[newbie-it] 99999

2002-11-16 Thread Fabio Manunza
Il numero dei processi che possono essere avviati sulla macchina, prima che la numerazione ricominci da 1. Non mi ricordo più chi l'aveva domandato; andando a spulciare nella documentazione (per tutt'altro motivo), mi sono imbattuto in questa chicca... 'Mo ne sappiamo una in più... --

[newbie-it] cdrom e fstab

2002-11-16 Thread Fabio Manunza
Piccola indagine tra i possessori di mdk9.0: a voi funziona perfettamente il lettore cd (o anche il masterizzatore)? Ho notato che dopo alcuni minuti il sistema cede, impedendomi di utilizzare il cd inserito, dichiarando tutti i file contenuti come inesistenti. Andando a spulciare tra i log di

Re: [newbie-it] cdrom e fstab

2002-11-16 Thread Luca
sandro ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 11:17, sabato 16 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Piccola indagine tra i possessori di mdk9.0: a voi funziona perfettamente il lettore cd (o anche il masterizzatore)? Ho notato che dopo alcuni minuti il sistema cede, impedendomi

[newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-16 Thread Mavricijo Babi
Salve a tuti, Ho un problema con dele partizoni Fat 32, le vedo da Linux ma non ne vedo il contenuto. Sa qualcuno dirmi perche? Garzie mile

Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-16 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 23:46, venerdì 15 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: non credo proprio... fai una prova, installa gkrellm o usa qualche altra utilità per vedere l'occupazione della cpu in una finestrella grafica magari c'è qualcosa che ti tiene sempre al 100%... Grande, come sempre ci hai azzeccato,

[newbie-it] Re: update mdk9

2002-11-16 Thread gianni piazza
Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a scaricare gli aggiornamenticon mandrake update? Grazie!!

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-16 Thread tom
Alle 15:38, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Mavricijo Babi ha scritto: Salve a tuti, Ho un problema con dele partizoni Fat 32, le vedo da Linux ma non ne vedo il contenuto. Sa qualcuno dirmi perche? Garzie mile uhm..un paio di domandine: sicuramene sono inserite in fstab(se dici che le

Re: [newbie-it] kmail smtp

2002-11-16 Thread tom
Alle 23:13, martedì 12 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: Oggi mi sono accorto che questa mail non era mai arrivata.ok la ri posto Grazie mike..era una questione di autenticazione..me ne ero dimenticato..ora è tutto ok,finalmente ri posto da Kmail. Ciao , Tom è un problema

RE: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-16 Thread Mavricijo Babi
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of tom Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 5:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32 Alle 15:38, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Mavricijo Babi ha scritto: Salve a tuti, Ho un problema

[newbie-it] Ext3....

2002-11-16 Thread Nicola
Buon giorno a tutta la ML. Non so se questo è il posto adatto per questo problema, ma non so dove altro chiedere Qualche giorno fa mi è capitato di veder concellato completamente il contenuto di una directory in una partizione ext3. I fatti: Ho una serie di files in una directory, decido di

Re: [newbie-it] cdrom e fstab

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 14:31, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Luca ha scritto: ... Il problema molto probabilmente è dovuto ad uno dei tanti bug del supermount e lo si risolve smontando il cd e rimontandolo a mano (con mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom) ma per montare così devi essere root!! perchè per fare

Re: [newbie-it] 99999

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 19:06, venerdì 15 novembre 2002, Fabio Manunza ha scritto: Il numero dei processi che possono essere avviati sulla macchina, prima che la numerazione ricominci da 1. Non mi ricordo più chi l'aveva domandato; andando a spulciare nella documentazione (per tutt'altro motivo), mi sono

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 08:35, sabato 16 novembre 2002, gigi pinna ha scritto: [...]BRpuoi farlo, ma devi accordarti con l'amministratore di BRrete, perchè ti apra il firewall.BRBRe` un ottima notizia! sai se ci posso anche sparare limewire su quella porta?BRBRok, per la tua macchina dovrà allora venire aperta

