Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-18 Thread Stefano Salari
--- sandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:57, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti Qualcuno di voi sa come fare per velocizzare le immagini dei dvd con xine? visto che va a scatti in modo impressonante C'è il

Re: [newbie-it] Re:cambiare directory

2002-11-18 Thread Andrea Celli
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:01:55 +0100 gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... .Succede anche che non legge i miei esercizi(sono all'inizio!!) con il perl a meno che non gli specifichi perl prima del nome del file ,nonostante i miei file perl inizino con /usr/bin/perl appunto per indicare

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-18 Thread Andrea Celli
On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:23:23 +0100 Mavricijo Babiè [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soto /mnt vedo le partizoni dio WIN_C e WIN_D, queste partizione sono 9 GB, pero non vedo niente non mi da nesun errore. Garzie Prova a dare ls -l /mnt le due directory win ti devono apparire con xrw tra i

[newbie-it] LA memoria non quadra !!!

2002-11-18 Thread mino
Cari amici, il mio server e' nato con un banco di memoria da 256MB Athlon1,4 ETC. con Linux Mandrake 8.1, ho acquistato 2 banchi di memoria da 512MB ed ho rimosso il banco da 256MB,installando le memorie al boot il bios a visto correttamente i banchi di memoria(1024MB), ho avviato la mandrake ed

Re: [newbie-it] LA memoria non quadra !!!

2002-11-18 Thread Andrea Celli
On 18 Nov 2002 10:06:45 +0100 mino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari amici, il mio server e' nato con un banco di memoria da 256MB Athlon1,4 ETC. con Linux Mandrake 8.1, ho acquistato 2 banchi di memoria da 512MB ed ho rimosso il banco da 256MB,installando le memorie al boot il bios a visto

Re: [newbie-it] LA memoria non quadra !!!

2002-11-18 Thread mino
Il problema non penso che sia quello, ho notato che linux scarta la memoria, ma che riesca a scartarmi la bellezza di 128MB Non lo so Il lun, 2002-11-18 alle 10:20, Andrea Celli ha scritto: On 18 Nov 2002 10:06:45 +0100 mino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cari amici, il mio server e'

Re: [newbie-it] LA memoria non quadra !!!

2002-11-18 Thread Andrea Celli
On 18 Nov 2002 10:33:55 +0100 mino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il problema non penso che sia quello, ho notato che linux scarta la memoria, ma che riesca a scartarmi la bellezza di 128MB Non lo so ho provato a fare le proporzioni: se tu avessi la stessa riduzione pecentuale che ho

[newbie-it] Creare una partizione ext3

2002-11-18 Thread Stefano Salari
...Come si fa?!? Mi aspettavo che ci fosse un mke3fs o qualcosa di simile, ma non ho trovato nulla!! Non ho neanche notato dei parametri da passare a mke2fs. Qualcuno mi illumina? Grazie! Steo. __ Per te Blu American Express è

Re: [newbie-it] Creare una partizione ext3

2002-11-18 Thread tom
Alle 12:08, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Stefano Salari ha scritto: ...Come si fa?!? Mi aspettavo che ci fosse un mke3fs o qualcosa di simile, ma non ho trovato nulla!! Non ho neanche notato dei parametri da passare a mke2fs. Non ho capio bene quale sia la domanda: se intendi creare una

Re: [newbie-it] 99999

2002-11-18 Thread Fabio Manunza
Alle 17:05, domenica 17 novembre 2002, Benedetto Santarella ha scritto: Alle 23:50, sabato 16 novembre 2002, hai scritto: [cut] allora ancora un paio di settimane di uptime e vediamo se è così, venerdi un server in ufficio era oltre 86.000 ... lancio qualcosina e vedo... [a questo

Re: [newbie-it] Creare una partizione ext3

2002-11-18 Thread Stefano Salari
--- tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alle 12:08, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Stefano Salari ha scritto: ...Come si fa?!? Mi aspettavo che ci fosse un mke3fs o qualcosa di simile, ma non ho trovato nulla!! Non ho neanche notato dei parametri da passare a mke2fs. Non ho capio bene quale

