Re: [newbie-it] raccolte

2002-11-04 Thread guido
quelli della linux pratico potevano pure dirlo subito che 4 numeri costavano 2,60 euro! m'hanno fatto pagare il primo numero (arretrato) ben 5 euro. Mi sa che lascio perdere le riviste di linux e compro per dispetto quelle di Winz guido - Original Message - From: Arwan [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] gogo

2002-11-04 Thread guido
manda alla lista il config di grip (nella cartella .grip in HOME) e forse qualcuno ti può aiutare (io con grip uso cdparan.. e bladeenc) guido - Original Message - From: mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 9:06 PM Subject: [newbie-it]

[newbie-it] Mandrake 9 ed interfaccia SCSI

2002-11-04 Thread Bigatt
Ho trovato la MK9 su una rivista ed ho cercato di installarla. I miei due lettori CD sono SCSI, gestiti da un Adaptec 2940U2W. Al boot l'Adaptec viene riconosciuto correttamente, ma non viene caricato il modulo corrispondente. Quindi i lettori non vengono riconosciuti ed il caricamento non va

Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti

2002-11-04 Thread Andrea Celli
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 22:03:46 +0100 Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: man cdrecord opzionicdrecord.txt il file di testo che ottengo e' piuttosto sporco. Come posso ovvaire il problema? Ci sono directory o file da cui recuparare le stesse info che mi da' il man, senza impazzire con

Re: [newbie-it] Configurazione kppp (Modem Conexant)

2002-11-04 Thread Andrea Celli
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 21:45:49 +0100 jv [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ATI4: 007840284C6002FbC6000r100551012000r30007000 (dire che non ne ho la minima idea è dire poco...) probabilmente è solo la parte finale di una stringa più lunga che puoi fare

[newbie-it] printer conf in MDK9.0

2002-11-04 Thread sebastiano arrigoni
salve a tutti, ho appena installato la MDK 9.0 con Gnome 2: fantastica. ho solo un problemino: nel drakconf, quando ho tentato di configurare le stampanti di rete del mio ufficio, il programma ha installato automaticamente i pacchetti necessari (e fin qui tutto bene), ma alla fine mi ha dato un

Re: [newbie-it] gogo

2002-11-04 Thread mario
Alle 10:03, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, hai scritto: manda alla lista il config di grip (nella cartella .grip in HOME) e forse qualcuno ti può aiutare (io con grip uso cdparan.. e bladeenc) guido - Original Message - From: mario [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday,

Re: [newbie-it] printer conf in MDK9.0

2002-11-04 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 13:26, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, hai scritto: salve a tutti, ho appena installato la MDK 9.0 con Gnome 2: fantastica. ho solo un problemino: nel drakconf, quando ho tentato di configurare le stampanti di rete del mio ufficio, il programma ha installato automaticamente i pacchetti necessari

Re: [newbie-it] allarmi angosce

2002-11-04 Thread Germano
Il 21:13, domenica 03 novembre 2002, Arwan hai scritto: Mi e' arrivata una mail, che riportero' tra asterischi, che mi indica che una mia lettera e' non e' arrivata a destinazione. Ma io non conosco il destinatario... e in allegato c'e' un file di tipo *.exe. E' possibile che qualche virus,

[newbie-it] accesso a partizioni... di altre distribuzioni

2002-11-04 Thread giamgax
Buona giornata alla lista. Ho installato la 9 su di un nuovo hd (hdb). Ho voluto mantenere la 8.2 sull'altro hd (hdb3, 5, swap) in comproprietà con win$ . Sul Lilo ho aggiunto la possibilità di accedere a hdb3, e qui cominciano i problemi. 1. Lilo mi propone solo l'immagine del kernel nuovo -

