-10-17 Thread Robin Turner
Flux wrote: REAL newbie question here: Is there any way to get removable media to work in Linux the way it does in the Windows/Mac world? It kinda bugs me that I have to unmount the cdrom just to eject it. Case in point, if I accidentally hit the eject button on my laptop, nothing happens,

Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access

2002-10-17 Thread Steven Spears
I had same situation you did and here is how I fixed it. When I open up the MCC to share my net connection with the computers on my lan, the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is rewritten so that no one has access to the printer.. not even the root user! So I rewrite it this way: Location / AuthType

[newbie] 9.0 DVD contents

2002-10-17 Thread Miark
Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread Bart Salien
Op Thursday 17 October 2002 20:01, schreef u: Mine worked after first erasing the old GLX files and afterwards installing the new nvidia GLX rpm . Also don't forget to change some setting in your XF86Config-4 (see nvidia docs). hello, tried to install some new nvid drivers for man 8.2, went

Re: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents

2002-10-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:49 pm, you wrote: Anybody have a clue what's on this CD? Mandrakestore doesn't say anything about it. Miark I sent an E-mail to Mandrake about it (you are talking about what they call the workstation DVD, right?). They told me it was basically the 7 CD

RE: [newbie] 9.0 DVD contents

2002-10-17 Thread Franki
I was going to buy mdk 9 on DVD, (last one I got was the 8.1 powerpack) decided to pay for 9.1 when it comes out instead.. I like nine, but there are some things that could be better... still, I will support mandrake for trying.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access

2002-10-17 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 3:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines

Re: [newbie] Mencoder results and questions

2002-10-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:08 am, you wrote: This is a very low bitrate for a video. I have used this only with a 2-Pass encode, as this bitrate with a 1-Pass encode doesn't give me satisfactory results. Yes, I upped it to 900 and was still able to fit it onto a single CD. Video was much

[newbie] Lockup on SCSI detection during installation

2002-10-17 Thread Barry Michels
I'm trying to install 9.0 on our old server at work. It's got an Adaptec AHA-2940UW PCI SCSI adaptor with a SCSI hard drive and an OnStream SC-50 tape drive. There's also a 40GB IDE drive. Right after selecting 'Expert' and Install, a window pops up that says: Installing driver for

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Piero Piutti wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address,

[newbie] Can't put my AMR V.90 modem to work

2002-10-17 Thread Pablo Gallo
I have a Duron 1200 XP, with a PCCHIPS 810 motherboard (with almost everything on-board) and an AMR V.90 win modem. I know that in general Linux systems don't support this kind of modems, but I'd like to find a driver to avoid buying a new modem, as this computer is new. Thanks! Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread Miark
The description at leaf says, it's primarily used as a gateway/ router/firewall for Internet leaf sites. What's a leaf site? Miark Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] saith: On Thursday 17 Oct 2002 7:55 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: If you have a *really* old spare computer, I recommend the

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system,

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. With the price of New PC's being in the moderate price range of 500 - 700 dollars for a fair system,

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

2002-10-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 01:13 AM 10/18/2002 +1300, you wrote: I know this is 3 months late but I just found the instructions on how to install a parallel zip drive after installing your system. In the past I couldn't do it and had to reinstall the system to get my zip drive working as I read somewhere that you had

[newbie] Vaio GRX560

2002-10-17 Thread Scott
Has anyone on the list installed Mandrake on the Vaio GRX560/570? I found a site on the net for instructions on installing Red Hat 7.3, you have to build a new kernel with some additional packages. Tried this practice with Mdk 9, but it failed. The patches were designed for kernel 2.4.18

Re: [newbie] Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9? [Replied]

2002-10-17 Thread G_REEPER
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pardon me while I catch up with the responses. 1. Yes oddly enough the urpmi *.rpm command does indeed work. 2. While flattered, I hadn't been considered a newbie since slackware 1.0 or so but thanks for making me feel young again. While moving

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread Barry Rountree
On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:32 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 02:55 PM 10/17/2002 -0400, you wrote: I must heartliy disagree here. If you're going to be connected via DSL or Cable connection the only prudent thing to do is errect a real firewall. Agreed. [snip] heh And i'm not stupid. But my

[newbie] Denied Access

2002-10-17 Thread Shannon Doyle
Hi People, I have 2 servers running mandrake 8.2 and am experiencing the following problem. My ip address that I am coming from is a static ip froma different range of that the server is on. Whenever I try to connect to the server via any method I cannont get access to it. However if I connect

Re: [newbie] [OT] Digital Choice and Freedom Act

2002-10-17 Thread Roland Hughes
Done. roly On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:02:39 + Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is great, Todd, thanks. My wife sent a letter to our representative asking him to support the act. If anybody out there want to write their representative but doesn't know how, do this: 1) Connect to

Re: [newbie] Can't put my AMR V.90 modem to work

2002-10-17 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 17 October 2002 05:39 pm, Charlie wrote: On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:41 pm, Pablo Gallo wrote: I have a Duron 1200 XP, with a PCCHIPS 810 motherboard (with almost everything on-board) and an AMR V.90 win modem. I know that in general Linux systems don't support this kind of

Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}

2002-10-17 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 17 October 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote: shane wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 1:35 pm, windwalker did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: My windows 98 crashed.. I went to do a re-install from CD.. NOW I find my CD badly

Re: [newbie] X, nVidia problems ...

