Re: [newbie-it] [OT] auguri!

2003-01-02 Thread Felice Gaudente
Ricambio augurando un felice e prospero 2003! From: Daniele Micci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Linux Mandrake Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie-it] [OT] auguri! Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:08:48 +0100 Ciao a tutti i Linuxari in ascolto, e soprattutto: *** BUON

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza

2003-01-02 Thread Sandro Porrazzini
Il gio, 2003-01-02 alle 00:31, miKe ha scritto: installare il 2000 su fat32 è troppo limitativo conviene usare una fat32 intermedia, solo per interscambio sarà la 'cartella documenti' per win$ e 'quellochetipare' per GNU/Linux Si lo so, intendevo questo: ridimensionare il disco in due

Re: [newbie-it] Consiglio modem via cavo

2003-01-02 Thread Andrea Celli
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002 21:16:48 -0800 Di Fresco Marco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Se invece è qualcosa di diverso, allora vedi il cable-modem HowTo che trovi nella tua distro o in rete. Visto che sei negli USA e hai un oggetto che non esiste in Italia, l'unico riferimento che ti posso dare è:

Re: [newbie-it] Aggiungere un nuovo hard disk

2003-01-02 Thread LukenShiro
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, francesco.melo wrote: in nessun modo mi accettava il secondo hard disk come secondary master spostandolo come secondary slave , invece, tutto è andato liscio... qualcuno mi sa dare una spiegazione in proposito? Mi sembra strano che sia il disco fisso a fare i capricci, e'

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 00:46, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, miKe ha scritto: ti incollo un pezzo di lilo.conf *** # Linux bootable partition config begins image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_2.4.20 read-only image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-2 root = /dev/hda6 label = Slack_2.4.19

[newbie-it] kde 3.0.5

2003-01-02 Thread ba-rk
un saluto a tutta la lista ho trovato su una rivista KDE 3.0.5 e volevo (se possibile) installarlo sul Mandrake 8.2 il dubbio è se devo rimuovere il KDE installato da l Mandrake 8.2,oppure vado tranquillo come sempre ,spero di essere stato chiaro grazie mario

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 17:09, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: (se noti il kernel mandrake ha un nome che termina in -xxx.mdk) quel valore è dato proprio dalla variabile in questione, tu potrai chiamarla 'pluto' ed avere quindi un vmlinuz-2.4.20-pluto (nome che darai tu a bzImage)

Re: [newbie-it] Aggiungere un nuovo hard disk

2003-01-02 Thread francesco.melo
LukenShiro wrote: On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, francesco.melo wrote: in nessun modo mi accettava il secondo hard disk come secondary master spostandolo come secondary slave , invece, tutto è andato liscio... qualcuno mi sa dare una spiegazione in proposito? Mi sembra strano che sia il disco

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 17:47, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Al discorso fatto nella precedente email aggiungerei una cosa che forse è importante, e cioè che il sistema stesso ha ribattezzato il nuovo kernel 2.4.19-16mdkcustom, quindi potrei lasciare tutto come è, perché i due kernel

[newbie-it] Problemi con supermount

2003-01-02 Thread Tommaso
Salve a tutti, ho rimosso il supermount dall'fstab e tutto funziona ottimamante. Purtroppo però quando accedo al sistema mi viene ricreata la cartella Removable Media sul desktop che, non avvalendosi del supermount, è diventata inutile. Come faccio a rimuoverla definitivamente? Grazie Tommaso

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza

2003-01-02 Thread paolo brusasco
veramente l'avevo fatto su una partizione (hda1) da 30 giga con su 2 giga scarsi di dati, ed ho fatto scandisk e defrag, finito il defrag, riavviato, ridimensionato a 20 giga, fregato (tanto già lo sapevo). l'unica cosa che non avevo fatto era mettere a zero la memoria virtuale. ciao. miKe ha

Re: [newbie-it] Installazione e convivenza

2003-01-02 Thread gianni piazza
Alle 23:51, martedì 31 dicembre 2002, Corrado ha scritto: Il mar, 2002-12-31 alle 09:43, Sandro Porrazzini ha scritto: Il lun, 2002-12-30 alle 23:23, Corrado ha scritto: Il consiglio su come procedere: - ridimensionare la partizione ntfs con l'utility di xp Però l'altro os in questione

