bascule wrote:
the word 'you' and a ? are missing, the sentence below is a question not a
statement!
bascule
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, bascule wrote:
john,
are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or
cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description f
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote:
> I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com
> BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the
> Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can
> see on the card that it was made by Haup
I have that as well,
but thats ok, I had already gotten the download edition, and it has the 3rd
CD.
why don't you just download it its only 450mb, you got the two big 700mb
ones with the mag.
even on dialup, 450mb is only a couple of days
rgds
Frank
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F
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 13:13, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
> Haven't you noticed that at times when installing it will ask for the 3rd CD,
> the internationl one? That you don't have? And neither do I, as the third
> CD that comes with the mag is not the third CD it's asking for. I'd rather
> have the
That is the same reason I ask I have a cad I need,this
weekend some of the guys in our local LUG want to try it
in Crossover Office.
Joe Barron
> > 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
>
> 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'm having trouble get
> Dang...and to think that I got my MDK 9.0 on Monday...(for $9.80AUD
> along with my APC mag from the newsagents)...is Australia really that
> far ahead of the rest of the world? (g)
Haven't you noticed that at times when installing it will ask for the 3rd CD,
the internationl one? That you don
> Anyone know when it will hit the stores in the USA Don't know why I
> would want to buy it though, can't get 9.0 to install on my computer
> anyway..have a conflict that I can't find...have no problems with 8.2.
> Tried installing redhat 8.0 and the installation stopped at the same
> point a
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 12:24, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said,
> > they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label
> > dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dub
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com] On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 8:25 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] 9.0 Shipped
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> Just got the boxe
Ok thanks Derek, that helps my understanding alot. I got that line in
crontab. It shouldn't be as much of a problem. I wonder if anyone could
make this program run in smaller parts over the course of a whole day.
Wouldn't that make it much more inconspicuous on the system?
oh well thanks for
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:01 pm, Dennis Myers wrote:
> Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said,
> they started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label
> dated 31 Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not
> bad will reinst
El Mar 05 Nov 2002 19:53, escribió:
> thanks for the info.
> Which distro you are using now. I don't have /dev/parport0. I have mdk9. I
> installed scanner using control center. I edited dll.conf and also
> umax_pp.conf for port 0x378 as I didn't have /dev/parport0. Then I did
> rpm -e sane-backend
hello,
in the boot section of the mandrake control center i can choose to have the
machine auto logon, what user id to use, and have kde be invoked as the
window manager.
problem: one of my user id's doesn't show up (and wouldn't you know it that
is the one i want to use since it is the one t
Hello,
i have lm 8.2 and set it up for run level 5, medium security. for one of my
user id's whenever I log out the system just hangs. the only thing that
works to get the system to respond is ctrl-alt-f1, then i have a logon
again, su to root, then reboot the machine (because if i try to do
Bryan,
I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture
Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset
on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it
was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 11:00 am, you wrote:
> >> After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
> >> Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard
> >> installation. Does this version have a defraging utility?
> >> TIA,
> >> Owen
> >
> > This gets as
Hi Flux,
Alway willing to get involved in a slagfest. Count me as one vote for
Mandrake! (or 2 if you allow vote fixing)
regards,
Bill W.
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From: "Flux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 1:02 PM
Subject: [newbie
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote:
> I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an
> analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a
> Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next.
I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage
Paul Rodriguez wrote:
Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible
GeForce4 on recommendation of the list. Is there any prepping I need to
do to my system before I switch cards? Can I just swap out the cards
first and then install the drivers? Or do I need to edit inittab t
El Lun 04 Nov 2002 20:03, Derek Jennings escribió:
> Has anyone else tried out Texstars modified fonts for KDE yet?
> They are absolutely wonderful !! I thought my fonts were good until I tried
> this...
A little something to add: TRY Texstar's Mozilla packages! (mozilla XFT) ;o)
Damian
Want to
Just yank the card, replace it, then after a successful powerup, install
the nVidia drivers!
