Re: [newbie] Font

What is the font and where did you get it from? Joeb On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 18:46:28 +1100 Trevor Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm in need of a font. I used a font from 8.2 to create a rather large > document that I need to have remain the same. How would I get that fo

[newbie] MDK 9.0 & Nvidia

Is there any way to get nvidia rpms working in MDK 9.0? The path: 2960 or 3123, plus load glx, plus nv>nvidia,don't work at all. A search with google, report: "type the following commands after logging in as root: #cd /usr/X11R6/lib #ln -s /usr/lib/libGL.so libGL.so.1

Re: [newbie] Screen resolution

On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 19:42:46 + "Ongkie Singgih" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. > Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen > resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? > > Thx

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

On Saturday 09 November 2002 05:51 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: > > Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon "thusly" not > > needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident > > makes infinately more sense than havin

Re: [newbie] Im Sensors

Funny thing, once I did the last sensor-detect the ouput changed to this. Trevor = eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51

Re: [newbie] Im Sensors

On Sunday 10 Nov 2002 12:55 pm, Brian Parish wrote: > > CPU core: +1.68 V (min = +0.00 V, max = +3.03 V) > > +2.5V: +0.96 V (min = +2.24 V, max = +2.74 V) ALARM > > I/O: +3.06 V (min = +2.95 V, max = +3.62 V) > > +5V: +4.77 V (min = +4.47 V, max = +5.49 V) > > +12V:

RE: [newbie] restarting X disables winmodem

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all > > Recently started with mdk 9.0 on a stand-alone home desktop. Had to > obtain a driver courtesy of the good people at MBSI to work my > winmodem. The documentation says this enables access to the modem as > ttySHCF0. K

Re: [newbie] rescue

Patrick, You are not going to find a menu option to fix things for you unfortunately, but you should be able to get back to a bootable system. The menu from rescue will include mounting all your filesystems under /mnt. Do that. Then select the console option so you get a command prompt. >From

[newbie] restarting X disables winmodem

Hi all Recently started with mdk 9.0 on a stand-alone home desktop. Had to obtain a driver courtesy of the good people at MBSI to work my winmodem. The documentation says this enables access to the modem as ttySHCF0. Kppp was using /dev/modem as a symlink to ttyS0, so I changed that to ttySHCF0

Re: [newbie] Im Sensors

On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 11:03, Trevor Rhodes wrote: > I installed as listed and got this. Do I really have a problem? > > eeprom-i2c-0-50 > Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 > Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter > Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD > SDRAM Size (MB):256 > > eepro

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors & GUI

On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:39 pm, Pilagá wrote: > El Sáb 09 Nov 2002 12:18, Dennis Myers escribió: > > On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: > > > Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? > > > > > > Gracias. > > > > gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm

[newbie] Im Sensors

I installed as listed and got this. Do I really have a problem? eeprom-i2c-0-50 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C SMBus adapter Memory type:DDR SDRAM DIMM SPD SDRAM Size (MB):256 eeprom-i2c-0-51 Adapter: SMBus Via Pro adapter at 5000 Algorithm: Non-I2C

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

On Saturday 09 November 2002 03:59 pm, James R. McKenzie wrote: > Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon "thusly" not > needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident > makes infinately more sense than having to find that "proverbial" > other way. It conflicts with

RE: [newbie] Screen resolution

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friends, > > I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. > Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the > screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? > > Thx, > Ongkie >

RE: [newbie] [OT- mostly] For Networking Gurus

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My partner's company is about to upgrade their system from 2 PC peer > to peer to 4 PCs. All they run is an Accounting/Inventory application > and the usual wordprocessing/spreadsheet applications. (They access > the internet fo

RE: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I > have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the > ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from > texstar and have both

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors & GUI

El Sáb 09 Nov 2002 12:18, Dennis Myers escribió: > On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: > > Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? > > > > Gracias. > > gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm-plugins d/l'd from rpmfind.net. > Don't know how accurate it

Re: [newbie] rescue

Hi Paul, Unfortunately the cd rom is not bootable. I booted from the floppy and typed rescue at the prompt but none of the available options seem to be of any help I can list the file systems on each hd but that just confirms what I already know. - Original Message - From: "Pau

Re: [newbie] Trash can icon

Why would you want to do this? Not deleting the icon "thusly" not needing some other way of recovering files you delete by accident makes infinately more sense than having to find that "proverbial" other way. T H A N KY O U

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > Thanks, Charlie. Duly downloaded, it will go into my 'toolkit'. It sounds > a great saver of effort. > > Anne Greetings Anne; Just 'cause I won't use Windows doesn't mean I don't have relatives and friends, and an ex's hubby that's

Re: [newbie] CD labelling

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 15:23, Anne Wilson wrote: > Kover seems to do a perfectly adequate job in preparing CD inserts, but is > there any way to produce CD labels? > > Anne > Glabels is a pretty nice program, just about any label including CD labels. Look for in MDK contributions on any server.