Re: [newbie-it] sendmail

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 08:35, sabato 16 novembre 2002, gigi pinna ha scritto: il messaggo scirà quotato male, causa copia e incolla da html...!! puoi farlo, ma devi accordarti con l'amministratore di rete, perchè ti apra il firewall. -e` un ottima notizia! sai se ci posso anche sparare -limewire su quella

Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 16:45, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: magari c'è qualcosa che ti tiene sempre al 100%... la finestrella del CPU segna - sempre - 99% con punte di 100% ... Che fare adesso?? Come posso capire chi o che cosa porta il cpu a tale grado di lavoro?? top okkio a

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-16 Thread miKe
Alle 15:38, sabato 16 novembre 2002, Mavricijo Babi ha scritto: Salve a tuti, Ho un problema con dele partizoni Fat 32, le vedo da Linux ma non ne vedo il contenuto. Sa qualcuno dirmi perche? da utente, digita mount vedrai cosa hai montato e come di nuovo, digita mount mount.txt e manda

Re: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9

2002-11-16 Thread carmine de pasquale
- Original Message - From: gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9 Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a scaricare gli aggiornamenticon mandrake update? Grazie!! questo succede anche a

Re: [newbie] Tell me what I'm doing wrong, please?

2002-11-16 Thread erylon hines
On Friday 15 November 2002 08:56 pm, you wrote: Perhaps someone can look at what I've done and give some pointers? At this point I'm lost. I had none of these problems with 8.x and backaside from no sound AMD Athlon 800 (Slot A) 512 Megs of Ram Primary HD, Quantum 40

Re: [newbie] Tell me what I'm doing wrong, please?

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 8:22 am, you wrote: But first, check that you don't have an interrupt conflict--video,TV card,nic and sound looks like an invitation to interrupt problems--that's a lot of hardware crammed into one box. If it is an interrupt conflict, Gateway's crummy bios probably

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2002-11-16 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Have you read this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/msg108659.html ? I think it will solve your problems :) On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:53:20 + Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx for your suggestion Stephen :) I did check all sound module/type in mixer

Re: [newbie] Tell me what I'm doing wrong, please?

2002-11-16 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:33:16 +: some things will work with shared interrupts, and some won't. My experience has been that nics don't share well with anything else, sound and vid will often work. How do you check interrupt usage? cat /proc/interrupts e.g.

Re: [newbie] Sound problem

2002-11-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Frans Ketelaars wrote: Have you read this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie%40linux-mandrake.com/msg108659.html ? I think it will solve your problems :) On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 14:53:20 + Ongkie Singgih [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thx for your suggestion Stephen :) I did check all

Re: [newbie] kde problems...

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 12:49, - netmaniac - wrote: Thanks very much for the answer! Can I remove KDE simply using rpm -e command and what files I must delete in order to get rid of it? netmaniac If you initially installed via RPM, you should be able to do that - if not, then you're going

Re: [newbie] Looking for an app that ...

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:14, Gary Armstrong wrote: I'm having trouble putting a name to what I want, so not suprisingly I'm having trouble finding anything. I want describe the network of a small company. So I'm hoping to find some graphing tool that does that or maybe a general purpose

[newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be likely to cause version conflicts in the various dot file/directories unless I registered as a different user. Then I considered what I would have to

Re: [newbie] Finding Dependencies

2002-11-16 Thread Robin Turner
Jordan Elver wrote: Hi All, When trying to install something I am asked for a particular file or shared object. How can I find out which package contains that file? I know of rpmfind and I use urpmi. In rpmfind just type the full name of the required file e.g. libfoo.so.1 Sir Robin -- He

[newbie] portmap service :(

2002-11-16 Thread Marian Hodas
Hi, I installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop Toshiba with a Belkin network card. After installing the card things seems to work well but... next boot my laptop get stacked, service portmap starting - " executing: 'modprobe pcnet_cs' " freezes my comp. What is to be done, pls? Thanks a lot.

[newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
When I try to open mandrake control center, normal or as root, nothing happens. The icon appears during 10-20 secs. and then disappears without opening the MCC. Any clues? _ Direct chatten met je vrienden met MSN Messenger

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Paul
In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:02:27 +: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul -- The best mirror

Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Paul
In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:16:13 +0100: When I try to open mandrake control center, normal or as root, nothing happens. The icon appears during 10-20 secs. and then disappears without opening the MCC. Any clues? Try running mcc from a command prompt. Perhaps the

Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
Paul, I Get the following message: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:26:37 +0100 In reply to ivette's mail,

[newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-16 Thread Bruno Gunter
Hi all, I tried to put a Allied modem to connect via ASDL in mandrake 9.0, I tried several times and does not work. I used: - DHCP server to take IP and DNs from the server (ISP); - RP-PPoE; - I edited the files: /etc/ppp/firewall-standalone and /etc/ppp/firewall-masq; - I runned the

[newbie] HP4400C Scanjet

2002-11-16 Thread Chris
On Thursday 14 November 2002 09:59 pm, you said, and I quote: I have a HP 4400c and haven't been able to get it working, so if anyone of you can tell me how this could be accomplished under 9.0, I'd be ever so grateful. Regards Trevor So, you see it in the HARDWAREDRAKE?

RE: [newbie] Tell me what I'm doing wrong, please?

2002-11-16 Thread Marlo Montanaro
I haven't had a problem with the Live sound since 8.1, at least, and never a problem with the other stuff. One thing I might be concerned about is maybe one of your sticks of Ram is marginal--bad ram can cause mystery lockups. In fact, any piece of hardware that isn't functioning properly can do

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 1:25 pm, you wrote: In reply to Anne's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:02:27 +: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Ctrl-Alt-plus

[newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Watson
Hi folks I've broken my modem whilst exploring linuxconf.. Previously the modem was /dev/ttyS2 which was a symlink to /dev/tts/2. Now /dev/tts/2 has disappeared completely and /dev/ttyS2 is showing as unknown, presumably because its not pointing at anything. I've tried rebooting, but no

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with installing 9.0 so perhaps I'll just put up with it.

Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 16 November 2002 07:16 am, ivette brusselmans wrote: When I try to open mandrake control center, normal or as root, nothing happens. The icon appears during 10-20 secs. and then disappears without opening the MCC. Any clues?

Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Paul
In reply to ivette's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:40:44 +0100: Paul, I Get the following message: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Do you by chance have an Nvidia card with the Nvidia closed source driver installed? If so, did you also update /etc/X11/XF86Config-4? That is the

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And MCC doesn't want to test my monitor, either. Ah well, I want to get on with

Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday November 16 2002 08:40 am, Bruno Gunter wrote: Hi all, I tried to put a Allied modem to connect via ASDL in mandrake 9.0, I tried several times and does not work. I used: - DHCP server to take IP and DNs from the server (ISP); - RP-PPoE; - I edited the files:

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday November 16 2002 10:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Do you have numlock on? I believe it needs to be How odd - but it is on. Anne

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-16 Thread Mike Larson
T C wrote: 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

[newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Don and Alexa Pongracz
Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall. Now my internet, never a problem before won't

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be likely to cause version conflicts in the various dot file/directories unless I registered as a different user. Then I considered

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread John Richard Smith
Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall. Now my internet,

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 4:48 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 10:28 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Do you have numlock on? I believe it

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 4:59 pm, you wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall.

[newbie] Major irritation

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
Amongst the oddities I'm experiencing is that fact that every time I log in all my icons are tightly aligned either across the top or down the left side (this depends on a setting in K looknfeel). I have tried 'restore session' checked and unchecked when loggin out, but I can't break the

[newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
reinstalled mandarke 90 and still same problem, but now when I type 'mcc' in console, follwoing message appears: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at /usr/bin/mcc line 857 Can't call method set_active on undefined value at /usr/bin/mcc line 423 what's happening?