November 3rd 2002
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the word 'you' and a ? are missing, the sentence below is a question not a
statement!
bascule
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:36 pm, bascule wrote:
> john,
> are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or
> cd-text which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup
Hi, I just swapped my incompatible ATI 8500 for a more compatible
GeForce4 on recommendation of the list. Is there any prepping I need to
do to my system before I switch cards? Can I just swap out the cards
first and then install the drivers? Or do I need to edit inittab to
start are runlevel 3,
I use boot magic as my boot loader. Windows XP must be on the C drive since Boot Magic is a windows application. I just have lilo save to the LINUX partition. Boot Magic locates the windows and LINUX boot loaders. Boot magic is very easy to configure and use.
Just got the boxed set of ML 9.0 today. Just as the Mandrake Store said, they
started shipping end of October first of November. Shipping label dated 31
Oct recieved 5 Nov Dublin Ireland to Omaha Nebraska, 6 days, not bad will
reinstall on the test machine tonight. Oh, I got the Power Pack Editi
Anne Wilson wrote:
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote:
Anne Wilson wrote:
I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when working with images, but
have come across a real puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working
with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp images. Some o
Eurocom Laptops are some of the few I'm ever seen that are fully
certified for Linux. I've personally installed about twenty-five of them
with no problems whatsoever.
Did I mention that you can purchase them with or without an operating
system?
www.eurocom.ca
Lanman
--
Want to buy your Pa
bascule wrote:
john,
are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text
which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the
net of cddb info
bascule
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Don't need to, do I , the info i
bascule wrote:
john,
are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text
which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the
net of cddb info
bascule
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
Don't need to, do I , the info i
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:33, Franki wrote:
> why not get Dells???
>
> more bang for your buck...
>
> and compaq's don't just suck for linux, they suck period...
>
> rgds
>
> Frank
>
IBM laptops should be notably the best for linux. The current models
have drivers, and remember, IBM is working
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 05:15, Noah Hicks wrote:
>
> Well the only problem I'm having is that when it's running, it slows the
> system down. There's a lot of HD activity and the programs I'm running slow
> down significatly. This can last for a good 3-4 min. I find it kind of
> irritating. Se
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 04:43, Anders Lind wrote:
>
> Hiya!
>
> I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch
> to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it
> comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember
> u
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 03:57, Christian Goldstein wrote:
> Hiya!
>
> I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch
> to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it
> comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 03:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >> After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
> >> Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation.
> >> Does this version have a defraging utility?
> >> TIA,
> >> Owen
> >
> > Thi
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 02:02 pm, Flux wrote:
> I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop
> for the average Linux distro? I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario
> 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's suck for Linux. (This could explain
> my current problem
Apparently, it only works for certain gnome apps like evolution or
gnumeric, and gimp (<-useful here). But I was looking for something to
make the gnome menus detachable.
- Paul
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 08:47, Terry Sheltra wrote:
> I haven't tried it to see if it works. I did try to do the tip
why not get Dells???
more bang for your buck...
and compaq's don't just suck for linux, they suck period...
rgds
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Flux
Sent: Wednesday, 6 November 2002 5:02 AM
To: Linux
Subject: [newb
I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an
analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver
for this, so I wonder what next. There's the possibility of graphic cards
with svid input - but I don't want to have to grovel behind my desk.
Is
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 9:06 pm, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:38 pm, John Richard Smith
>
> wrote:
> > Anne Wilson wrote:
> > >I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when
> > > working with images, but have come across a real
> > > puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm work
I'm sure this has been asked a thousand times, but what's the best laptop for the
average Linux distro?
I had, at first, targeted Compaq's Presario 2800T, but I caught wind that Compaq's
suck for Linux. (This could
explain my current problems) I'm buying two new laptops for me and my boss, and
"Ronald J. Hall" wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote:
> > After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
> > Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation.