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

Thank for your input Besides to mencoder I found also avidemuxer that does the job easily. Kristjan On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:38:50 -0500 "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 08 November 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: > > > can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi

[newbie] Trash can icon

Is there a way to delete the trash can icon in KDE on 9.0? If there is, how would I recover files I decide not to delete? TIA, Randy Donohoe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Thumbnail view puzzler

On Tuesday 05 Nov 2002 10:53 pm, you wrote: > 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 > >>> workin

[newbie] CD labelling

Kover seems to do a perfectly adequate job in preparing CD inserts, but is there any way to produce CD labels? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Windows CE device

Techno Your absolutely right. However, I presumed that actually being able to utilize what ever protocols M$ has put in WinCE to do things like mail/contact syncing was part if their "intilectual property". So I was just hoping that some kind of simple work around, maybe a quasi ftp, had been

Re: [newbie] CD-RW problem

On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 7:23 pm, you wrote: > I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am > getting the following error: > > mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and > '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge name > 'pic0

Re: [newbie] CD-RW problem

* Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021109 13:52]: > I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am getting > the following error: > > mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and > '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge nam

Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 12:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: John check and see if you have liblm_sensors1-2.6.4-4mdk installed, it looks like what you d/l'd may be different versions and they aren't compatible. My system has lm_sensors-2.6.4-4mdk installed and th

[newbie] Screen resolution

Dear Friends, I just finish to install Linux Mandrake 9.0. Is there anybody out there who knows what I have to do to change the screen resolution when the installation of Linux Mandrake 9.0 is done? Thx, Ongkie _ STOP MORE SPAM

[newbie] CD-RW problem

I want to back up some directories of photos, using XCDRoast, but am getting the following error: mkisofs: Error: '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card2/pic00027.bmp' and '/mnt/win_f/Photos/Spain/Card1/pic00027.bmp' have the same Rock Ridge name 'pic00027.bmp'. mkisofs: Unable to sort directory What c

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 6:14 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 09 November 2002 01:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some > > disks run without problems, but others crash the system. > > > > This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyo

Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

On Friday 08 November 2002 03:58 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to > > put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset > > and

Re: [newbie] extract audio tracts from .avi

On Friday 08 November 2002 11:58 pm, you wrote: > > can anybody advise a nice software to extract audio from avi (divx) > > files. > > I think mplayer is able to do that, but I haven't tried it, and the > mplayer docs can be convoluted sometimes. > > > thanks > > Kristjan I already posted a reply

Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 10:26 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Saturday 09 November 2002 01:12 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some > disks run without problems, but others crash the system. > > This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are > there any solutions? > > Anne

Re: [newbie] Kmail/Konqueror

On Friday 08 November 2002 05:41 pm, Owen Berio wrote: > Thanks Charlie, >Thats all it took, Plus getting the right menu bar. You're welcome Owen. I wish everything could be that easy. One request; I don't speak for the list, but I had to try to figure out what I was being thanked f

[newbie] Viewing XML in Konqueror (or any other Linux browser)

Anyone know why Konqueror and Mozilla and Netscape 7 would all refuse to interpret XML through an XSL stylesheet? The page in question is http://www.gaiacommunity.org/fun/mishmash.xml - I'd like to know if the flaw is on my computer's settings, or the setup of the XSL. It works perfectly well i

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

Tylenol => Acetaminophen. Yes, definitely a pain killer! :-) I prefer Ibuprofen, myself. ;-) I have WinDVD on my XP Pro/MDK 9.0 box. I'll take a look at it and see if I can find any settings that she could experiment with, or that make a noticable difference in the way it plays DVDs. Of course, we

Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 November 2002 09:25 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that eith

[newbie] CD-RW OPC Failures

Hi all, I am using Mandrake 9.0 with a Samsung 232B burner. I cannot make this work. I get various errors that started with "OPC Failure". In my attempts at figuring this out, I think I messed up the permissions. Now I can access the burner as root only. Even in root I get errors. I've tr

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 1:29 pm, you wrote: > When I had my DVD drive on a Win 98 SE box, I found performance to be > mediocre, at best. There's a need for a lot of processing power to run > commercial DVDs with any semblance of enjoyment in mind. I can barely do it > with my 500 MHz machines. My d