Re: [newbie-it] Partizoni FAT 32

2002-11-18 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 09:56, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: On Sat, 16 Nov 2002 20:23:23 +0100 Mavricijo Babiè [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Soto /mnt vedo le partizoni dio WIN_C e WIN_D, queste partizione sono 9 GB, pero non vedo niente non mi da nesun errore. Garzie Prova a dare ls -l

[newbie-it] rpmdrake

2002-11-18 Thread Daniele Micci
Ciao, ho notato che il nuovo Software Installer della MDK 9.0 mi impedisce di installare alcuni pacchetti, sempre gli stessi: se provo ad installare celestia o d4x o altri, mi segnala i pacchetti come già installati... ovviamente, però, non è così. Potrei installarli manualmente con rpm,

Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Credo di avere risolto... Se uso il portatile con l'energia delle batterie funziona correttamente, senza ventola, se lo attacco alla corrente con o senza batterie avviene il surriscaldamento, cosa che invece non avviene sotto win... e puoi comprendere quanto mi costa dire una cosa del

Re: [newbie-it] Surrisclaldamento e ventola

2002-11-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 08:12, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, sandro ha scritto: sul portatile, quando faccio un utilizzo massiccio del lettore cd ogni tanto la ventola entra in funzione - ma questo è un comportamento che il portatile ha sempre avuto - sia con win che con le varie versioni di linux che ci sono

Re: [newbie-it] Re:cambiare directory

2002-11-18 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 09:48, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Andrea Celli ha scritto: On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 17:01:55 +0100 gianni piazza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... .Succede anche che non legge i miei esercizi(sono all'inizio!!) con il perl a meno che non gli specifichi perl prima del nome del file ,nonostante i

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-18 Thread miKe
Alle 15:47, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Credo di avere risolto... Se uso il portatile con l'energia delle batterie funziona correttamente, senza ventola, se lo attacco alla corrente con o senza batterie avviene il surriscaldamento, cosa che invece non avviene

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 21:48, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, miKe ha scritto: al 99% dico una eresia.. per linuccio acpi è ancora in test, e probabilmente non funziona bene come con win$ il supporto del bios ad apm, invece, potrebbe non avere implementati alcuni accorgimenti, tipo disabilitare la batteria quando

[newbie-it] xine

2002-11-18 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Ciao a tutti, Sapete come si configura xine per vedere i dvd? O meglio quali plugin servono e dove si trovano? quando do play c'è questo messaggio di errore: there is no input plugin avaible to handle dvd://VTS_01_1.VOB. Maybe MRL syntax is wrong or file/stream source doesen't exist. Grazie

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-18 Thread miKe
Alle 22:02, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, Sapete come si configura xine per vedere i dvd? O meglio quali plugin servono e dove si trovano? io ho compilato xine lib e xine ui prima però avevo installato i codec di mpalyer aggiungendoli ad ld.so.conf

Re: Fwd: Re: [newbie-it] Che caldo!!

2002-11-18 Thread miKe
Alle 22:02, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Non so se c'entra quello che dico, ho notato che kde ha difficoltà a stabilire se sono sotto carica elettrica o se vado a batteria è un problema comune anche ad altri portatili. credo dipenda proprio da un supporto

Re: [newbie-it] xine

2002-11-18 Thread paolo brusasco
se ti può servire una risposta semplice: penso significhi che stai tentando di vedere un dvd criptato (quasi tutti i dvd del commercio) senza le librerie per la decriptazione. le librerie le trovi su http://plf.zarb.org/ un howto semplice lo trovi su http://www.trylinuxsd.com/dvd/ premesso che

Re: [newbie-it] Re: update mdk9

2002-11-18 Thread Fabio Z.
Qualcuno mi sa spiegare come mai non riesco a scaricare gli aggiornamenticon mandrake update? Grazie!! questo succede anche a me, li scarico a mano come rpm e quindi li istallo.ovviamente mi tocca istallare anche le dipendenze grazie per la risposta!Io alla fine sono riuscito a scaricare

