Re: [newbie-it] mplayer

2002-12-07 Thread guido
salva a tutta la ml (e scusate OE ma sono al lavoro) ho istallato mplayer dai sorgenti e non andato a buon fine. Forse ho capito anche la causa. Ma ora come si disistalla; non sembra tanto facile come con i pacchetti. Si può istallare sopra ? grazie guido - Original Message

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

2002-12-07 Thread Germano
Il 19:08, venerdì 06 dicembre 2002, Emiliano La Licata hai scritto: Alle 15:37, giovedì 5 dicembre 2002, Germano ha scritto: Ti rispondo pubblicamente, ma stiamo creando un grande OT che non so quanto sia gradito, possiamo poi parlarne in privato se ti va... credo che linux e gnu siano -

[newbie-it] -unknown

2002-12-07 Thread rino favretto
Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a tutti:

Re: [newbie-it] linux su cellulare

2002-12-07 Thread Roberto C . 2
Non saprei, però tutto può essere, ho letto un articolo che parlava di come alcuni personeggi hanno crashato la XBox di Microsoft montando LINUX e facendola diventare un mini PC - Original Message - From: Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ml newbie-it [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [newbie-it] mplayer

2002-12-07 Thread freefred
On Saturday 07 December 2002 9:02 am, guido wrote about Re: [newbie-it] mplayer: salva a tutta la ml (e scusate OE ma sono al lavoro) ho istallato mplayer dai sorgenti e non andato a buon fine. Forse ho capito anche la causa. Ma ora come si disistalla; non sembra tanto facile come con i

Re: [newbie-it] -unknown

2002-12-07 Thread francesco.melo
rino favretto wrote: Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.! quello che poi dovrebbe essere lo spirito di linux. Ritorno a debian e saluti a

[newbie-it] Applicare la patch

2002-12-07 Thread stormymonday
Ciao a tutti Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? e quali sono i comando per apllicare la patch? ho una mdk9 con kernel 2.4.19 grazie per eventuali aiuti

[newbie-it] LAN - DHCP - DNS

2002-12-07 Thread Pollo
Potreste spiegarmi quali sono i passi da compiere per configurare una rete LAN. Mi sono arenato all'installazione del server dhcp. Ho installato il server dhcp e sembra funzionare... Non so però come risolvere i nomi dei pc della rete locale, visto che ora il loro IP è dinamico... Prima avevo

[newbie-it] Bug in KDevelop

2002-12-07 Thread Santarella Benedetto
Salve, ho scritto un piccolo programma, che usa l'istruzione fork, quando lo eseguo competamente, non ho problemi, ma quando eseguo il Debug, per quello che ho capito, crea un processo figlio, ma vuoto! Sbaglio io o c'e' un bug in KDevelop?? La mia versione di KDevelop e' 2.1beta su KDE 2.2.2

Re: [newbie-it] -unknown

2002-12-07 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 10:27, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, rino favretto ha scritto: Alcuni giorni fa ho esposto alla lista un mio problema su mdk 9.0 . Non volevo avere la soluzione, ma un consiglio, un prova così,smanetta.!

Re: [newbie-it] Applicare la patch

2002-12-07 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 17:02, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? Se non hai i sorgenti del kernel in /usr/src vanno messi: o scompatti un file che trovi p.es. su

Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!

2002-12-07 Thread Stefano Sebastiani
Hai scaricato dei file che NON vanno bene per la tua distribuzione!!! Ero convinto che fossero per MDK 9.0 come detto ina email trovata con GOOGLE||| * devi eliminare la roba che hai installato * devi scaricare i due sorgenti _.tar.gz_ (i sorgenti sono gli _unici_ a poter essere

[newbie-it] DVD

2002-12-07 Thread Nicola
Buon giorno a tutta la Ml, vorrei porre una domanda, che mi pare non sia mai passata. Se sbaglio spero di non venir punito troppo duramente. Se ho un filmato digitale (ad esempio un film catturato dalla tele) esiste sotto linux la possibilità di fare l'encoding in divx? Questa

Re: [newbie-it] OT: mi sono laureato

2002-12-07 Thread Chiara Bianchi
Ciao Germano! On Thu, 5 Dec 2002 11:44:19 +0100 Germano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ma LaTex funziona su tutte le piattaforme. Io ancora non lo conoscevo che vergogna! Comunque perchè usarlo sotto windows? Io ho fatto la mia scelta... Il windowsiano di solito non si fida [] o dice di

Re: [newbie-it] Applicare la patch

2002-12-07 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:02, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti Vorrei applicare la patch 2.4.20 al kernel ma nella directory /usr/src non ho nessun link al kernel come si fa a crearlo? in /usr/src devi avere un linux-2.4.19 crea

Re: [newbie-it] LAN - DHCP - DNS

2002-12-07 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:25, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, Pollo ha scritto: Potreste spiegarmi quali sono i passi da compiere per configurare una rete LAN. Mi sono arenato all'installazione del server dhcp. Ho installato il server dhcp e sembra funzionare... Non so

[newbie-it] AlcatelSpeedTouchUSB + MDK9 ...in teoria semplice!