Re: [newbie-it] raccolte

2002-11-04 Thread Arwan
Alle 09:58, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] raccolte, guido hai scritto: quelli della linux pratico potevano pure dirlo subito che 4 numeri costavano 2,60 euro! m'hanno fatto pagare il primo numero (arretrato) ben 5 euro. Mi sa che lascio perdere le

Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti

2002-11-04 Thread Arwan
Alle 11:56, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] indici e appunti, Andrea Celli hai scritto: Per stampare la pagina man bisogna passare a groff l'opzione trasforma in PS con man -T cdrecord | lpr che trasforma in postscript e stampa. Per ora ho stampato la tua

Re: [newbie-it] allarmi angosce

2002-11-04 Thread Arwan
Alle 15:58, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, contorcendoti la mente su Re: [newbie-it] allarmi angosce, Germano hai scritto: Chiunque conosca il tuo indirizzo di posta può mandarti una e-mail facendoti credere che il mittente sia tu, Sapevo che era possibile, e non credo sia nemmeno molto difficile

[newbie-it] kpilot

2002-11-04 Thread mauro
Pare che non sia un argomento interessante, comunque vi informo che il palm 125 funziona benissimo sulla porta USB ma solo in mandrake 9. Mentre non funziona assolutamente con la 8.1, così ho scoperto spulciando in linea vari How-to sull'argomento. Ciao a tutti. Mauro

[newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot

2002-11-04 Thread Alessandro Salina
Questo è il mio problema: Sul mio pc sono presenti 2 HD 1) Master con installato W2000 2) Slave vuoto Ora vorrei installare linux Mandrake 9 sul secondo HD e vorrei avere una sorta di dual boot( ad esempio GRUB) Ora in futuro è probabile che debba staccare uno dei due dischie qui

Re: [newbie-it] installazione pacchetto gtk+-2.0.2

2002-11-04 Thread fulvio
Alle 22:05, domenica 3 novembre 2002, freefred ha scritto: On Sunday 03 November 2002 8:09 pm, fulvio wrote about [newbie-it] installazione pacchetto gtk+-2.0.2: Cerco di installare il pacchetto in oggetto ma con ./configure alla fine ottengo: checking for X11/Xft/XftFreetype.h... no

[newbie-it] matrox g450 etv sintonizzatore tv 9.0

2002-11-04 Thread paolo brusasco
buonasera a tutti. ho la scheda in oggetto su una installazione mand 9.0 download. qualcuno sa se esiste un modo di fare funzionare il sintonizzatore tv? su rpmfind ci sono cose tipo xawtv e zapping oppure, se ci sono schede tv compatibili e configurabili? (nel database hardware di mandrake non

Re: [newbie-it] Linux su un secondo HD - DualBoot

2002-11-04 Thread sandro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 22:15, lunedì 4 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Questo è il mio problema: Sul mio pc sono presenti 2 HD 1) Master con installato W2000 2) Slave vuoto Ora vorrei installare linux Mandrake 9 sul secondo HD e vorrei avere una sorta di

Re: [newbie] Wireless

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick Griffin
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 10:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Wireless Patrick. Do you hear the 'beeps' when pcmcia service starts? No Have a look in syslog (/var/log/syslog) for messages relating

Re: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread FemmeFatale
At 09:28 PM 11/3/2002 -0600, you wrote: A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have always

RE: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread FemmeFatale
At 05:58 AM 11/4/2002 +0200, you wrote: A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Downloadable books for free:

Re: [newbie] installation with laplink...

