[newbie-it] Acerscan

2002-11-01 Thread stormymonday
Salve a tutti leggendo alcuni documenti ho scoperto che il mio scanner è fra quelli non supportati si tratta di un acerscan prisa600 come posso fare? (oltre che cambiarlo?) Se gentilmente qualcuno mi può aiutare o almeno darmi qualche dritta dal momento che nn mi posso definire un espertone...ah

RE: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Urwin
Three hours a day sounds like Linux is mis-understanding some clock rate on your system. Maybe a mismatch between some motherboard part and the corresponding driver. I should check the motherboard manufacturer's web-site and do a web search with Linux and the motherboard model. Have you

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and Supermount

2002-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael Notforyou wrote: On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 10:28, John Richard Smith wrote: At last I found the time to get M9.0 on in dual boot with M8.2 last night. I can now see the problems with supermount. The straight install creates:- fstab none /mnt/cdrom supermount

Re: [newbie] Linux w/ Win98SE

2002-11-01 Thread bascule
hey flux, why not use an ntfs partitions for the win system, you will be able to mount it read only noproblem in linux, and use a shared fat partition if you want to write stuff to a place that win can see, for all the problems that win is accused of having ntfs is definitely a more secure

Re: [newbie] ML9.0 on Laptop

2002-11-01 Thread Michael Notforyou
What type of video card is in the Evo N150? I have a Compaq Presario 730US, and I think that installing a third-party Savage driver might help your problem IF it has the same video card as the 700 series. On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 23:56, Flux wrote: Maybe someone can help me... I surely hope so. I

Re: [newbie] Writing W2K NTFS partition?

2002-11-01 Thread Michael Notforyou
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 02:21, Markus Bela wrote: Can I write W2 NTFS file system with MADK 9.0? Eralier this was poaaible to read only. Yes and no. It IS possible to write to an NTFS filesystem. Though strongly not recommended. Microsoft has refused to release the inner workings of NTFS, and

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
That may be, Kesav! I am not as familiar with Grub, so I stick with what little I know of LILO. After some research, I deduced that the way to do this was to remove the timeout=100 line in lilo.conf. Now, when the system boots up, it brings me to MDK's graphical boot screen and sits there until I

Re: [newbie] Writing W2K NTFS partition?

2002-11-01 Thread bascule
technically you can, but by all accounts you still might as well throw a d12 to determine if your files remain uncorrupted! mount read only and use a shared fat partition if you wish to transfer files between os's bascule On Friday 01 Nov 2002 7:21 am, Markus Bela wrote: Can I write W2 NTFS

Re: [newbie] Problems Installing NVIDIA drivers on a DELL laptop

2002-11-01 Thread Steve Jeppesen
Go to step 2. on this page, http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=linux_display_1.0-3123 and you will find all instructions needed for either src.rpm or tar.gz formats. And it is explained in detail easy enough for a NooB like me to understand! In fact, I bookmark that web page so I can refer to

Re: [newbie] LILO Settings

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
I have not as yet figured out how to do this graphically, but editing the lilo.conf file in /etc seems to do this well enough. I would suggest making a specifically named backup copy of 'lilo.conf' (like lilo.conf.orig) so that the original can't be overwritten while you play around with the

Re: [newbie] cant mount /dev/scd0 for cd-burner

2002-11-01 Thread John Richard Smith
drwhat wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 howdy all... I seem to have recently developed a problem in mounting my cd-burner... just recently, when I try to mount my cd-burner with: mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom I get the following error: mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid

Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-01 Thread Bob Read
Sounds like the system clock is set for 50Hz power line frequency, and you are using 60Hz power line. Bob Richard Urwin wrote: Three hours a day sounds like Linux is mis-understanding some clock rate on your system. Maybe a mismatch between some motherboard part and the corresponding

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-11-01 Thread JM5379
i've used both lilo and grub; grub has many advantages, though an intuitive understaqnding of their syntax is not necessarily one of them *g*. one of the best benefits i've discovered is that with grub as your bootloader it will *safely* overwrite the mbr on an ntfs system, allowing for dual-boot

Re: [newbie] LILO Settings

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
Ooops! I forgot to tell you that you need to change the line that says default=linux to reflect the label of whatever you decide to make your default boot option, if in fact this will be different. Sorry! :-( T - Original Message - From: Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] ML9.0 on Laptop

2002-11-01 Thread Flux
The video card is a Trident Cyberblade X1, I believe. In ML9, that would be the Trident Cyberblade (generic) driver. Here's the catch, though - I had installed RH7.3 with the same problem, then flushed that out and installed ML9.0 the first time and it was perfect, as I describe below. ...

Re: [newbie] how to install windows and still have lilo?