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:47:42 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be likely to cause version conflicts in the

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:59, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. Have you noticed more and more women are using Linux? I remember just a couple years ago it was rare to encounter a female Linux user. To me this

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... - that's what I thought - doesn't seem to work. And

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 16 November 2002 10:59 am, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 08:59:49 -0800 Don and Alexa Pongracz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 21:43, Anne Wilson wrote: When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be likely to cause version conflicts in the various dot file/directories unless I registered as a

Re: [newbie] Major irritation

2002-11-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:56:08 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amongst the oddities I'm experiencing is that fact that every time I log in all my icons are tightly aligned either across the top or down the left side (this depends on a setting in K looknfeel). I have tried 'restore

Re: [newbie] mandrake 90 control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:40, ivette brusselmans wrote: Paul, I Get the following message: Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. That's a video driver OpenGL issue, but shouldn't cause the control center to NOT work - so the actual issue lies somewhere else within the

Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 01:40, Bruno Gunter wrote: Hi all, I tried to put a Allied modem to connect via ASDL in mandrake 9.0, I tried several times and does not work. I used: - DHCP server to take IP and DNs from the server (ISP); - RP-PPoE; - I edited the files:

Re: [newbie] starting xmms from menu

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 01:50, Mike Larson wrote: Way late on this, but I had the same problem with xmms not starting from the menu, but starts OK from the command line. I started menudrake from a terminal (or right click on the K and select Menu Editor). go to MultimediaSoundxmmsGeneral

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 02:15, Peter Watson wrote: Hi folks I've broken my modem whilst exploring linuxconf.. Previously the modem was /dev/ttyS2 which was a symlink to /dev/tts/2. Now /dev/tts/2 has disappeared completely and /dev/ttyS2 is showing as unknown, presumably because its not

Re: [newbie] Lets help get some linux drivers.

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:00, Chris wrote: Any hope though that I can get this one up and running? output of kde usb viewer HP ScanJet 4400c Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard Serial Number: CN1611C2RFB Speed: 12Mb/s (full) USB Version: 1.10 Device Class: 00(ifc ) Device Subclass: 00

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:10 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 16:28:52 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 3:53 pm, you wrote: On Saturday November 16 2002 08:20 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Ctrl-Alt-plus and Ctrl-Alt-Minus... Paul Hmm... -

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Paul
In reply to Derek's mail, d.d. Sat, 16 Nov 2002 18:10:07 +: Clt+Alt+ 'keypad +/-' rotates among all the screen definitions defined in your XF86Config-4 file. If when you did your recent install you selected a monitor with only one resolution, then obviously you will not be able to rotate

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 03:59, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have

Re: [newbie] Major irritation

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 04:56, Anne Wilson wrote: Amongst the oddities I'm experiencing is that fact that every time I log in all my icons are tightly aligned either across the top or down the left side (this depends on a setting in K looknfeel). I have tried 'restore session' checked and

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:32 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 00:02, Anne Wilson wrote: What was that keyboard combination that involved the numberpad + and -? I seem to have accidentally got a rather large display, and want to put it back to moderate size. Anne CTRL+ALT+ + or -

[newbie] more research

2002-11-16 Thread Don and Alexa Pongracz
I believe I am having problems defining my host. I am networked to my husbands computer and we get our internet services from shaw.ca. when I am asked to define the host it wants me to be very specific. The book says to use data provided by your ISP. Well and good but shaw cable says that

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 05:00, ivette brusselmans wrote: reinstalled mandarke 90 and still same problem, but now when I type 'mcc' in console, follwoing message appears: invalid cast from (NULL) pointer to 'GtkObject' at /usr/bin/mcc line 857 Can't call method set_active on undefined value