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Sorpresa!! in /usr/src/arch/boot/ non c'è bzImage che cosa può essere accaduto?? Ulp, un caso ancora più disperato del mio! Possibile che non siano stati segnalati errori durante la compilazione? Per un di più ti scrivo il contenuto della mia cartella: bbootsect* bbootsect.o bbootsect.s

Re: [newbie-it] Help Grip

2003-01-02 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
salve, ho installato grip (su mandrake 8.2) ed ho gia' dei problemi... un'altra domanda: avendo gia' un file wav su hd, come convertirlo in mp3? prova con lame da terminale e digiti la seguente riga di comando: lame file.wav file.mp3 invio dove file.wav è il tuo file da trasformare in

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:47, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata , in merito a Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel, ha scritto: (se noti il kernel mandrake ha un nome che termina in -xxx.mdk) quel valore è dato proprio dalla variabile in

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 17:09, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata , in merito a Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel, ha scritto: Ma quanti Kernel hai nel tuo sistema?? Che ci fai co tutti sti kernel?? :) l'ultimo lo affianco al penultimo per almeno un

Re: [newbie-it] compilazione del kernel

2003-01-02 Thread Emiliano La Licata
Alle 19:55, giovedì 2 gennaio 2003, Emiliano La Licata ha scritto: Si può ritentare di ricompilarlo partendo dalla directory /usr/src/linux e creando dunque una nuova immagine?? Sto provando a riconfigurare il Kernel e appena esco dal menù xconfig c'è questo messaggio di errore: ERROR -

Re: [newbie-it] Usb storage

2003-01-02 Thread Giovanni Coan
Scusate,ho lo stesso problema con uba piccola macchina fotografica da bambino... non riesco a vederla perchè quando monto /dev/sda1 mi dice che lo special device /dev/sda1 doesn't exist. Ho mdk 9.0 su di un portatile, e non ho dispositivi scsi...come fare? Grazie e buon anno a tutti! =

Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Lindsay
snip Am running LM8.1 and have tried to get KwikDisk to run. All that happens is that it tries to launch and appears to fail. snip Mea Culpa - I didn't have a System Tray on the Panel so couldn't see the KD icons - there were 9! The question above still stands. Rob Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 12:05 am, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:30:02 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Smiley: Don't even think about resizing your win2k partition with diskdrake. It can mess up your win2k. I didn't :) I bought PM6, which is already unsupported by

Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:12, Robin Turner wrote: Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a

Re: SV: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 20:08, Anders Lind wrote: 1. Make a bootable floppy (You will need 'fdisk' in there.) 2. Boot from that floppy, and at prompt, type: 'fdisk /mbr' (without quottes) This will remove lilo. 3. Then, run 'fdisk' and just delete linux partitions. It might work if fdisk finds

[newbie] Sound Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Marc Oestreicher
I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not even startup sounds for KDE Does anyone have

[newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code

2003-01-02 Thread Graham Pohle
I've been downloading tar.gz files from the net, but for the life of me I can't get them to work.I've run the tar -x command but it doesn't work, and I've tried quite a few others, but they don't work. It's not just the tar.gz files either, I'm having trouble running any program. My name is graham

Re: [newbie] Sound Problem

2003-01-02 Thread Vahur Lokk
Ühel kenal päeval (neljapäev, 2. jaanuar 2003 14:21) kirjutasid sa: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no

Re: [newbie] Installing Java plugin for Mozilla

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 17:42, Mark Weaver wrote: Hi there, I wish I had a dollar, (accounting for the current rate of inflation), for every time I've seen this need addressed in these lists. Doesn't anyone read the archives any more? ;) with this thought in mind I've

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Smiley wrote: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... I know diskdrake can't do that... So, any suggestion

Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?

2003-01-02 Thread mycal62
Hi , While this is good advise and works , I too would like to know where the info is actually stored so I can if I choose manually remove redundant entries that I have. Specificly , I have done this proceedure to remove redundant error messages coming from Firestarter, however they continue

Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions

2003-01-02 Thread Anthony Abby
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 19:08, Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till now, i'm using a small fat partition

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 09:15, Tom Brinkman wrote: Because if you change to 'vga=normal' you're still usin fb (frame buffer). Just remove the vga= line and you should get 'plain text'. BTW, if you want to keep the fb =788 is 800x600, =791 is 1024x 768. I don't recall what the number

Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?