> > Does this version have a defraging utility?
> > TIA,
> > O
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:00 pm, PBone wrote:
> The last time I tried this I ran into a problem where bullets wouldn't
> displasy on openoffice. Has this been fixed?
I just tried OpenOffice. 'Text' bullets do not seem to work, but 'graphical'
bullets do (Format>Numbering/Bullets). I agree that
You can see the daily jobs in /etc/cron.daily
Whenever you install an RPM which needs 'maintenance' a file gets dropped in
here for the daily processing.
For example logrotate will compress your old logs and delete the oldest
entries. It will cause a bit of hard drive activity, but not a vast
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 06:38 pm, John Richard Smith
wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >I use KView's ability to display thumbnails, when
> > working with images, but have come across a real
> > puzzler. In the large batch of photos I'm working
> > with, two directories contain .jpg and .bmp imag
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:06 pm, Jan Wilson wrote:
> * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[021105 10:49]:
> > >This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the
> > > way Linux is setup (superior), you don't have to
> > > defrag
> >
> > What is it about Linux's setup that makes defra
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard
installation.
Does this version have a defraging utility?
TIA,
Owen
This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux i
Thanks for the recommendation. Just installed the packages along with
libqt3-devel and libqt3 and they look great. Real improvement :-)
I have only had a quick look though. I'll take a closer look later.
Cheers,
Jord
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 11:03 pm, Derek Jennings wrote:
> Has anyone else tried o
john,
are talking about cddb - looking the info up from a net database, or cd-text
which is info actually on the cd, your description fits the lookup over the
net of cddb info
bascule
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 6:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Don't need to, do I , the info is there on the dis
If you stop anacron/cron then your system will not be able to perform
essential maintenance.
Your log files will fill up up to infinity, your temporary files will not be
erased, and your system will not perform any security checks.
What is the problem with having it running?
derek
On Tuesday 0
Hiya!
I've been using KDE for the past few days and now I feel like I could switch
to some other Windowmanager ( I was told KDE isnt the best choice when it
comes to speed and reliability ), or at least *try* to do so. I remember
using WindowMaker a few months ago, but I didn't like it that
Greetings, I just wanted to pass this along...I thought I would import my MS
fonts from my windows partition (winME), after reading about being able to do that
with Drakfont. Also, I read that MS fonts are much better than those used by Mdk.
I am more partial to readability than style, and
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation.
Does this version have a defraging utility?
TIA,
Owen
This gets asked a lot but basically, because of the way Linux is setup
(superior), you do
I removed "soundwrapper" from the command for xmms using menudrake, but
it didn't make any difference. I suppose I can just make a shortcut on
the desktop for xmms and not worry about it, but I'd like to find out
why it doesn't work and fix it. The really strange thing about this is
that xmms used
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 07:29 pm, you wrote:
> After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
> Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation.
> Does this version have a defraging utility?
> TIA,
> Owen
This gets asked a lot but basicall
After two weeks of trial and error I began to wonder about defraging my
Mandrake dedicated box. I have version 8.2 with a standard installation.
Does this version have a defraging utility?
TIA,
Owen
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
who should we direct the feedback about rpm and application icons to? the
people who manage rpm or those who manage the windows managers (kde, gnome,
etc.), or the companies who create the distributions (i.e. mandrake)?