Re: [newbie-it] protocollo fcp

2002-11-18 Thread Daniele Micci
Alle 19:30, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, hai scritto: Alle 19:14, lunedì 18 novembre 2002, hai scritto: )... per fare la controprova, potresti provare ad accedere allo stesso link usando (se lo hai installato) l'Internet Explorer. Ciao... Daniele Con explorer funziona, e è dura

RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
Where did you guys get ksensors from anyway?? urpmi ksensors didn't work, so i went and got the srpm for the latest at sourceforge and tried to rebuild it.. got a rpmb directory not found message... a heads up in the right direction would be great.. rgds Frank -Original Message-

Re: [newbie] RE: mandrake control center unreachable

2002-11-18 Thread ivette brusselmans
There might be something wrong with te way I partitioned my harddisk. Installing redhat also went wrong. So I tried to re-partition harddisk with Partitionmagic and got a lot of error messages. One of these days I'll fdisk evrything out and start from scratch. I'll let you know if this works.

RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/ chose the redhat rpm and installed with kpackage. works fine using setup from su. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002

Re: [newbie] How to open .exe files

2002-11-18 Thread Marcia
On Sunday 17 November 2002 10:30 pm, Spencer wrote: On November 17, 2002 07:24 pm, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Is there a program in linux that will open .exe files or programs? Thanks. Marcia Wine;-) Thank you everyone for answering so quickly. I never thought to use Wine before.

Re: [newbie] Brother printer - heads up

2002-11-18 Thread Ron Johnston
On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If you have a Brother HL-1040, HL-1050, HL-1060 or MFC-P2000, be aware that they are the subject of a factory recall campaign. There is a problem with the fuser cartridges (the expensive one) that can cause a fire. Details are available at

Re: [newbie] Brother printer - heads up

2002-11-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 18 November 2002 09:59 am, Ron Johnston wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 09:36, Carroll Grigsby wrote: snip Even though this message may be OT, I'm posting it because the recall has not been widely publicized. I only found out about it by accident when I visited the Brother site for

[newbie] RE: lilo install

2002-11-18 Thread cannewilson
That's a possibility, John. I'll wait until Terry comes back on line later today, to see if he has worked out how to correct things. If he can't sort it I'll try your way - it does sound more promising. Why didn't I think of that? Anne -- Original Message -- Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 15:25:10

[newbie] Office suite with database

2002-11-18 Thread cannewilson
Years ago I used Ability Office - DOS version - which was amazing in its capabilities. For instance it had live links between modules - updating a spreadsheet automatically updated charts and any other links made, and the whole suite sold for £25. A couple of years ago I realised that they were

[newbie] libaudiofile.so.0 missing

2002-11-18 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hello, I have just installed my soundcard. DrakConf automatically detected the sound card. However when I try to launch noatun (which I supposed to be the kde media player) I get the following message: noatun: error while loading shared libraries: libaudiofile.so.0: cannot load shared object

[newbie] Compaq portable hangs!!

2002-11-18 Thread Wim De Hul
Hello people! I'm having a annoying problem on my portable (a compaq Evo N600c). When i leave my portable for a while, the whole thing hangs! I can't even do a crtlalt F1! Thanx! Wim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] gnome won't start

2002-11-18 Thread Rooms Frederic
Hello, Due to an electric failure my PC was shutdown violently while I was working with Gnome. Since then I can't login anymore with gnome. I reinstalled gnome and delete all .gnome files but It still doesn't work. What can I do ? Thank you, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-18 Thread Technoslick
This is food for thought instead of a potential answer... The last few days, I have been struggling to get some old video cards and monitors to properly display X in RedHat 8.0, Mandrake 8.2 and 9.0. The difficulties have come about in both video drivers and version of the XFree86 server used.