2003-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
Many applications save information in hidden files or folders in your ~ (home) directory. KDE applications will generally put their files in ~/.kde/share/config/ To view hidden files in konqueror just select ViewShowHidden ~/.kde/Autostart contains scripts and applications to be run when

[newbie] xcdroast-0.98alpha11 on LM8.1

2003-01-02 Thread Rob Lindsay
I would like to update the xcdroast frontend from xcdroast-0.98alpha9 to alpha11 so that I can write multisession CDs. Believe that I need cdrtools-2.0 for the application to work. Is there anything else I need to update. How do I go about the change? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Which file records info about previous sessions?

2003-01-02 Thread mycal62
Thanks Derek, however it's still doesn't answer the question. I've looked around there too and know it's not there. thanks for trying though. Derek Jennings wrote: Many applications save information in hidden files or folders in your ~ (home) directory. KDE applications will generally put

Re: [newbie] DVD region killer

2003-01-02 Thread Sasongko Pribadi Djoko
Dear Stephen, Friends, I'm sorry for my late reply. I did download the tar file (in www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz) and extract the files. Thank you in advance, PDS *Happy New Year 2003* From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sasongko

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Acronis It comes with the power pack 9.0 El Mié 01 Ene 2003 23:38, Smiley escribió: Hi, I know this topic isn't exactly new :) but I need help in order to allow a friend of mine to get rid of W2000 :-D What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of course you convert to decimal. Hex adjusted Kernel

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code

2003-01-02 Thread Gavin Rollins
Graham, I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will correct me!!) after you transfered the files they should make

Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions

2003-01-02 Thread Anthony Abby
Tis a very, very bad idea to write to your NTFS partition from Linux. It WILL hose your NTFS system. So, if you enable RW access to your Win2K partition be prepared to reload your system. NTFS access from Linux should me RO (read only). I've done it for a very long time without any

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing running Programs/Scripts/Code

2003-01-02 Thread David Williams
On Thursday 02 January 2003 11:30 am, Gavin Rollins wrote: Graham, I had the same problem.. but via this group, I learned to download these files into my tmp file first, open them with Ark, transfer ALL the files to /usr/local or /usr/local/bin... not sure which one. (I'm sure someone will

Re: [newbie] Writing on NTFS partitions

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 13:12, Robin Turner wrote: Smiley wrote: On Wed, 1 Jan 2003 23:18:50 - Aurélio Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't if anyone posted this question before: Is there anyway that i can put my linux box to write on my win2k (NTFS) partitions? Till

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 2:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday January 1 2003 01:25 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Looking again at what you wrote originally, I get the same output as you for the command ll /usr/bin/java Including rwx permissions for users (lrwxrwxrwx) ? . Yes -

Re: [newbie] Mozilla/Java -halfway there

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 2:47 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: I've got both Mozilla and Galeon listing Java plugins, now. The rpm had put the .so file into Netscape plugins, so I copied it into the Mozilla plugin directory and sure enough it's recognised. However - Amazon.co.uk's site still has no

Re: [newbie] IRQ conflict help

2003-01-02 Thread et
you might consider if there is a place in the BIOS to move the onboard sound . My cat /proc/interrupts lists a few sharing IRQs and so far, while I cna say I can create plenty of problems, I ain't chased any down to these particulre sharings (wintv and Nvidia gf4 ti4200 on 10;, usb-uhci,

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 2 2003 11:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at

RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse

2003-01-02 Thread Ross Bleakney
To answer your question, the installer didn't recognize the mouse throught the KVM switch. Do you know how to drive the Mandrake Control Center when the mouse doesn't work? I tried tabbing within the fields but this doesn't seem to work. I can keep switching the plugs, but I was hoping to try

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 6:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday January 2 2003 11:25 am, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the