i am a consultant and looking to help companies make the switch from
windo
In reply to Anders's mail, d.d. Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:18:02 +0100:
>which leads me to think that GLIB is strangely installed if at all
>installed on 8.2 (Please note that I do not have Gnome installed,
>but I have Gnome-libs and so on installed). I tried to download a
>glib-RPM but only with the resu
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 23:19:00 +1100
"Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gollygee, that worked! Must say, gotta give ya a big "Thanks" for that
> one, Mr. Charles - and for all the years I cussed BellSouth...(grin)
>
I think you can also go to the Mandrake control center, boot, and then bo
When Mandrake starts up, a list of various drivers/modules/devices scrolls on the
screen. I'm sure you all know
what I'm talking about. Strangely enough, the first time I installed Mandrake Linux,
this list was displayed in the
text console. Since I reinstalled Mandrake, the list scrolls pas
Hello friends,
now with the keen help of this list I have managed to solve
my NFS-problems and now I encountered something else:
I wanted to upgrade my Sylpheed-version to 0.8.5 from 0.8.2
that I am using today. RPM misses a lot of dependcies and
I don't wanna work through them all so I decided
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 7:45 am, Pilagá wrote:
> 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 lvgandh
I haven't tried it to see if it works. I did try to do the tip about
the transparent panels, but got far too complex for me to deal with (I'm
still fairly new in the Linux world), so I decided not to mess with
things, and leave them as they are. Perhaps someone else out there has
gotten thing
M9.0, Grip v 3.0.1 track info display problem
One of Grip's more endearing features is it's ability
to read the track info of wave file on a CD and
display the track information like artist,and song
title.
Try as I may I cannot get this function to display on
M9.0 Grip v3.0.1 with discs known to
load an app called Xtart,
its from a console, you type Xtart, it detects what wm are installed and
gives you a nice list..
It was written by Civilme, formerly from mandrakesoft...
very handy.
rgds
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.
Gollygee, that worked! Must say, gotta give ya a big "Thanks" for that
one, Mr. Charles - and for all the years I cussed BellSouth...(grin) Now
I feel more at ease with my MDK install - now I just gotta get all my
nifty little tools/utilities and scripts done up in it and I'll be even
happier! (Hat
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 22:49:33 +1100
"Stephen Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmmmdrop down list - well, I'd say I see one, but ya know, I really
> hate logons with GDM/XDM/KDM - so I generally opt to logon and start X
> manually anyways...only time I like XDM's is on a Solaris/Irix/HPUX
> box
Hmmmdrop down list - well, I'd say I see one, but ya know, I really
hate logons with GDM/XDM/KDM - so I generally opt to logon and start X
manually anyways...only time I like XDM's is on a Solaris/Irix/HPUX
box...and this it ain't! (grin)
Nah...I don't want to go that route. I really like the
There's a drop-down list on the login dialog box...
--
Richard Urwin, Private
"No 9000 series computer has ever made a mitsake or corrubiteddatatato."
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:newbie-owner@;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Stephen Kuhn
Sent: 05 November 2002 1
Having come from a RedHat and Slackware background, I personally don't
have a problem in changing my desktops/window managers - but after
loading Mandrake 9.0, I wasn't able to locate a tool/utility to do so
via the GUI - not that it took me too much effort to manually edit the
~/.xsession file to
On Tue, 5 Nov 2002 10:05:35 +
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course - we know that now. But the point being made is that competely new
> users don't. I'm sure it would not be difficult for programmers to write in
> the option for a link on the desktop. Nor would it be difficu
Of course - we know that now. But the point being made is that competely new
users don't. I'm sure it would not be difficult for programmers to write in
the option for a link on the desktop. Nor would it be difficult for Mandrake
to provide link in the What-to-do menu that tells how to use me
On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 1:35 am, you wrote:
> 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 hav
> How about this: an
> external box connected to an AC outlet, inside an optocoupler with
> schmitt-trigger(sp?) and a connector for a serial cable? Connect to a
spare
> serial port on your PC, you could get a nice TTL signal on one of the
> readable pins on the port.
That's a nice idea. Give it
you can also use the command 'locate "xx"' in a terminal. the x's
being the name of the software you want to find.
- Original Message -
From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] making rpm installation e
Le mar 05/11/2002 à 04:29, Paul Rodriguez a écrit :
> Anybody know of a way to get rid of the Mandrake menu on the gnome
> panel?
>
> - Paul Rodriguez
In menudrake, you will be able to restore the GNOME default menu.
(the same for KDE and other environments)
Nÿco
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