Re: [newbie] Planning ahead - next step

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:01 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 14:47:42 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: When installing v.9.0 I considered sharing the existing /home directory, which I was told is possible. However, I then realised that I would be

[newbie] addendum

2002-11-16 Thread Don and Alexa Pongracz
An addition to my previous correspondence. The computer now looks for the internet addy for shaw.ca ...I think I my have keyed in the wrong thing for host and now the poor computer is dreadfully confused

Re: [newbie] Major irritation

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:30 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 17:56:08 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amongst the oddities I'm experiencing is that fact that every time I log in all my icons are tightly aligned either across the top or down the left side (this depends on a

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 6:38 pm, you wrote: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 13:13:27 -0500 Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 11:59, Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. Have you noticed

Re: [newbie] more research

2002-11-16 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 16 Nov 2002 7:07 pm, you wrote: I believe I am having problems defining my host. I am networked to my husbands computer and we get our internet services from shaw.ca. when I am asked to define the host it wants me to be very specific. The book says to use data provided by your ISP.

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
it was a complete installation, from 3 cd's I burned after downloading the ISO's and controlling download with MD5. MD5 Numbers matched. From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable Date: 17

[newbie] checking product

2002-11-16 Thread Radosaw Krl
I got a product named Free Reign , it is a Sim-Game for Linux i got a problem with installing it , if someone would to help me out i will owe him/her a lot , i can send that product via e-mail.

[newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread wrnash
Hello, Im trying to learn to program in c++. I bought a book and I install the software on a windows machine and was able to run my first program. Now I would like to run this on a linux mandrake 9.0 machine. I do not know how to do this. This is the program I use from the book.

Re: [newbie] more research

2002-11-16 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:07:54 -0800 Don and Alexa Pongracz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe I am having problems defining my host. I am networked to my husbands computer and we get our internet services from shaw.ca. when I am asked to define the host it wants me to be very specific. The book

Re: [newbie] addendum

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 06:10, Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: An addition to my previous correspondence. The computer now looks for the internet addy for shaw.ca ...I think I my have keyed in the wrong thing for host and now the poor computer is dreadfully confused I believe that you might want

Re: [newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 06:36, ivette brusselmans wrote: it was a complete installation, from 3 cd's I burned after downloading the ISO's and controlling download with MD5. MD5 Numbers matched. But that doesn't necessarily mean that everything's truly loaded. I'm wondering about how your

Re: [newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 07:25, wrnash wrote: Hello, I'm trying to learn to program in c++. I bought a book and I install the software on a windows machine and was able to run my first program. Now I would like to run this on a linux mandrake 9.0 machine. I do not know how to do

Re: [newbie] Now VERY OT - Mandrake 9 ASUS A7N266-VM Motherboard

2002-11-16 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 9:59 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 15 Nov 2002 12:40 am, you wrote: Typing hdparm will give you some params, doing a man hdparm will definately fill you with info - sometimes too much info. Talking of which - I'm sure there is a way to get man files to print out,

RE: [newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread wrnash
I have not tried KDeveloper yet I'm will install it now. You said I was missing some syntax. May I ask what am I missing. I copy this from the book. The c++ programming language 3rd edition. Thanks bill nash -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On

Re: [newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread David C. Fox
wrnash wrote: Hello, I?m trying to learn to program in c++. I bought a book and I install the software on a windows machine and was able to run my first program. Now I would like to run this on a linux mandrake 9.0 machine. I do not know how to do this. This is the program I use

RE: [newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread wrnash
Thanks that worked. Now if I just learn to program thanks Bill Nash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David C. Fox Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with learning to program

RE: [newbie] iMac and 8.2 PPC

2002-11-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I successfully installed the OS by RTFM! But now I'm experiencing trouble with the GUI. Actually, I don't care if I have a GUI or not because I'm going to try this as my home server but I don't know enough about the command line to check anything out. Is the hd being shared? How much of it (if I

Re: [newbie] Looking for an app that ...