2002-10-17 Thread Robert Beach
On Thursday 17 October 2002 03:03 pm, Bart Salien wrote: Op Thursday 17 October 2002 20:01, schreef u: Not Quite on the subject but pretty close. I have 9.0 installed and my GForce 4 is using the generic Nvidia driver right now. All I found at the nvidia site was for 8.2. I'm probably

Re: [newbie] Anyone got Supermount to work correctly in MDK 9?

2002-10-17 Thread Sharrea
G_REEPER wrote: snip Just to give you a blow by blow. I place the cd in and open it with the removable media link. It opens it fine and displays the contents of the cd. When I launch a shell to install the rpms I issue the urpmi *.rpms and I get no rpms found. I get the same if I

Re: [newbie] Let there be sound please?!?

2002-10-17 Thread Marcia
Thank you for your help. I changed my /etc/modules.conf to what was suggested by someone on this list to: alias sound-slot-0 snd-via8233 above snd-via8233 snd-pcm-oss and I turned off the soundserver where arts was enabled. After that now I have the startup system sound and probably I will

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

2002-10-17 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 1:15 pm, FemmeFatale wrote: At 01:13 AM 10/18/2002 +1300, Sharrea wrote: snip Anyway simple instructions are here: http://www.iomega.com/support/documents/10661.html I was surprised at just how simple it is! Took all of 2 minutes! Thx Sharrea! I was about to ask how

Re: [newbie] PPC

2002-10-17 Thread Erik
Not currentlyhowever, did install mdk 8.2 on iMac (first DVD/CDROM model) and it installed like a dream ... provided I added video=riva (for Nvidia card) on the install line and I set up the /boot partition between the basic MacOS and mdk. Now that Jaguar is out (10.2),OS X is MUCH more

[newbie] ident server

2002-10-17 Thread William Chan
Can anyone help me out with setting up an ident server on Mandrake 9.0? I found a HOWTO on it, except that it says to configure /etc/inetd.conf which I do not have ( got xinetd ) -William __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances,

Re: [newbie] MS BS {John Richard Smith}

2002-10-17 Thread Miark
Funny you should mention it; I just finished downloading Knoppix myself. I really want to download Virtual Linux because it's based on Mandrake, but releases have stopped in anticipation of MDK 9.0. I guess they're working on that now. That'll be cool if it works well. Miark Erylon Hines

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread shane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a Gateway/firewall setup and functioning well on a

[newbie] How to make a clicked link open in a tabbed Netscape window

2002-10-17 Thread Chris Edwards
How does one make a clicked url link open in a new tabbed window in Netscape. I already have html text files associated to open in Netscape but each time a link is clicked in the KNewsTicker, KDE wants to open an entirely new session/profile of Netscape rather than just simply loading the link

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:22 AM 10/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 17 October 2002 11:55 am, Mark Weaver did speak unto the huddled masses, saying: old P1-90Mhz machines out there for the asking. Get hold of one and make a real firewall. You can get a

Re: [newbie] X Problem on Compaq Presario 2710US

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Abby
I forgot to mention the video card is an ATI Radeon Mobility LY (AGP). I've tried the generic Radeon driver, the Radeon Mobility driver, and the Radeon Mobility what_ever_it_is driver. I've run a search in google for Mandrake and radeon mobility ly and came up with only one hit that was close

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Piero Piutti wrote: On Monday 14 October 2002 21:08, Eric S. Dye wrote: another good firewall program that i use is the black ice program and of course norton sells a good one as well. i wouldn't worry about broadcasting your I P address, but if you do a lot of surfing, you should consider a

Re: [newbie] Security alert

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Michael Adams wrote: Hands up all those that have had major isues trying to uninstall Bonzai Buddy from computers when it had been inadvertently downloaded. This would be a lot less of a problem in Linux even if the buddy came in an RPM. heh! :) well...you could always convert the source code

Re: [newbie] damn mandrake apache.!!! nothing in logs to tell mewhat the problem is.

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Sharrea wrote: On Wednesday 16 Oct 2002 1:42 am, Franki wrote: anway, the source of my problem is that apache is giving me no feedback on why it won't start. apachecrl configtest passses both httpd.com and httpd-perl.conf I have looked in /var/log/syslog and /var/log/messages and

Re: [newbie] New HD

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Tony S. Sykes wrote: Hi all, I have installed a new HD as a pri mast on my pc and moved the old pri mast to sec slave. It was a dual boot mdk9 and w2k. I have created the same on my new disk, but I cant get it to boot from the new mbr without the boot disk. It tries to load from the old mbr. How

Re: [newbie] test

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
ivette brusselmans wrote: Ah! shiza...you failed the test. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT-Gateway snubs Microsoft

2002-10-17 Thread Mark Weaver
Todd Slater wrote: In another blow to Microsoft, a fourth computer maker plans to bundle Corel's WordPerfect Office with its low-end consumer machines. http://news.com.com/2100-1040-962085.html Now if some of the biggies would just sell some puters without an OS! Todd Todd, You can order