[newbie] 9.0 scanner problem

2003-01-02 Thread et
I half way remember a thing about a typo that prevented scanners using an snapscan interface from working. the scanner I need to get running again is an Acer Prisa 340U (usb) after doing a fresh install of 9.0 since I had been running with the download version and now loaded up the Powerpack

RE: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Check out http://www.cinlug.org/forums/web_board/1014471387/index_html. Looks like some ppl are able to get it working with either of two workarounds. Both involved re-initializing the mouse by going to text and back. One was restarting x, which doesn't sound like it would help you, but the other

Re: [newbie] System Integrity

2003-01-02 Thread Robin Turner
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: Not to worry, it will always have some of that, but it does not ever get very large. Linux takes care of itself. HTH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Harrison Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 9:52 PM To:

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose of linux installs, don't

[newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
I've run Redhat up till now, and at a coworker's urging, decided to give Mandrake 9 a try. I have pretty old equipment at home, including a 2x CD-ROM, so the install took quite awhile (I recently purchased a higher-speed rewriteable off eBay - hasn't arrived yet.) Turns out this old CD-ROM

RE: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread A. Contreras
My technique of choice is: download the HDD manuf low level format utility format the MBR and rest of the drive while at it, perform a full check format in DOS (a few Linux installs have failed with a virgin drive) reinstall OS of choice A. Contreras My CR website: http://www.elnonio.dns04.com

Re: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread mycal62
Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask though, were the cd's given you copies of downloaded iso's? or original cd's ? copies can often be defective or at least less than perfect, and RH disks that are not perfect can also

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread rluchor
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 12:25, Anne Wilson wrote: I suspect the problem is with your Mozilla install. Tho I have no idea what is maybe wrong (and I'm now usin the newer 9.1 cooker version 1.3-0.alpha.1mdk). It's the standard install from 9.0's discs. I don't feel confident at using

[newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread mike
I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa' Mandrake 8.2 Kernel-2.4.18-8.1mdk Linux user #298896 Thu Jan 2 15:45:41 EST 2003 3:45pm

Re: [newbie] Sound Problem

2003-01-02 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:21 am, you wrote: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [ AC97 Audio Controler] but I am getting no sound at all not

Re: [newbie] Java

2003-01-02 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:26 am, you wrote: Erylon - the rpm that Tom recommended has screwed up my system as regards java. I think the links and path are wrong. Can you please list the files that I may need to check/edit? Thanks Anne I've never used that rpm, so I defer to Tom on

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Es Dijous 02 Gener 2003 21:45, en mike va escriure: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? AFAIK both can run the apps made for the other (their

Re: [newbie] script help

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
MG wrote: Hey Mark, I was just using ./HW as in: [mike@avatar mike]$ ./HW What I gathered was if the script was in a directory, that was in my PATH, I could just use the name of the script instead of the whole path. I looked in my /home/mike/.bash_profile file and it said: [mike@avatar mike]$

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but seriously, fluxbox utilizes both when it comes to running and

Re: [newbie] Sound Problem

2003-01-02 Thread et
On Thursday 02 January 2003 03:51 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:21 am, you wrote: I have 9.0 installed as a dual boot installation with windoze 98. The sound is working ok in windoze but I sant get a thing from it in ML9.0 Hard Drake is deticting a VT8233 [

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread mike
On Thursday 02 January 2003 04:18 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Smiley
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 22:18:34 +0100 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Same reply as in Gnome-KDE: no better, no worse, they're just *different* :-) Smiley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Java - lost it

2003-01-02 Thread erylon hines
On Thursday 02 January 2003 12:44 pm, you wrote: My installation is also from the discs and uninstalling and re-installing didn't work for me. Mozilla and Galeon crash when encountering applets; Konqueror doesn't crash, but the applet freezes when it's 29% loaded; Netscape still refuses to

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Smiley
On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 16:35:28 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think I was more interested in the cross compatibility of Gnome and KDE programs than a personal opinion of which one is better.I know I get much better printing performance with GEdit than with any standard KDE editors

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome? I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE

RE: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread A. Contreras
Aha! same thing happened on my linux 9.0 install marathon. A piece of advice (which I knew before I started but somehow ignored) is to only select the strict minimum number of packages during an install. Makes sense, everything else can pretty much be installed after you have set up a functional

Re: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go through an install as you did. two things come to mind to ask

[newbie] Konqueror and javascripts

2003-01-02 Thread Kristjan
Hi I might be stupid But I don't get the javascripts run in Konqueror, they do in Mozilla I have selected the java and javascript in Konqueror browser settings. Also I jave JRE installed. Any hints maybe thanks Kristjan Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Java

2003-01-02 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 8:50 pm, erylon hines wrote: On Thursday 02 January 2003 05:26 am, you wrote: Erylon - the rpm that Tom recommended has screwed up my system as regards java. I think the links and path are wrong. Can you please list the files that I may need to check/edit?