2002-11-16 Thread meteor
I'm using dia 0.90, but has some errors. E.g. if you draw something with a line thickness of n, change zoom factor and draw again,then you get the same result. So you will experience problems for getting correct output. The to best solutions for creating network like graphs I know are: visio

[newbie] Japanese Language Problems

2002-11-16 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi, Can anyone help me with this problem. I use Linux all the time now having no need to boot into my windows partition. I have also been ebcouraging my girlfriend (though I think she would use the term pestering) to make the switch but because she is Japanese she prefers the fact that in

[newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Spotts
Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The side-to-side alignment seems OK. I have the laptop set up

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:49, Peter Spotts wrote: Folks, I have a slight (and only slightly annoying) problem with Mandrake 8.1 on a new Toshiba laptop (1905-303). My desktop, be it Ximian Gnome or Fluxbox, appears to be raised off the bottom of the screen by about four to six pixels. The

[newbie] mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread ivette brusselmans
text file looks like: BACKSPACE=Delete BASH=/bin/bash BASH_VERSINFO=([0]=2 [1]=05b [2]=0 [3]=1 [4]=release [5]=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release' BOOT_IMAGE=linux BROWSER='kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing' BSNUM=14 CLASS=beginner COLORTERM= COLUMNS=80

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-16 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought, can't you do the same thing, but just run kudzu for detection instead of having to reboot? --

Re: [newbie] Help with learning to program

2002-11-16 Thread Rodrigo Borghette Schmidt
On Saturday 16 November 2002 19:18, you wrote: You can try Anjuta or KDevelop, they are very nice C/C++ IDEs for linux. Rodrigo Thanks that worked. Now if I just learn to program thanks Bill Nash. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf

Re: [newbie] well, help!

2002-11-16 Thread Robin Turner
Don and Alexa Pongracz wrote: Hi, I'm Alexa, and really new to the Linux route but sticking with it because I want to. I had Mandrake 8.2 installed and don't have any dollars to get the upgrade. Well, it bombed on me and I lost my X thing for the desktop so I have to reinstall. Now my internet,

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Spotts
Dang, you've got one heck of a wife! I'll go back to the dark (sorry, Windows) side of the partition and see about adjustments. I presume this means that I'm going to have to tolerate some degree of mismatch on the Windows side in exchange for a better fit on the Penguin side? Thanks for the

[newbie] Network help

2002-11-16 Thread L.V.Gandhi
I have four PCs as follows. PC1 with dual boot with win me It has with it a HP 3200C scanner PC2 with linux It has a 56 kbps modem a CD writer and a laser printer PC3 with windows It has a dot matrix printer connected PC4 with windows I want to network these. I have gone

[newbie] HP 4400C ScanJet

2002-11-16 Thread Chris
On Saturday 16 November 2002 04:31 am, you said, and I quote: On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 13:00, Chris wrote: Any hope though that I can get this one up and running? Have you been to the SANE website and have you gotten their latest back ends for SANE? They update the back ends quite often...and

Re: [newbie] Network help

2002-11-16 Thread John McQuillen
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 02:09, L.V.Gandhi wrote: PC2 IP address 192.168.1.1 PC1 IP address 192.168.1.2 PC3 IP address 192.168.1.3 PC4 IP address 192.168.1.4 network address is 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.249 Hi there, I suggest you visit the archives (if you don't keep your mail) and

[newbie] RE: mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-16 Thread Stephen Kuhn
ivette brusselmans -AKA- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]-on-Sunday, 17 November 2002 10:00 AM Stated the following: text file looks like: BACKSPACE=Delete BASH=/bin/bash BASH_VERSINFO=([0]=2 [1]=05b [2]=0 [3]=1 [4]=release [5]=i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) BASH_VERSION='2.05b.0(1)-release'

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