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 05:01, harry wrote: thanks to Franki, I will install 7.0 version on my laptop!! it only has 16mb RAM. could anyone help me figure out how to transfer the installation file onto the laptop hard drive via laplink? that is all I have, aside from 1.2 gb hardrive

Re: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 04:28, Marc wrote: A friend and I have been discussing linux in general and Mandrake in particular. below is part of a email that I received from him. Can anyone suggest some good reading material for this guy? Thanks all Marc Personaly I have

RE: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread Aaron
hi I found the other book. rute it is called. http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html.gz I still think that the best starting place is think unix. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Marc Sent: ?a 04 ?aaiao 2002 5:28? To:

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 8:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:47:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd Jan. I had been using the right click, so didn't find it. OK, so what I need now is the ability to print reference sheets (equiv. contact prints). Do you know

Re: [newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 01:19, Angus Auld wrote: Peter Watson wrote: I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 8:52 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 17:47:56 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Todd Jan. I had been using the right click, so didn't find it. OK, so what I need now is the ability to print reference sheets (equiv. contact prints). Do you know

[newbie] vncserver probs...

2002-11-04 Thread Franki
Hi guys, I am trying to get vncserver working on a box.. I have it running as my user, and if I log into it from another machine, there is just a pretty blue screen, no menu, no nothing,.. there is a moving mouse, but no menu's or any other action on right or left click.. anyone have any idea

[newbie] smbtar exclude flag

2002-11-04 Thread robin
Has anyone got smbtar working with the exclude flag to back up all files except a certain type (e.g. *.exe)? Whenever I try something like smbtar -s morpheus -p !u12aS -x My\ Documents -X -t morpheus.tar -v *.exe it excludes _all_ files; i.e. I get a tar file of 0 bytes. Sir Robin -- You

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

2002-11-04 Thread g
Angus Auld wrote: btw. http://www.linuxiso.org/ does not store files on site, but provides ftp links to other sites. if your files fail md5, try there links. they are fast, if you catch a slow link, break it, try again. you will rotate thru list of links. If it's an md5sum checker for

RE: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Urwin
The suggestion is not entirely out-to-lunch. Computers certainly used to use the line frequency for the real-time clock; the PDP-11 comes to mind. In fact the line frequency is a better solution than crystal because, at least here in the UK, the _average_ line frequency is guaranteed to be 50Hz

Re: [newbie] Quicktime in Netscape - OT?

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 03 November 2002 04:44 pm, you wrote: Try Codeweavers' Crossover-plugin. It has direct support for quicktime. Don't know about Netscape, but I can vouch for Galeon and the Crossover plugin. MOVs and Flash animations work great (once you d/l them, of course). :-) --

Re: [newbie] wine

2002-11-04 Thread Flux
Joe, When I received errors like that, it was because I was trying to run a program via WINE from a directory that wasn't mapped in WINE. In other words, you're trying to run a program in directory A, but there is no Drive mapping in the WINE config file for directory A. I could have

[newbie] PPC installation problems with GeForce Video Card

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick, Robert W (CAP, CORP)
Does anyone have advice on installing Mandrake 8.2PPC on a dual 1Ghz Mac? I have had zero success with installing and using Linux with this system. The system is a Dual 1Ghz Apple (Quicksilver, I think) Video card is a Nvidia GeForce4 MX And it uses the USB sound system and the

RE: [newbie] vncserver probs...

2002-11-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Frank, Did you log this session out, or did you close vnc. If you close down vnc, then restart it you will be right where you left it. If you log the session out (as I did) it just sticks there not knowing what to do next. I have not read the docs on this but I assume it is because you start the

[newbie] Problems starting KDE

2002-11-04 Thread Rodrigo Borghette Schmidt
Hello all, Constantly, when I start KDE it crashes and I've been solving this problem by deleting the ksocket-rodrigo dir at /tmp and .DCOPserver at /home/rodrigo. The problem appeared after installing Gnome, what I did very recently. I am running mdk8.2 and the latest update rpms were installed.

RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Carter, If you have got webmin running all you have to do is http://www.yourdomain.com:1/ and it should be fine. Tony. -Original Message- From: H. Carter Harris [mailto:carter-lists;technettn.net] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Newbie

RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Oooops, https not http. Tony. -Original Message- From: H. Carter Harris [mailto:carter-lists;technettn.net] Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2002 6:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Newbie Orientation I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring up

[newbie] tamil support

2002-11-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have chosen and installed tamil as language in mandrake. I get a few menu options and dialog boxes with Tamil language. Already I have tamil support and fonts. I have tamil fonts tsc-*** and tscakaram etc. I have tamil language added and selected. In keyboard also I added tml. I have

[newbie] scanimage error

2002-11-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have astra 2000P got working after installing sane-backends-1.0.9 tar file. Now it works only as root. When I set +s to scanimage and use as user, I get following error. [lvgandhilocalhost lvgandhi]$ scanimage --format out.tiff [umax_pp_low] SendWord failed got 0xE8 instead of 0xC0 or 0xD0

Re: [newbie] tamil support

2002-11-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have chosen and installed tamil as language in mandrake. I get a few menu options and dialog boxes with Tamil language. Already I have tamil support and fonts. I have tamil fonts tsc-*** and tscakaram etc. I have tamil language added and

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:11:47AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried the montage command with what seemed like reasonable options, there was a good deal of disk activity, then the prompt returned with 'Killed' report. Could it be that the contents of the directory were to big to manage?

[newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies

2002-11-04 Thread tek1
i've been using windows quite a bit, but slowly making the move to linux. :) lately, i installed opera6 on linux. downloading the rpm and installing it was easy, but post-installation, i wasn't able to find where the opera executable was. knowing rpm command line and other commands, it's

[newbie] sound problems.

2002-11-04 Thread Franki
Hi guys... I have a IBM300PL, a 200mmx box, and I am trying to get it to play a wav file.. playwave /home/franki/sound.wav it plays the first second, then it stops.. xmmx can play mp3's fine, the cdaudio works but it won't play wav files.. its bizaar... sndconfig finds the card, it

Re: [newbie] wine

2002-11-04 Thread jbarron201
Thank,s I,ll ask at my LUG,s meeting this weekend. JOE BARRON Joe, When I received errors like that, it was because I was trying to run a program via WINE from a directory that wasn't mapped in WINE. In other words, you're trying to run a program in directory A, but there is no Drive

[newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-04 Thread T C
Yesterday I tried to use xmms, starting it from the menu (K - Multimedia - Sound - Xmms). The only thing that happened was an xmms indicator appeared on the panel with the hour glass turning, then after about a minute it disappeared. Xmms did not run. I opened a terminal window and as a user typed

Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies

2002-11-04 Thread robin
tek1 wrote: i've been using windows quite a bit, but slowly making the move to linux. :) lately, i installed opera6 on linux. downloading the rpm and installing it was easy, but post-installation, i wasn't able to find where the opera executable was. knowing rpm command line and other

[newbie] Laptop screen shifted

2002-11-04 Thread Flux
Has anyone thought of anything else I can try with this laptop? As far as I know, I'm using the latest drivers with XFree86 4.xx and I can't figure it out. Again, the last install of ML9.0 on this very laptop did not have the problem, but now it pops up again. I've already reinstalled ML9.0

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-04 Thread Paul
In reply to T's mail, d.d. Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:12:36 -0800 (PST): It seems that xmms is accessed wrongly. The menu probably points to a non-existing location. In a term type which xmms (here it is /usr/bin/xmms) and note the path to it. If you can, edit the menu and check if xmms is called in

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
The command called upon from the menu is soundwrapper xmms whereas what you're typing from the commandline is probably just xmms. I don't know what soundwrapper does, but I imagine if you remove that from the menu entry using menudrake, it'll fix the problem. This isn't a great solution. I would

Re: [newbie] Laptop screen shifted

2002-11-04 Thread Technoslick
I had problems with MDK 9.0/Xfree86 4.2.x on my desktop because of the S3 Savage 2000 video card. When I reloaded a fresh install to allow for multi-booting into XP Pro, I elected to install XFree86 3.x.x instead. Ever since, I have none of the original problems that I had with the newer server.