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux W2000 PM6 is no good for partitioning where the windblows made partitions will be remade for the purpose

Re: [newbie] Unable to surf and do e-mail

2003-01-02 Thread Graham
Myers, Dennis R NWO wrote: You may have to go in and disable smoothwall to begin with. I found that on some installs it starts up automatically and unless you use MCC (Mandrake Control Center) and do a run through of the configuration, you don't even have to change anything, just run through

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 11:25, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday January 2 2003 09:20 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: The file is /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt. In order to get the video mode number of the Linux kernel, you take the hexadecimal VESA mode number, then add 0x200. Then of

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday January 2 2003 03:18 pm, Ralph Slooten wrote: I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) Star

Re: [newbie] KVM Switch and Mouse

2003-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 01:46 pm, Ross Bleakney wrote: I recently attached a KVM switch between my Linux box and Windows box. The monitor switches just fine. However, the mouse doesn't work. I looked on the XFree-Newbie archives, and is common for people to have trouble with their mice

Re: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 02 Jan 2003 10:06 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: - Original Message - From: mycal62 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 3:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install Thanks for the reply. Hi , First , it can be quite frustrating to go

[newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Mitchell
I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I lose my 2000 install I will be screwed. - Mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] uninstalling Mandrake

2003-01-02 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:56 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Steve Mendizabal wrote: Anyone know where I can find the docs to uninstall Mandrake as well as lilo? TIA Steve-O Good God man! thats blasphemy! REPENT!!! Apart from just wiping out the partition there isn't any more to it

[newbie] how do I sync my Handspring Treo 180 USB ?

2003-01-02 Thread ThinKer
Hello, My mobile phone/personal organizer is a phone/PDA hybrid Handspring Treo 180 (Palm OS 3.5H) with USB cradle. I would like to be able to sync it on my Mandrake 9.0 box with some equivalent software to the Palm Desktop or even better with Evolution. Of course Handspring's website was no

Re: [newbie] Bootsplash in 9.0

2003-01-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:26, Tom Brinkman wrote: Yes, at least my GeF2 does support fb, most all cards do, but there's some, mostly ready made non standard ones that don't. So Ron, just change to vga=0x311, you'll eliminate the bootsplash an get bigger text ; 'Course thru all this

RE: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
Straight, hot coffee and a command line. ~Brandon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Pilagá Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome? El Jue 02 Ene 2003 21:49, Todd

RE: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread A. Contreras
I'm curious (and please, if this is covered in a FAQ, point me in the right direction). Say you have a machine with 9.0 installed, and on your network you have another machine that you can't get to install it and you suspect the CDROM is to blame. Short of taking a CDROM from one into the other,

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

2003-01-02 Thread Keith
Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have a machine running windows 2000 server and Mandrake 8.0 I want to upgrade to Mandrake 9. Is there anything I should beware of before upgrading a dual boot machine. If I

Re: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Mitchell
Problem is I have over 50 gigs of MP3's and movies on the Windows partition that I cant afford to lose and I have no way of backing up that much data - Mark Keith wrote: Do not mess around...BACK UP important files/folders On Thursday 02 January 2003 08:49 pm, Mark Mitchell wrote:

Re: [newbie] Lilo graphical

2003-01-02 Thread Russ
HI Anne, Thank you for responding to this post. Sorry for the delay in responding. It sort of slipped through the cracks (long story, I won't bore you with the facts). Anyway, I checked that file and it did say 5 on that line. I did know about the problem with exiting without saving so that