Re: [newbie] Windows CE device

Do I assume correctly that you are looking to synchronize data between your handheld Win CE device and a Linux computer, not just copy files back and forth with Linux? I, too, hope to find that someone has created a conduit for this purpose. I would like to be able to do the same in Evolution as I

[newbie] Can't start a program at boot

I have been trying unsuccessfully to launch XMMS automatically on boot, or alternatively whenever any user logs in. I use several different windows managers so a wm-specific solution such as using ~/Desktop/Autostart won't work for me. I've searched this list for ideas, and have tried: * "xmms -p

Re: lm_sensors was Re: [newbie] Way, way of topic

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday November 8 2002 07:46 pm, Roger Sherman wrote: On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Tom Brinkman wrote: If it's from lm_sensors, it's comin from a probe (thermistor) that either reads one of the cpu's pins, or is in contact with the die. From a pin is slightly better,

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors & GUI

On Saturday 09 November 2002 08:48 am, Pilagá wrote: > Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? > > Gracias. gkrellm will monitor with the gkrellm-plugins d/l'd from rpmfind.net. Don't know how accurate it may be in reality but the sensor readings show up. HTH --

Re: [newbie] usb external modems

In reply to John's mail, d.d. Sat, 09 Nov 2002 10:22:03 +: >As for USB , in my experience , admitedly that is limited , all the hype >about faster speed from usb ports is just that, hype, it's just that so >much is going USB , one cannot be out of it. > >I believe , by all means correct me if

SV: [newbie] Compiling KDE apps

> Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. > I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure > saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both > packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? > Without bei

Re: [newbie] wwwoffle error

On Friday 08 November 2002 1:36 pm, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I have wwwoffle proxy server for enabling offline browsing. I get all pages > ok. But when I try to access yahoo groups, I get following error. > Found a cyclic link in > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tamilinix/files/keyboard/typewriterkbd.png

Re: [newbie] lilo nopnpbios

Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 10:21 pm, you wrote: Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have read from the Linux-Mandrake site that it is a good idea to put into lilo this line linux nopnpbios if you have the via chipset and Mandrake 9. Is this true and exactly how and where does one do

Re: [newbie] usb external modems

L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Friday 08 Nov 2002 1:02 PM, John Richard Smith wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: Whether all USB external modems work properly in Linux. Whether there is also winmodem? I tired a few USB modems which were sold to me as hardware controlled, I returned them, none of the U

Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...

33.1MB is the properties listing for the kernel source file. HTH. Erik On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:51, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:25, Erik Farnsworth wrote: > > Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB > > > 33.1mb for the whole ISO, or just the kernel? > > ...if that's the kernel, I might

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Saturday 09 Nov 2002 9:00 am, you wrote: > On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > > My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some > > disks run without problems, but others crash the system. > > > > This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else me

[newbie] Compiling KDE apps

Hi, Sorry for the newbie question but I can't find the answer to this. I have been trying to compile new kde apps which all fail at the ./configure saying qt can't be found. I upgraded to libqt3 from texstar and have both packages installed. So why can't the includes be found? TIA, Jord -- Jord

Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 20:25, Erik Farnsworth wrote: > Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB > 33.1mb for the whole ISO, or just the kernel? ...if that's the kernel, I might actually attempt to download it tonight... -- Sat Nov 9 20:45:00 EST 2002 |____

Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...

Sorry, mate. CD3 33.1 MB On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 03:05, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers for a test machine - not hard to do. Got > the GLX driver and the source for the NVIDIA driver proper. Not hard to > do. Started to compile the driver and found : I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN >

Re: [newbie] Really getting irked...

I downloaded the NVIDIA drivers for a test machine - not hard to do. Got the GLX driver and the source for the NVIDIA driver proper. Not hard to do. Started to compile the driver and found : I DON'T HAVE THE DAMN KERNEL SOURCES for 2.4.29-16mdk ! Mad mad mad I am now. Searched high and low thro

Re: [newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 19:12, Anne Wilson wrote: > My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks > run without problems, but others crash the system. > > This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there > any solutions? > > Anne > If y

Re: [newbie] networking advice

On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 18:12, Erik Farnsworth wrote: > On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 10:45, teddy wl wrote: > > 1.for connecting all your PC you need ethernet card > > for every PC. configuring the IP address ex. > > 192.168.1.0/24 if you do not understand the IP you > > must read the basic of TCP/IP or i s

[newbie] Totally OT - dvd oddities

My daughter has tried commercial dvd films on her new win98 box. Some disks run without problems, but others crash the system. This is a problem I've never seen before. Has anyone else met it? Are there any solutions? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://