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

2002-11-04 Thread Michael
Thanks for the advice. I'll order the pizza pick up the wine, drop off the kids and do the expert install. Michael On Saturday 02 November 2002 06:27 am, ET wrote: well... since it is _your_ wife my advice would be; get a pizza, a bottle of wine, put the kids over at grammy's, give

Re: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
I went to this web site, and it knocked me on my ass with laughter. Go to http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book with Konqueror or Mozilla and see what IE [l]users see. This may be nothing new to most of you, but it was to me. Miark On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:53:16 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [newbie] Dog-slow networking

2002-11-04 Thread Franki
I have noticed that on my 8.2 system, the rtl8139 card is significantly slower then the other card in the system (intel ether express 10/100+).. I have also heard it said that that is quiet a common complaint.. do you have another card you can try?? I have an old 10+ card that most of the time

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your DVDs will now play as they did in 8.2. To make the change permanent, add it to

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-04 Thread T C
Thanks for the replies, I'll check them out when I get home this evening. TC --- Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The command called upon from the menu is soundwrapper xmms whereas what you're typing from the commandline is probably just xmms. I don't know what soundwrapper does, but I imagine

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 04 November 2002 12:08 pm, you wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your DVDs will now play as they

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even if you use scsi emulation). Your DVDs will now play as they

Re: [newbie] Laptop screen shifted

2002-11-04 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 4 2002 10:09 am, Flux wrote: Has anyone thought of anything else I can try with this laptop? As far as I know, I'm using the latest drivers with XFree86 4.xx and I can't figure it out. Again, the last install of ML9.0 on this very laptop did not have the problem, but now

[newbie] kio_thumbnail hogging system resources

2002-11-04 Thread PBone
Several times now while runnig KDE on M9 I have noticed that my computer becomes very unresponsive and the hard drive becomes very active. I think it mainly happens when I am on the net (I use mozilla). When (after a long time) I have been able to do a ps aux I find a process kio_thumbnail

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 00:33:31 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Miark. My question is: Why? Everyone one knows that you really need DMA turned on for these devices, so why does Dolphin turn it off? I didn't ask. I speculate it was to improve compatibility, even at the expense of

Re: [newbie] clock help

2002-11-04 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 13:42:08 - Richard Urwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The suggestion is not entirely out-to-lunch. Computers certainly used to use the line frequency for the real-time clock; the PDP-11 comes to mind. In fact the line frequency is a better solution than crystal because,

Re: [newbie] Linux book in normal english

2002-11-04 Thread Sharrea
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 5:57 am, Miark wrote: I went to this web site, and it knocked me on my ass with laughter. Go to http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book with Konqueror or Mozilla and see what IE [l]users see. This may be nothing new to most of you, but it was to me. Miark ROFLMAO!

[newbie] Thought you all might like this. :-)

2002-11-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Check it out: http://www.deskmod.com/?state=viewskin_id=18819 -- /\ Dark Lord \/

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 04 November 2002 18:53, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Monday November 4 2002 11:08 am, Miark wrote: Wooky, MDK 9.0 turns DMA -off- for CD and DVDs by default. Go to the command line as root, and type hdparm -d1 /dev/hdx where x represents your DVD drive. (Use the hdx notation, even

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Technoslick
You found the same thing that I did! Neither of us had 'hdparm' installed. Once I installed 'hdparm', I had the 'harddisks' file in my /etc/sysconfig directory. I followed Tom Brinkman's instructions and it worked! :-) T - Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

[newbie] Savage4 X

2002-11-04 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dilluns 04 Novembre 2002 17:51, en Technoslick va escriure: I had problems with MDK 9.0/Xfree86 4.2.x on my desktop because of the S3 Savage 2000 video card. When I reloaded a fresh install to allow for multi-booting into XP Pro, I elected to

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Technoslick
Dark Lord and Harm, I know that I have had this discussion here with others before, but...if you check in /etc/sysconfig/rc.sysinit, scroll down until you find the section that deals with turning DMA on for drives... (as quoted) # Turn off DMA on CD-ROMs. It more often than not causes problems.