2002-12-07 Thread Roberto C . 2°
Ciao a tutti, le ho provate tutte, sia con il tutorial SpeedtouchItalianHOWTO (eterno!) che con il semplice supporto Mandrake+mgmt.o, nulla!!! ..il problema rimane, durante il boot la connesione fallisce dopo 2 min. dando un errore di comando della riga 150 del file

Re: [newbie-it] MDK 9 e non ha pi X!!!!!

2002-12-07 Thread LukenShiro
Alle 21:45, sabato 7 dicembre 2002, Stefano Sebastiani ha scritto: Devo ancora trovare il modo di centrare lo schermo (è disassato sulla destrta), e modificare al volo le definizioni (senza passare da XFdrake). http://www.freeonline.org/articolo_linux_dtml?id_articolo=51 N.B. estrema

Re:[newbie-it]masterizzare audio

2002-12-07 Thread gianni piazza
Ciao a tutta la ml! Innanzi tutto volevo ringraziare tutti quelli che mi hanno risposto sui miei problemi con xine e mplayer(a proposito.grazie ai vostri consigli funziona tutto a meraviglia!!) e poi tanto per cambiare vi sottopongo una nuova problematica: è possibile masterizzare di cd

Re: [newbie] stopping X?

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 15:28, Jerry wrote: OK, I did that and yes, it did what you said it would do. It changed my login from graphical to console which is fine. Now, please bear with me. I'm used to all the graphical interfaces though i still do a LOT in console. However I'm still a

Re: [newbie] Can't compile - Mesa/GLUT problem

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:14, Ronald J. Hall wrote: A friend of ours at our LUG wanted to play this chess program called Knightcap but he had troubles with it, so Carl L. and I offered to try it out. He's using Libranet and I'm running v8.2 and 9.0 of Mandrake. Both of use could do a

Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 19:15, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a. sunshine),

Re: [newbie] stopping X?

2002-12-07 Thread Jerry
You don't need to run GDM, XDM or KDM at all - not from a console. If you want to easily switch between desktops, you can install the rpm for Xtart (on the third CD) or download SelectWM (which is nice, too)Xtart will allow you to run whichever WM/Desktop you wish...FROM the

Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
On Friday 06 Dec 2002 6:23 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 02:09, magnet wrote: Hi all, Can you view on a linux box a commercial DVD playing on a DVD player built into a windows laptop across 100Mbit ethernet? I have ogle and libs needed already installed, and have used

Re: [newbie] Remote DVD over ethernet

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 20:43, magnet wrote: Oh no, the dreaded VNC issue again...! :)) VNC has never worked on these machines. As you'll remember Stephen, these machines' have a mind of their own most days. VNC generates X server problems all the time here. I would LOVE to be able to open

SV: [newbie] imac install

2002-12-07 Thread Farid Ghussein
Hi Mark, I found out what the problem was. I made a reinstall of Mandrake (I've made about 5 reinstalls by now) and I chose the older video driver (not the 3D-accellerated one that was offered). Now the system works almost fine. The only thing that doesn't work is Nautilus. I can't seem to

[newbie] Auto login

2002-12-07 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie _ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE*

[newbie] Kmail help needed

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
Can anyone tell me how I can edit the collected addresses in KMail? They don't appear in the KAddressBook, which is what opens if you click the icon. Inevitably I have collected a couple of incorrect entries, which need to be removed. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Gimp

2002-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. Thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Auto login

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 11:49 am, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie Mandrake Control Centre Boot Boot Configuration Click on No, I don't want

Re: [newbie] Auto login

2002-12-07 Thread Frank Mertens
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 12:49, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Thx, Ongkie _ Help STOP

Re: [newbie] Auto login

2002-12-07 Thread Anthony Abby
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 06:49, Sasongko Pribadi Djoko wrote: Dear Friends, My Linux run KDE 3.0 automatically when I turn my PC on. What I have to do to make it start with the login screen ? Open MCC Boot Boot Config click No, I don't want autologin. You could also just run drakboot and