2002-11-01 Thread Technoslick
Before lanman's post (showing how to start off with Linux, regardless of the other O/S's to be installed), I re-did mine by loading XP Pro first, then MDK 9 afterward. LILO overwrote the MBR just fine and now gives me a rather smart looking graphical boot menu to choose my flavor from. I really

[newbie] Shorewall: how to get a report?

2002-11-01 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! I've used Mandrake Control Center to set up the firewall (shorewall)... but I'd like to have info about what it's doing (unauthorized/autorized accesses, etc). Is there any app to inform about that? Better graphical app than text...

[newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille

2002-11-01 Thread Paul Rodriguez
If I upgrade my Mandrake box from 8.2 to 9.0 what steps should I take to integrate these 2 firewalls. Since I am currently running Bastille, can I turn of bastille and turn on shorewall? Absent the hardening features, will this present me a good firewall? Will turning off bastille, and the

Re: [newbie] Writing W2K NTFS partition?

2002-11-01 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote: technically you can, but by all accounts you still might as well throw a d12 to determine if your files remain uncorrupted! mount read only and use a shared fat partition if you wish to transfer files between os's bascule On Friday 01 Nov 2002 7:21

RE: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille

2002-11-01 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Shorewall vs. Bastille So far Paul I can not get Bastille to run in 9.0, not even the latest and greatest, compiles to the end then says 9.0 is not currently supported. So Shorewall or IPCOP are your current choices. Shorewall is in there so that is the one I would try

[newbie] newbie@linux-mandrake.com

2002-11-01 Thread Christian Goldstein
Hiya! First of all, I'm new to the whole mailing-list thing, so please don't kill me if I do something stupid ^_^ That said, I was wondering whether anyone knows how to change the TCP/IP settings (more precisely the MTU value) as I need to lower it so that I can few certain websites. Thanks

Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-01 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Uhm, I don't think the power line frequency has anything to do with timing in computers like PC's that use crystals for timing :) On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 08:59:46 -0500 Bob Read [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like the system clock is set for 50Hz power line frequency, and you are using 60Hz

Re: [newbie] cant mount /dev/scd0 for cd-burner

2002-11-01 Thread Robin Turner
Sharrea, you will never get a job in system administration or tech support - you're too damned honest! Sir Robin Sharrea wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 8:23 am, Sharrea wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 5:50 pm, drwhat wrote: snip append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi Have you tried

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-01 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 15:09, Charlie wrote: Hi all; This may actually be off topic but I figured someone else might need a chuckle too. http://www.schoolnet.na/pr/msftrelease.html I found it amusing but then I'm a sick puppy. :-) Charlie, You're right. It was funny! I especially

Re: [newbie] Writing W2K NTFS partition?

2002-11-01 Thread FemmeFatale
At 03:49 PM 11/1/2002 +, you wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 12:11 pm, you wrote: technically you can, but by all accounts you still might as well throw a d12 to determine if your files remain uncorrupted! mount read only and use a shared fat partition if you wish to transfer files between

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and Supermount

2002-11-01 Thread Miark
Works fine for me :-) Do you have autofs running by any chance? Miark John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... So , has anyone got supermount to work in M9.0 with scsi-emulation? John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] M9.0 and Supermount

2002-11-01 Thread Miark
supermount disable will only work temporarily. To write the change to fstab, you need to supermount -i disable. Miark On 31 Oct 2002 17:52:34 -0500 Michael Notforyou [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your best bet is to screw supermount,if you can deal with mount and umount (not that hard). Change

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-01 Thread Andy
i don't know if im allowed to sorta bump this message, sorry if i do, but i really want help on this :-/ - Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Scanner probs Well as of right now I don't have

Re: [newbie] [OT?] Thanks M$ but no thanks.

2002-11-01 Thread Miark
This is my take on it too. I'm optomistic that despite the any gov't's failed attempt to break their foot off in Gates' ass, the world at large is smarter and will eventually relegate M$ to just another computer company. Granted, it's perhaps overly optomistic, but I'm that kinda guy :-) Miark

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 01 Nov 2002 11:19 pm, Andy wrote: i don't know if im allowed to sorta bump this message, sorry if i do, but i really want help on this :-/ - Original Message - From: Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 6:40 PM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Win98 / Mandrake8.2 dual boot question

2002-11-01 Thread bascule
hi, i have a feeling that to repartition and stuff you will need to do an 'expert' install, any auto allocation by the installer will not take into account any partitions you wish to create for win, though it might leave existing ones alone, if you are going to wipe the win to reinstall then

[newbie] .kmail files

2002-11-01 Thread Chris
In the directory .kmail/tmp-dhcppc0 I have a bunch of directories and other .tmp files. Are these necessary or can they be deleted? I have directories such as kmail12564, kmail13295, etc.. -- Regards Chris Registered Linux user #283774 http://counter.li.org 6:57pm up 11 days,