Re: [newbie] Savage4 X

2002-11-04 Thread Technoslick
Joan, From what I have been able to gather, all the S3 Savage chipsets had some similar problems both under Windows and Linux. I have not installed 8.2 on the computer using the S3 Savage 2000 video card; just 9.0. However, my guess is that this really an X-server problem, not a distro problem,

[newbie] Adding to OpenOffice gallery for all users

2002-11-04 Thread Warren Post
It's easy enough to add items to OpenOffice's gallery for one user. But how do you add items so that they will be available to all, without having to install the same items separately for each user? I copied a number of images to subdirectories of OpenOffice's shared gallery directory,

[newbie] M9.0 and GRIP V 3.0.1

2002-11-04 Thread John Richard Smith
One of Grip's more endearing features is it's ability to read track info of each wave file on any CD and display the track information. Try as I may I cannot seem to get this function to work on discs known to have this information on them and proven to work in M8.2 's version of Grip. For

[newbie] Installing 8.1 packages on 8.2

2002-11-04 Thread Warren Post
I've just switched from 8.1 download edition to 8.2 Power Pack and like it. But there are some 8.1 packages that I'd like to use in 8.2, for example: * Blackbox (present on the 8.1 disks, not on 8.2) * findutils (the 8.1 package contains slocate, 8.2 does not) * Some themes for IceWM and XMMS

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 2:58 pm, you wrote: On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:11:47AM +, Anne Wilson wrote: I tried the montage command with what seemed like reasonable options, there was a good deal of disk activity, then the prompt returned with 'Killed' report. Could it be that the contents

Re: [newbie] Savage4 X

2002-11-04 Thread Technoslick
Joan, From what I have been able to gather, all the S3 Savage chipsets had some similar problems both under Windows and Linux. I have not installed 8.2 on the computer using the S3 Savage 2000 video card; just 9.0. However, my guess is that this really an X-server problem, not a distro problem,

[newbie]

2002-11-04 Thread Louis Dallara
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Re: [newbie] vnc

2002-11-04 Thread Patrick Griffin
sorry my mistake read all the previous mail on the subject using 8.2 - Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] vnc On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:53 pm, Patrick Griffin wrote: Hi All,

Re: [newbie] DVD playback performance (9.0)

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
Why is that better, Tom? Miark On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:53:02 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That'll work, but a better way is to (as root): 'cd /etc/sysconfig' (edit 'harddisks', and remove the # in front of 'USE_DMA=1') 'cp harddisks harddiskhd?' where ? is the

Re: [newbie] vnc

2002-11-04 Thread Derek Jennings
I do not know if there is a specific startup script for vnc in 8.2, but you could always put this command in a script which gets executed at boot like /etc/rc.local This line will run a single command as the named user. su username -c 'vncserver -geometry 800x600 -depth 16 :2' (just put it

Re: [newbie] tamil support

2002-11-04 Thread L.V.Gandhi
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 8:22 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 04 Nov 2002 1:31 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I have chosen and installed tamil as language in mandrake. I get a few menu options and dialog boxes with Tamil language. Already I have tamil support and fonts. I have tamil fonts tsc-***

Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 18:46:33 -0500 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's a script I wrote--I call it mover.sh, but call it what you like. It will make subdirectories inside a directory full of images, and move 20 images to each subdirectory. Duh, had a typo--forgot to close a quote.