[newbie] Msec security configuration

2003-01-02 Thread mike
Hello I want to customize my msec level 3 security settings.Specifically I want to enable PROMISC_CHECK=yes in /etc/security/msec/security.conf.How do I make these changes take hold after editing the file?Do I need to use mseclib? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Michael Shinobi a.k.a. 'alfalfa'

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 16:18, Ralph Slooten wrote: I would just like to add off before this turns into a 500 e-mail war here, but asking users their opinions between the 2 is like asking which is better: Democrat or Republican, Christian or Moslem, Star Wars or Star Trek ;-) KDE has a

Re: [newbie] Linux W2000

2003-01-02 Thread Warren Post
El mié, 01-01-2003 a las 16:38, Smiley escribió: What I need is to know how he can resize (avoiding reinstallation) of W2000 without losing any datas... FAT32 or NTFS? If the latter, I can't help you. But if the Win2K partition is FAT32, then try parted, available at Freshmeat or at:

[newbie] Font problem in Kword

2003-01-02 Thread Greg
I am running Mandrake 9.0 with Koffice 1.2.1. I imported MS fonts from windows partition. When I try to print using any of those fonts it prints incorrectly, even though it shows on screen correctly. When I use Open office the fonts view and print correctly. How can I get Kword to print

Re: [newbie] Msec security configuration

2003-01-02 Thread Steve Jeppesen
hehe, I was just attempting to do something like this, but from what I was reading tonight, you need to create /etc/security/msec/level.local which would contain PROMISC_CHECK=yes then restart msec by typing msec in a terminal I may be wrong in that level.local might be for a higher security

[newbie] ML 9.0 update mirrors don't work

2003-01-02 Thread Richard Babcock
Greetings, I am trying to run Mandrake Update in ML 9.0 and get the dialog box (in Gnome) which asks if I am connected to the Internet and would like to select a mirror. I am and I would so I click ok. The list of mirrors appears without a problem but none of them can be added successfully. I have

[newbie] IceWM themes don't stay

2003-01-02 Thread Richard Babcock
Greetings, I have recently tried IceWM and I like the clean interface. I also like the themes that installed with it but when I logout the theme I have chosen is lost and IceWM returns to it's default. Is this normal behavior? Also, is there a way to change just the wallpaper without changing to a

Re: [newbie] Which is better:KDE or Gnome?

2003-01-02 Thread Mark Weaver
Ralph Slooten wrote: On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:45:50 -0500 mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering what people think is the preferable window manager?I know some Gnome programs run under KDE.Do KDE programs run under Gnome? Fluxbox ;-) Hehe, no but seriously, fluxbox utilizes both when

RE: [newbie] Dual Boot Upgrade

2003-01-02 Thread Brandon Vanderberg
I haven't had any troublesinstalling Mandrake on a disk with an existingWindows 2000 NTFS partition. It wasvery clean.Obviously, you want to take your time and be very careful. On a side note, Iwould never have tried it even once without my important data backed up. I'dseriously think

Re: [newbie] IceWM themes don't stay

2003-01-02 Thread Jan Wilson
* Richard Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030102 23:43]: I have recently tried IceWM and I like the clean interface. I also like the themes that installed with it but when I logout the theme I have chosen is lost and IceWM returns to it's default. Is this normal behavior? Also, is there a way to

Re: [newbie] Failed install

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Failed install I just think, as I stated in my original note, that the install process is poorly designed. The failures I encountered were

Re: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] help needed for triple-booting Vahur Lokk wrote: OK, after many adventures I finally managed to install working

[newbie] WINE Questions

2003-01-02 Thread Russ
HI All, I have MD9 up and running. Is WINE installed by default? How can I tell if it is installed on this machine? Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Guest OS in vmware

2003-01-02 Thread Guy Rouillier
vmdk files are virtual disk files. You must have them. You'll need one for each guest OS. Are you attempting to use your existing Win2K inside a virtual machine, or have you installed a new instance of Win2k inside a new virtual machine? The VMWare site has specific instructions on how to

RE: [newbie] WINE Questions

2003-01-02 Thread Franki
rpm -qa |grep wine in a console will tell you if its installed.. but its easier to just use rpmdrake if you are in the GUI.. or you can open a console terminal.. and enter: urpmi wine rgds Franki -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Russ

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