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-01 Thread Andy
I usually try to scan images in XSane, but XSane can't capture any imaging devices what soever. And when I click the configuration for my scanner, it's says it's downloading packages to install the driver, but it just kreezes up ( and sometimes crashes KDE) - Original Message - From: Derek

[newbie] modem setup for Toshiba 1805-s204

2002-11-01 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi I was able to load Mandrake 9.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 1805-s204 and everything works well except that I cannot use my internal modem yet. The internal networking card is working fine. I am suspecting an IRQ conflict or the need to edit a file somewhere. Can someone guide me through this

Re: [newbie] Scanner probs

2002-11-01 Thread Derek Jennings
Well if it is not able to install all the SANE RPMs then of course it will not capture images. You may have a bad update source defined. Take a look at the sources in Mandrake ControlCentreSoftwareSoftwareSources Try replacing your update source with this one .

Re: [newbie] modem setup for Toshiba 1805-s204

2002-11-01 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 1:16 am, Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I was able to load Mandrake 9.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 1805-s204 and everything works well except that I cannot use my internal modem yet. The internal networking card is working fine. I am suspecting an IRQ conflict or the need to edit

Re: [newbie] modem setup for Toshiba 1805-s204

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jim Snyder wrote: Hi I was able to load Mandrake 9.0 on my Toshiba Satellite 1805-s204 and everything works well except that I cannot use my internal modem yet. The internal networking card is working fine. I am suspecting an IRQ conflict or the need to edit a file somewhere. Can someone

Re: [newbie] .kmail files

2002-11-01 Thread Pilagá
El Vie 01 Nov 2002 22:00, Chris escribió: In the directory .kmail/tmp-dhcppc0 I have a bunch of directories and other .tmp files. Are these necessary or can they be deleted? I have directories such as kmail12564, kmail13295, etc.. Hola, Chris. In /home/carlos I don't have all this

[newbie] Wireless

2002-11-01 Thread Patrick Griffin
Hi All, Running mandrake 8.2 and I'm trying to install a plx wireless carrier with an Orinoco wireless card. Tried reading the how to's with no success. Can any one step me through how to add this module. Hardware reports an unknown device. Thanks in advance Regards pat

[newbie] rsync..

2002-11-01 Thread Damian
hi. uhm.. kinda embarassed here, but i think i don't quite get the man page and dunno what i'm supposed to do here. ( i lost my mail archive recently so i have no choice but to ask.. ) what parameters do i use to rsync a file? i mean, i have a partial/corrupt/whatever ( it's a Mandrake ISO, and

Re: [newbie] cant mount /dev/scd0 for cd-burner

2002-11-01 Thread drwhat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 November 2002 09:11 am, John Richard Smith wrote: snip IF I mount the cd-drive as /dev/hdc then I can read from the drive... but it wont mount as /dev/scd0, so that I can burn cd's. drwhat try,in terminal, # mount /dev/scd0

[newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?

2002-11-01 Thread Antonio R.
Hello everybody: I’ve just downloaded the ISO files of mandrake and I want to check if they are not corrupted or unusable with the md5sums.90 file, but I don’t know how this is done. I went to http://www.etree.org/md5com.html and I tried to follow the instructions there but I don’t understand

Re: [newbie] What do I do with the md5sums.90 file?

2002-11-01 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 02 November 2002 12:56 am, Antonio R. wrote: Hello everybody: I’ve just downloaded the ISO files of mandrake and I want to check if they are not corrupted or unusable with the md5sums.90 file, but I don’t know how this is done. I went to http://www.etree.org/md5com.html and I

Re: [newbie] cant mount /dev/scd0 for cd-burner

2002-11-01 Thread drwhat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 November 2002 11:23 am, you wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 5:50 pm, drwhat wrote: snip append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi Have you tried /dev/hdc=ide-scsi (with /dev/ before hdc)? snip append=failsafe

Re: [newbie] cant mount /dev/scd0 for cd-burner

2002-11-01 Thread drwhat
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 01 November 2002 12:31 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Saturday 02 Nov 2002 8:23 am, Sharrea wrote: On Friday 01 Nov 2002 5:50 pm, drwhat wrote: snip append=devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi Have you tried /dev/hdc=ide-scsi (with /dev/

[newbie] Problems Installing Python2.2.2

2002-11-01 Thread yaya
Hi all! I just downloaded the 'Python2.2.2.tar' file and as I am a new user I have no idea on how to install it. I have successfully extracted the compressed file. The Readme file that came along with states the following: To start building right away (on UNIX): type ./configure in the current

[newbie] The attachments

2002-11-01 Thread Eric Richards
Hi I joined the group today, why do all Emails have attachments? From Eric NO ATTACHMENT WAS SENT WITH THIS EMAIL, IF THERE IS ONE, IT IS A UNDETECTED VIRUS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW.. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version:

[newbie] test

2002-11-01 Thread Richard Babcock
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