Montage script, was Re: [newbie] The Gimp

2002-11-04 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 21:07:48 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm definitely interested. I've got to get these out quickly, so I'll be using my old windows program to print the contact sheets, but by next weekend I hope to have time to really get to grips with this. It sounds

RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation

2002-11-04 Thread H. Carter Harris
Thanks Tony! ... It is working now ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:newbie-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Tony S. Sykes Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 8:35 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Newbie Orientation Carter, If you have got webmin

RE: [newbie] vnc

2002-11-04 Thread Franki
why not just use ntsysv and check the vncserver box??? (or use services in MCC) you will need to create a passwd for it.. log in as the user that you want to serve.. and run vncpasswd, it will create a passwd file in /home/user/.vnc I think you have to indicate which displays to create

Re: [newbie] scanimage error

2002-11-04 Thread Pilagá
El Lun 04 Nov 2002 19:08, escribió: I have astra 2000P got working after installing sane-backends-1.0.9 tar file. Now it works only as root. When I set +s to scanimage and use as user, I get following error. [lvgandhi@localhost lvgandhi]$ scanimage --format out.tiff [umax_pp_low] SendWord

[newbie] evangelism part 2

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Babcock
I got an email from my son at 6:56 pm saying he had successfully created a set of ML 9.0 disks and was off 'to kill his computer.' At 8:22 pm I got a second email saying 9.0 was installed and working. He knows nothing about Linux and hadn't even heard of Mandrake until I told him about it a little

Re: [newbie] best way to find things out

2002-11-04 Thread iggy
On Monday 04 November 2002 02:57 am, Russell W. Behne wrote: Yesterday at 18:17, Tim Werner wrote: Someone posted a documentation question earlier and got a pretty good answer, but I'm still trying to figure out the best way to find things out. I guess I'm a little spoiled by MSDN. For

[newbie] lan installation

2002-11-04 Thread Richard Babcock
I'm trying to perform an internet installation of ML 9.0 on my Cyrix 686 but the installation disk doesn't recognize the Boca Lan 2000 card. I am currently running ML 8.2 and can successfully navigate the web. There must be some way for me to find out what settings 8.2 is using to connect me to

[newbie] Mandrake menu

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Anybody know of a way to get rid of the Mandrake menu on the gnome panel? - Paul Rodriguez Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] detachable menus in gnome

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Rodriguez
Hi, terry. I tried this, but it didn't work. Is it working for you? - Paul On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 14:29, Terry Sheltra wrote: Paul, If you go to the website: http://art.gnome.org Under the tips section (I believe), there is an walkthrough explaining just that. Terry Paul

Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies

2002-11-04 Thread chad ramsey
robin: For us new to linux wanting to get away from windows and microsoft. Atleast make it where when installing and rpm to give us an option to an easily accessible icon or entry to the program we are trying to install. Heck, if linux would make things easier then there would be no such

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed again

2002-11-04 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002 06:10:06 + Len Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Steve. Did not know about tabbing. And the 'other' tab in common preferences was hidden. The default entry mozilla -remote 'openURL(%s,raise)' corrupts the URL. mozilla '%s' works fine. Change

Re: [newbie] making rpm installation easier for newbies

2002-11-04 Thread Jester DEV
I agree. For the average computer user windows simplicity just cant be beat. Linux would be 10 times more popular then it is now if only the simplicity was there. It took me quite sometime to learn about rpm files and installation. Which is not something for say my wife. She would have

[newbie] For anyone having trouble with mysql

2002-11-04 Thread Tony Castro
If you get the following error after installing mysql binary distro exactly as specifed and running bin/safe_mysqld --user=mysql Can't change to run as user 'mysql'. Make sure user exists! Use mysql version 3.23.48 or lower. This had me confused for a couple weeks. This should fix it. If it

[newbie] SV: [newbie] Re: Frånvaro, autosvar:[expert] Changing GUI login to CLI login

2002-11-04 Thread Anders Lind
He is just telling us he is away and will be back on thursday, should perhaps check his autoresponder LOL /Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Adding music in ERoaster

2002-11-04 Thread Miark
I'm trying to burn an audio CD with ERoaster. When I bring up the dialog to add ogg or mp3 files, they just won't get get into the list. Any ideas? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com