[newbie] Spamassassinpermsgstatus.pm

2002-12-07 Thread Paul
Hi everyone, I upgraded Spamassassin to 2.43 this morning. It complained about not having a file PerMsgStatus.pm. I found that at CPAN.org and installed it, but it is complaining still: Failed to run DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO SpamAssassin test, skipping: (Can't locate object method

[newbie] rpms descriptions

2002-12-07 Thread Pilagá
Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPMS ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are listed without description. So, is there any way to fix this? Gracias -- Pilagá GNU/Linux Mandrake 9.0

Re: [newbie] Gimp

2002-12-07 Thread Jan Wilson
* John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021207 06:12]: Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. http://carol.gimp.org/other/sloth/diary/redeye.html LOTS of good stuff on gimp.org! -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College |

[newbie] OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has detected an error 116

[newbie] Anyone writing DVDs with Mandrake?

2002-12-07 Thread Jim Snyder
Hi I am considering purchasing the new Sony DRU 500 DVD writer and was wondering if anyone has had experience using the drive in Mandrake 9.0? I would like to create DVDs from home videos taken with a Sony digital video camera. Many thanks in advance!! Jim Snyder Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA, /home/anne/.kde/share/apps/kab Don't forget you will need to 'show hidden files'

[newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Dennis Sue
Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it worked out, and my opinions. Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such as the HP 315 camera ), And also so that I could download Mandrake 9.0, (

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Folks, I thought I'd give you an update on my final decision, How it worked out, and my opinions. Having purchased a new harddrive yesterday, I partitioned it and loaded Win2000 for any unsupported devices ( such

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 1:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA,

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Dennis Sue
On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't configure ISA soundcards, you have to

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Thread Poogle
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for KAddressBook stored? TIA,

Re: [newbie] Linux meetups anyone?

2002-12-07 Thread ET
On Saturday 07 December 2002 03:15 am, Lanman wrote: Talk about being a mushroom Stephen! No wonder I've seen so many posts to the list by you! You must have one massive callouse on your typing finger by now! This Meetup thing might be a good opportunity for you to get some vitamin D (a.k.a.

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 3:38 pm, Poogle wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 H:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for

Re: [newbie] KAddressBook

2002-12-07 Thread Spencer
On December 7, 2002 07:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 1:53 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: On Friday 06 December 2002 19:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 06 Dec 2002 5:18 pm, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, Does anybody know in what file are the e-mail addresses for

Re: [newbie] rpms descriptions

2002-12-07 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday December 7 2002 07:37 am, Pilagá wrote: Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM S ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are listed without description. So, is there any way to fix

Re: [newbie] stopping X?

2002-12-07 Thread Barry Michels
On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:28 pm, Jerry wrote: tested out to see if ctrl-alt-backspace would stop xwindows like it did the first time. instead of stopping xwindows totally, it restarted gdm and I'm stuck back at the same place I was before. I know there's got to be a way to do this. I

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Lanman wrote: I Gotta agree with Mark on this one! It's AMD or nothing. Every single sytem I have and every system I've sold has been armed with AMD, and I've had absolutely no disappointments. Period. As a matter of actual fact, my dual Athlon MP based servers have consistently out-performed IBM

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread RichardA
On Saturday 07 December 2002 16:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the Linux

Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to boot from. This is the message I got: Partition Magic has

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Dennis Sue wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola. LM9.0 doesn't

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:34:47 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think

Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-07 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition Magic rescue disk to

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Franki wrote: hmmm,, Normally I'd agree with that, I wouldn't buy a P4 CPU unless hell froze over sometime soon... However, my boss is about to supply me with a Dell Inspiron 8200 fully kitted for me at no cost to myself.. Its got a 2 or 2.2gig CPU in it. (dunno which yet) and its a P4 :-( but

Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed

2002-12-07 Thread RichardA
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Can anyone tell me how I can edit the collected addresses in KMail? They don't appear in the KAddressBook, which is what opens if you click the icon. Inevitably I have collected a couple of incorrect entries, which need to be removed.

Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-07 Thread David Robertson
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 16:50, Anne Wilson wrote: Partition Magic has detected an error 116 on the partition starting at sector 25912845 on disk 2. The starting LBA value is 25912845 and the CHS value is 16450559. The LBA and CHS values must be equal Partition Magic has verified

Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed

2002-12-07 Thread Sascha Noyes
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Have a look in: .kde/share/config/kmailrc search for the line: 'Recent Addresses=' I am however using cooker (kde 3.1 rc3), so your mileage may vary P.S. Richard, don't set 'reply-to' in your email client, it messes up the mailing list

Re: [newbie] OT? LBA and CHS

2002-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 07 Dec 2002 4:36 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Although lilo can cope with the 8.2, 9.0 and win4lin stanzas, it can no longer operate the windows stanza. In an effort to find out whether windows is banjoed or the mbr, I used a Partition

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Lanman wrote: Can't argue with you Franki, if you intend to make sense! There goes a whole string of smartass remarks I had for Flamers! Took the fun out of my whole day. I guess I'll just grin and bear it! LOL ! Lanman not to worry Lanman...I'm sure an opportunity will present itself here

[newbie] Thank you Anne, Anthony Frank (Auto login disabled)

2002-12-07 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
Dear Friends, Finally I can set my Mandrake Linux to start with login screen whenever I turn on my PC. Strange thing is I don't have MCC boot in my system. I did change the boot setting by running drakboot directly. Thx, Ongkie

Re: [newbie] about to give up

2002-12-07 Thread David Robertson
On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 05:00, Mark Weaver wrote: David Robertson wrote: On Fri, 2002-12-06 at 11:41, Mark Weaver wrote: David, How is it that you're configuring your network and dialup settings? I've got two Mandrake 8.2 servers running. Setup network once and haven't had to touch it

Re: [newbie] Kmail help needed

2002-12-07 Thread RichardA
On Sunday 08 December 2002 12:50, Sascha Noyes wrote: Have a look in: .kde/share/config/kmailrc search for the line: 'Recent Addresses=' Thanks P.S. Richard, don't set 'reply-to' in your email client, it messes up the mailing list threading. OK Richard Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down

2002-12-07 Thread Gary Montalbine
Shutdown ends up in the same place using KDE or terminal shutdown. The system will reboot. In fact I reboot into Windows and then shutdown from there. It was suggested in one reply that it might be my MB is not supported. In the shutdown the script reaches Power down. general protection

Re: [newbie] Squirrelmail

2002-12-07 Thread Mark Weaver
Anders Lind wrote: On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 13:25:07 + Mark Annandale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can use http or https to acces my apache server - I should have been more specific. I do not get anything when trying http://localhost/squirrelmail (or https://blah blah). All that is displayed is

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:34, Dennis Sue wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 09:38 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 09:02:05 -0500 There is one problem though, My sound card doesn't work, and I can't configure it. But Windows won't either so I think it might be crapola.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down

2002-12-07 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 07 December 2002 12:19 pm, Gary Montalbine wrote: Shutdown ends up in the same place using KDE or terminal shutdown. The system will reboot. In fact I reboot into Windows and then shutdown from there. It was suggested in one reply that it might be my MB is not supported. In the

Re: [newbie] Spamassassinpermsgstatus.pm

2002-12-07 Thread Paul
In reply to Franki's mail, d.d. Sun, 8 Dec 2002 02:42:07 +0800: All properly written perl modules contain their own documentation.. its called pod and the perl inturpreter ignores it when its called.. so don't worry about it.. Okay, thanks for the reassurance. are you sure its the right version

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:09, Mark Weaver wrote: Lanman, Have you ever experienced the joys of a Novell print server? and I'm not being facecious here either. Mind you now, I'm taking into consideration the fact that user setup has a lot to do with the stability or lack there of for the

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 03:13, Mark Weaver wrote: Frank, The thing is: Does one really notice a real difference above say 1.5Ghz if the machine is endowed with the proper amount of RAM for the OS and apps being run on the machine? ( proper amount of RAM = 256 minimum ). I know I haven't.

RE: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 05:49, Franki wrote: I imagine compiling big apps, like a linux kernel would be alot faster on a 3 gig then a 1.5... the question is, is the difference worth the extra bucks? I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an XP2800, but I can't see any reason to upgrade my

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down

2002-12-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of over the last 2 years. HTH I have to add my recent

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.2 shut down

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 06:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 07 December 2002 08:27 am, you wrote: In the above delete the space after -d and delete -p and save. This stops the script but you still have to manually shut down the computer. This is the best solution found that I know of

Re: [newbie] Fresh Install / Mandrake 9.0

2002-12-07 Thread Dennis Sue
On Saturday 07 December 2002 11:47 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:34:47 -0500 Well, I guess you can always buy a supported soundcard, but to get your current sound hardware working I think you should supply a few more details like what card do you have, what happened when

[newbie] solution to that pesky NS/moz/phoenix profile

2002-12-07 Thread Todd Slater
If netscape/mozilla/phoenix is already running, clicking a link in my mail client wanted to start a new instance of ns/moz/phoenix. If I told it to open a url in a new tab, it would, but only if ns/moz/phoenix was running. I guess you get the idea. This little script will just test to see if the

Re: [newbie] rpms descriptions

2002-12-07 Thread Pilagá
El Sáb 07 Dic 2002 13:04, Tom Brinkman escribió: On Saturday December 7 2002 07:37 am, Pilagá wrote: Buenas: In MCC, Software manager, I have added this source: ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.0/contrib/RPM S ./synthesis.hdlist2.cz but all rpms are

Re: [newbie] Gimp

2002-12-07 Thread John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 22:59, John Richard Smith wrote: Can someone point me how to correct red-eye from my pics in gimp. Thanks, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you tried to isolate the color and then select color range and then replace color ?

[newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

2002-12-07 Thread Andrei Raevsky
Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette: I was given an old Quantex N30W-15 (on which Mandrake 9

Re: [newbie] laptop hardware question (sorry)

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 11:02, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi, This is somewhat an illegitimate question, as it deals with hardware and not with linux per se. However, since there are quite a few helpful folks around here, and since my laptop runs Mandrake 9, I dare this breach of etiquette:

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing - SUPER EASY

2002-12-07 Thread _nasturtium
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Though in principle it is not as unlikely as all that. Our family lan (3 generations) entails 5 macines, accessing through a router/adsl. The router has its own firewall, and we made a choice to stick with static IP addresses. I would not want

Re: [newbie] editing .avi files

2002-12-07 Thread _nasturtium
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 02:29 pm, joe wrote: I am looking for something like virtualdub(nandub) that I can use to split an avi. Does anyone have a recommendation because my searches have been fruitless so far. Hello, Cinelerra (successor to BCast2000) from www.heroinevirtual.com comes in a

[newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Cox
I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory I can't recover from this. You may reboot your

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Sunday 08 December 2002 01:38, Dan Cox wrote: This happens almost immediately after I hot enter at the Press enter to install Mandrake screen.I've tried using different disks thinking maybe the disk was scratched and also tried a text install with the same results.Any help is appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 11:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation volume, the following fatal error occurred FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a directory

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Dan Cox
I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Dan Cox On Sat, 2002-12-07 at 17:38, Dan Cox wrote: I'm receiving the following error while trying to install Mandrake 9.0. error in exec of stage2 :-( trying to execute '/usr/bin/runinstall2' from the installation

[newbie] adding window manager

2002-12-07 Thread John Michael Drouhard
I use KDM for my window manager login. I have recently installed FVWM and am wondering how to add this executable to the list - /usr/bin/fvwm2. Do I have to edit the Xsession file, and if so, how? Thanks, John Drouhard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
Hi all, I have installed VNC server on machine #2 and have started it up as root. On machine #1 I ran 'vncviewer linux2.name:1', entered my password set up for vnc and it started up into a very boring grey background with a white shell opened on it. Now... many times I have read you can have

Re: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 12:14, Dan Cox wrote: I just tried a network install and recieved the same error message. Ehmmm...have you formatted / partitioned the drive that's your target? Or is there an existing installation of SOMETHING there? -- Sun Dec 8 12:20:01 EST 2002 12:20pm up

Re: [newbie] Getting VNC to use KDE

2002-12-07 Thread Frank Mertens
On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:45, Frank Mertens wrote: On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 02:25, magnet wrote: Hi all, I have installed VNC server on machine #2 and have started it up as root. On machine #1 I ran 'vncviewer linux2.name:1', entered my password set up for vnc and it started up into a

RE: [newbie] Install fails

2002-12-07 Thread walt
It could be that mandrake 9.0 is not compatible with your machine. I had to put mandrake 8.2 on my computer, which works beautifully, make a boot disk using an older kernel image, boot to that disk and then was able to do an update to 8.2. If I tried a clean install, it wouldn't work. Everything

[newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?

2002-12-07 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Got a 3 comp LAN. My main computer is running Linux - 56k connection and both the other comps do sharing under Mandrake v8.2 just fine. Yeah, its slow, but I let my sons browse to find school articles sometimes (with me right over their shoulders!). Anyways, my 12 year old picked up this

Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr]

2002-12-07 Thread A. A.
Toshiba Tecra 9000... have you tried Mandrake 9 on a laptop of that model? From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Red Hat rescues me [adr] Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:16:14 -0500 A. A. wrote: Me too... Regrettably I could

Re: [newbie] Internet connection sharing with Windows?

2002-12-07 Thread magnet
Hi, Right, just been here with this problem. Set a specific IP addy as you had for the PC and use netmask 255.255.255.0 Disable the WINS Configuration. Add gateway to point to your linux box. Here is the part I had to change for some reason. Enable DNS Configuration. My linux hostname is