[newbie] Onboard sound and OSS

2002-11-18 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I have LM 9 with onboard via 8233A sound. I am trying to delete all of the alsa and sound files so that I can successfully install and use the commercial OSS driver. So far I cannot get rid of all the needed files. I read somewhere that the best thing to do is to recompile the

[newbie] GUI root privileges

2002-11-18 Thread a107897
rpmdrake, as well as any program that requires root privileges (drakconf,..), when invoked from the menu in Gnome opens a little window for the root passwd. It takes the passwd, thinks about it, and then asks for it again, and again,... They work fine when invoked from a root shell, so I think the

RE: [newbie] martian source on syslog

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
my understanding of martians are lost packets usually due to bogus routing or badly spoofed address's... you might need to add just one iptables rule to your firewall to block martians.. (sorry can't tell you what it is offhand.. I never learned iptables as well as I did ipchains.) but since

Re: [newbie] OT: Root Password Failure

2002-11-18 Thread Robin Turner
Michael Viron wrote: As far as security goes, yes absolutely, you should password protect Grub, as well as place put a bios password on your system and disable booting from floppy and cd-rom. Anthony Not to mention that if you're using the machine as a server, it would be a wise idea to get a

RE: [newbie] martian source on syslog (YOUR ANSWER SIR!!! )

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
Try this line: echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/log_martians The firewall you were running obviously put a 1 in there... removing it should solve your probs... hope that helps.. rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

[newbie] cooker kernel???

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
Hi guys, Does anyone have a mdk9.0 system working with the latest cooker kernel?? I was thinking of trying it to see if it fixed supermount..?? any ideas ?? I'll roll my own, but don't think the time is worth it just to fix supermount. rgds Frank Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Downloading packages. [Solved]

2002-11-18 Thread Keith Powell
Hello Tony. Thanks for your reply in answer to my problem that I could not get urpmi or the Control Panel Software Management to recognise the new sources I had entered. I removed the old ones, and entered them again when connected to the Internet, as you said I should. It now works - at

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: http://ksensors.sourceforge.net/ chose the redhat rpm and installed with kpackage. works fine using setup from su. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Franki Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:06 AM To: Newbie

Re: [newbie] cooker kernel???

2002-11-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday November 18 2002 11:12 am, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone have a mdk9.0 system working with the latest cooker kernel?? tom$ uname -r 2.4.19-19k7 (I compiled it for Athlon from Mdk kernel-source) on tom# cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for setting up amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-18 Thread Jordan R. Thompson
I got pop-before-SMTP as suggested, but I can't find any documentation for it. I am afraid to install it without any documentation as it may do more harm than good until I get it configured right. Does anyone have documentation on this or can send me their configuration files? I am using

Re: [newbie] Desktop misalignment on laptop screen

2002-11-18 Thread Flux
Hmm, that food looks tasty, but I've had my share and I have to say it doesn't taste very good. :) That's one of the tricks I tried down my lengthy road of re-installations. I swear I must have tried all combinations that I could, with either XFree server version, and nothing worked for me,

Re: [newbie] Downloading packages.

2002-11-18 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Monday 18 November 2002 14:34, Keith Powell wrote: Should I have been connected to the Internet when I first entered the sources in the command line? Yes, and running console or xterm as root. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] slow boot

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:31, Jim Snyder wrote: Yes, I did the cmos thing, etc. It must be the network card. How do I stop the network from loading at startup? Thank you Are you really sure it's the network? Even if the network card is set for DHCP, the eth0 shouldn't take that long. I have

Re: [newbie] cooker kernel???

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:12, Franki wrote: Hi guys, Does anyone have a mdk9.0 system working with the latest cooker kernel?? I was thinking of trying it to see if it fixed supermount..?? any ideas ?? I'll roll my own, but don't think the time is worth it just to fix supermount.

Re: [newbie] Non-Destructive Resizing of NTFS Partitions

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:35, Technoslick wrote: I was doing a little reading and found the name of a Linux app that safely resizes NTFS partitions. (Win NT 4.0, Win 2K, Win XP...supposedly) This has been discussed here before, but I thought I would post it again for anyone needing it now,

Re: [newbie] ML 9.0 and fonts

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 17:39, BCSoft@TowerTraining wrote: Anyone else have trouble with crappy (technical term) looking fonts in ML 9.0 on a laptop? The last time I had fonts this crappy I was playing games on my Atari. tia R - Richard L. Babcock, Owner Tower Training At Tower

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, Stormjumper wrote: i'm wondering where samba is usually started in Mdk 8.2. the reason i'm asking is that everytime i wanna access my mdk 8.2 box from any windoze machine, i've to ssh in, and manually kill (as root) the most recent smbd process before i can

Re: [newbie] libaudiofile.so.0 missing

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 02:44, Rooms Frederic wrote: Hello, I have just installed my soundcard. DrakConf automatically detected the sound card. However when I try to launch noatun (which I supposed to be the kde media player) I get the following message: noatun: error while loading shared

Re: [newbie] Onboard sound and OSS

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 02:54, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have LM 9 with onboard via 8233A sound. I am trying to delete all of the alsa and sound files so that I can successfully install and use the commercial OSS driver. So far I cannot get rid of all the needed files. I read somewhere

[newbie] lilo install

2002-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 17:17:51 + From: John Richard Smith bagsofchoice Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lilo install Anne, Thinking back on it , I may of removed lilo altergether with a w98 bootup disc from the A: prompt , fdisk mbr, before attemting to replace

Re: [newbie] Changing display resolution

2002-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 9:23 pm, Warren Post wrote: El sáb, 16-11-2002 a las 07:02, Anne Wilson escribió: 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

Re: [newbie] Compaq portable hangs!!

2002-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 18 Nov 2002 4:09 pm, Wim De Hul wrote: Hello people! I'm having a annoying problem on my portable (a compaq Evo N600c). When i leave my portable for a while, the whole thing hangs! I can't even do a crtlalt F1! I had a similar problem on my desktop m/c under 8.2. Disabling power

Re: [newbie] is this list appropriate for settingup amailserveron9.0?

2002-11-18 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 04:47, Jordan R. Thompson wrote: I got pop-before-SMTP as suggested, but I can't find any documentation for it. I am afraid to install it without any documentation as it may do more harm than good until I get it configured right. Does anyone have documentation on this

[newbie] JPilot

2002-11-18 Thread Matt Harrison
I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this port is Com1I setup JPilot to use this port but still no sync. Am I missing something? -Matt Want to buy

Re: [newbie] Compaq portable hangs!!

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:19, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 18 Nov 2002 4:09 pm, Wim De Hul wrote: Hello people! I'm having a annoying problem on my portable (a compaq Evo N600c). When i leave my portable for a while, the whole thing hangs! I can't even do a crtlalt F1! I had a similar

Re: [newbie] JPilot

2002-11-18 Thread Bill Spatz
On Monday 18 November 2002 13:32, Matt Harrison wrote: I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this port is Com1I setup JPilot to use this port but still no

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
thank you stephen. the issue is not so much my smb.conf, since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool is starting smbd the 2nd time. if i can turn that off, my problem will be solved. thanks On 19 Nov 2002 06:39:44 +1100 Stephen Kuhn

Re: [newbie] JPilot

2002-11-18 Thread Matt Harrison
On Monday 18 November 2002 03:44 pm, Bill Spatz wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 13:32, Matt Harrison wrote: I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this

Re: [newbie] JPilot

2002-11-18 Thread Matt Harrison
On Monday 18 November 2002 03:44 pm, Bill Spatz wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 13:32, Matt Harrison wrote: I am having problems syncing my Palm Pilot via JPilot. I am using a Toshiba Satellite 1800-S204 and the cradle is plugged in to the serial port in the back. Under windows, this

[newbie] DNS-question

2002-11-18 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, I encountered a little strange problem when we moved our network at work today. On my box I have another box as DNS which was done later then mine which meant that I couldn't surf and so on so I needed to change the DNS to the ISP's to be able to surf. Now my question, do I really

[newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-18 Thread Anne Wilson
Thanks to the questions Terry asked last night and John's suggestions today, I have finally achieved a partially workable lilo. Problem is, the brain stops working with anything like efficiency when the going gets not just rough but crucial. Eventually it dawned on me that I have a boot disk

Re: [newbie] libaudiofile.so.0 missing

2002-11-18 Thread Robin Ballantine
On Monday 18 November 2002 3:44 pm, Rooms Frederic wrote: Hello, I have just installed my soundcard. DrakConf automatically detected the sound card. However when I try to launch noatun (which I supposed to be the kde media player) I get the following message: noatun: error while loading

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:46, Stormjumper wrote: thank you stephen. the issue is not so much my smb.conf, since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool is starting smbd the 2nd time. if i can turn that off, my problem will be solved.

Re: [newbie] JPilot

2002-11-18 Thread bascule
alter the permissions of ttyS0 to allow your user to read/write to it, assuning that isn't already the case that should do the trick bascule On Monday 18 Nov 2002 8:55 pm, Matt Harrison wrote: Nevermind, I had to run it as ROOT in order to get it to work. Seems odd to me, but oh well, it

[newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread joe
Anyone else find that the spell checker is especially poor in open office? I know that none are perfect but...other than really common errors that it fixes automatically, it doesn't seem to find them. I have found that evolution is better at pointing out my mistakes. Any yet I can't copy text from

Re: [newbie] GUI root privileges

2002-11-18 Thread Derek Jennings
Are you using the final released version of 9.0? Reason I ask is that I saw this behaviour in one of the beta releases and reported it on Mandrake Cooker. I have not seen it in the final release. BTW: Have you tried it in KDE? The mechanism is slightly different and the prompt window is not

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 18 November 2002 09:53 pm, joe wrote: Anyone else find that the spell checker is especially poor in open office? I know that none are perfect but...other than really common errors that it fixes automatically, it doesn't seem to find them. I have found that evolution is better at

RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Smith
I got mine from the gentoo portage tree...but I'm running gentoo not Mandrake :-). Terry Smith Cape Cod USA On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 03:06, Franki wrote: Where did you guys get ksensors from anyway?? urpmi ksensors didn't work, so i went and got the srpm for the latest at sourceforge and tried

Re: [newbie] resetting setserial

2002-11-18 Thread bascule
teh rc.local is just a script, edit in vi or whatever and add the line you use at the cli to the end of the file, save and on reboot everything should be done bascule On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:18 am, David Farrington wrote: Having hacked my way into using my Archtek Smartlink 5634PCV Surfrider

[newbie] Moving /var/www to different drive

2002-11-18 Thread Todd Slater
I have an extra hard drive and I'm thinking about using it for /var/www or /var/ftp. I already have those on /, obviously. Is there any problem if I rename /var/www something like /var/www2, then make the 2nd hard drive /var/www, and copy stuff from the old to the new? Todd Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread Pilagá
El Lun 18 Nov 2002 07:13, escribieron: I also was not able to find a version of ksensors that would cleanly install in either M8.2 or M9.0, where did you get yours. Where did you guys get ksensors from anyway?? urpmi ksensors didn't work, so i went and got the srpm for the latest at

Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

2002-11-18 Thread Terry Smith
Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza. Terry Smith On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:01, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks to the questions Terry asked last night and John's suggestions today, I have finally

Re: [newbie] addendum

2002-11-18 Thread Alexa Pongracz
Just to let everyone know how grateful I am for the help. I finally have Mandrake reinstalled and it was by pushing a button at the bottom of where you key in the settings...it automatically installed and I don't even really remember what I did as I had gone over and over and over things, gotten

[newbie] usb cd burner

2002-11-18 Thread Jeremy Seminoff
I can't get my usb cd burner to work (read or write). It's a Melco-Bufallo J1610U2, and I'm running ML 9.0 on a i586. The crazy thing is that I installed linux from this cd burner (made a boot floppy to point to the cdrw) and now I can't access it. When I try, I get this error message: Unable to

Re: [newbie] spell check in open office

2002-11-18 Thread joe
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 16:00, Matt Harrison wrote: I do have aspell running and my OO still has crappy spell check. Mine is so bad it is even missing words I misspell on purpose to test it. -Matt I also have aspell and 3 kinds of English dictionaries installed. I also purposely

Re: [newbie] ECS K7S5A mobo

2002-11-18 Thread Linus Drouhard
I have one and my son has one. We're both running 1 GHz Durons. Everything is working extremely well for us. I've also put together another one with a 950 MHz Duron for a friend, also a success. I've not tried them with any flavor of Athlon. I read some of the posts on the K7S5A and

[newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-18 Thread joe
I have no idea where to even start looking for my problem on his one. Cdr/rw worked like a dream, and is currently burning a cd as i write this. But it will not read a cd in konqueror.When I try to install a package from my mandrake 9 cd it spins up,then opens and asks for cd1 again when it is

RE: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread Franki
DOH My rpmb error message was caused by not having rpm-build and rpm-devel installed.. urpmi rpm-build rpm-devel did the job... I can build stuff now.. :-) Sometimes I can be quite the dumbass :-) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 18 November 2002 10:32 pm, joe wrote: I have no idea where to even start looking for my problem on his one. Cdr/rw worked like a dream, and is currently burning a cd as i write this. But it will not read a cd in konqueror.When I try to install a package from my mandrake 9 cd it spins

Re: [newbie] Moving /var/www to different drive

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
i think what you suggested works i was doing that not too long ago, albeit with a slightly diff method. 1. mount the new hdd in a temp location, eg /mnt/new_hd 2. stop apache and a couple of personal crons that worked on /var/www 3. copy the stuff from /var/www to /mnt/new_hd 4. move /var/www to

Re: [newbie] question MCC, samba and /etc/init.d

2002-11-18 Thread Stormjumper
On 19 Nov 2002 08:15:31 +1100 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 07:46, Stormjumper wrote: thank you stephen. the issue is not so much my smb.conf, since killing the 2nd smbd process solves the problems. rather, i'm stumped as to which script/tool is

Re: [newbie] NFS Impasse

2002-11-18 Thread magnet
On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 3:23 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 18 November 2002 05:53 pm, you wrote: Hi again, Do you have any entries in your /etc/hosts.allow or in /etc/hosts.deny? I keep reading in these HOWTO pages about the fact that NFS is inherently insecure so adding portmap: ALL

Re: [newbie] PPPoE in Allied Modem.

2002-11-18 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
Em Sab 16 Nov 2002 16:50, Stephen Kuhn escreveu: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 01:40, Bruno Gunter wrote: Hi all, HI! 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);

Re: [newbie] cdr/rw no longer reading

2002-11-18 Thread joe
From comparing my fstab to yours I can't see any (important) differences. here is mine: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /fat vfat umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount

[newbie] Serial comm. App?

2002-11-18 Thread Sekurity Wizard
Hey - I'm in Linux now but I miss having SecureCRT (those of you who know what that is) as my serial comm. Application. I connect to a lot of network appliances and do command-line editing at the box at time, or just to watch debug messages... What's the best app. To use to do this sort of thing

Re: [newbie] martian source on syslog (YOUR ANSWER SIR!!! )

2002-11-18 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Wonderful, thanks a lot, it did the trick! I am always amazed of how easily can Linux kernel be reconfigured, provided you know how... :-) Could you post the link you found? Thanks again, you where very helpful! raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try this line: echo 0

Re: [newbie] GKRELLM and LM_SENSORS

2002-11-18 Thread John Richard Smith
Mine is a K7T266 Pro2 mobo ,it seems detect everything I have. John Terry Smith wrote: John, Refresh my memory...what mobo are you running? I had lm_sensors running on my Asus A7M266 (AMD chip) but it has never worked on my Asus A7V233 (Via chip). Maybe my kernel needs reconfiguring??