Re: [newbie-it] Utilizzo della RAM

2003-06-22 Thread Pollo
Il sab, 2003-06-21 alle 16:16, Pollo ha scritto: Ho un pc con pentium III 500MHz e 450MB di RAM. Appena avvio linux (mandrake 9.1) l'uso della RAM è già di 300MB circa. E' vero che ho qualche server attivo in ascolto (ssh, cups) ma come si spiega l'utilizzo di tutta questa RAM. Mi hanno detto

Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp

2003-06-22 Thread syd
* Arwan wrote: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Lo potrai fare con un MTA non ridotto come ssmtp. Ti diro', non ora perche' sto facendo ancora alcune altre prove, come farlo con

[newbie-it] 2 harddisk 2 linux 2 orari

2003-06-22 Thread Mirko
cari tutti devo segnalarvi una situazione bizzarra che si verifica sul mio sistema. ho 2 hard disk e per provare la nuova mdk 9.1 ho deciso di usare il vecchio hard disk (secondary master) . una volta installato linux con lilo su floppy ho notato che ogni volta che cambio da mdk 9 a mdk 9.1

[newbie-it] Ma perche' la domenica mi fanno inca22are?

2003-06-22 Thread Arwan
Alle Sunday 22 June 2003 08:30, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), syd ha scritto: * Arwan wrote: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa,

Re: [newbie-it] tuxrace e driver nvidia

2003-06-22 Thread Giorgio Griffon
Alle 14:19, giovedì 19 giugno 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Ho un piccolo problema con tuxrace. Nulla di grave, ma i nipotini vogliono giocarci :-) Io ho una scheda geforge2-mmx che con i driver Nvidia non ha mai dato alcun problema. Da quando ho installato la 9.1 e, contemporaneamente, la

[newbie-it] Disinstallare dai sorgenti o aggiornare

2003-06-22 Thread AF
Salve. Nella mia breve esperienza su linux ho già avuto modo di installare parecchi programmi dai sorgenti. Mi chiedo però come fare a disinstallarli in modo completo. Ho letto che se il makefile lo prevede basta fare un 'make uninstall', ma credo che la casistica sia più vasta (in un caso ho

Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp

2003-06-22 Thread Giuseppe Ferruzzi
* Arwan ha scritto: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta devo essere connessa, dunque chiedo lumi per il come si fa offline. Quale è la ragione per cui necessiti di una queue ? Sistemato questo ,direi che il prossimo passo e' aggiustare il send-hook in

Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp

2003-06-22 Thread Arwan
Alle Monday 23 June 2003 00:20, a proposito di Re: [newbie-it] buone nuove dettagli non proprio trascurabili - era: ssmtp (e chissa' a cosa pensava veramente), Giuseppe Ferruzzi ha scritto: * Arwan ha scritto: Funzia tutto, filtri, scaricamento, lettura, invio, pero' per l'invio posta

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-22 Thread Douglas Bainbridge
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:55, RichardA wrote: On 21 Jun 2003 10:21:39 +0100, Douglas Bainbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 14:13, RichardA wrote: snip Sounds very useful, but I don't see how to do this in 1.3.3. Could you give me an idiot's guide? TIA

Re: [newbie] Posting to TWiki

2003-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 12:22 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi Anne, Reference Muti-boot posting to TWiki. I am still new in webpages - have not done it . Please feel free to make suggestions. This will be a learning curve for me. I did have a look at

[newbie] chinese fonts

2003-06-22 Thread Giulio F.
Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are unsupported by this program. When I try to run the

Re: [newbie] Failed Compilation of kdelibs-3.1-58mdk.src.rpm

2003-06-22 Thread Huw Blackwell
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 05:12, Huw Blackwell wrote: Okay guys, A bit stumped by this one, I am new to linux and learning quickly (hence jumping in @ the deep end by optimizing mandrake for my computer...) Not Sure if this should go on another mailing list (please advise if you have one to

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-22 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 08:07, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 21:42, ed tharp wrote: I have a story about that. As a teenager, (having spent most my life in the Fla.Keys) I, and most all my friends were excellent swimmers, and water polo was the game most often played. We also

Re: [OT] Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-22 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 17:04, Michael Scottaline wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 16:28:50 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:38:06 -0600 FemmeFatale [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Joes makes me thinks Gun nut. you misunderstand, I have a certain sympathy

Re: [newbie] hard drive partition sizes

2003-06-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday June 21 2003 06:16 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: I've used a separate /boot since civileme recommended doin so quite a while ago if your other partitions are journalized fs's. He said to use ext2 or ext3 for /boot, specially with XFS or ReisersFS / and other partitions. So I do,

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread Johan Scheepers
hi, I run XP and Mandrake 9 on same drive - LILO my bootloader. On installing Mandrake it picked up XP and configured it LILO was written to MBR. What I found was that Mandrake and LILO do a better job on discovering and config of additional OS's than Redhat. Now when I boot GUI come up - pick

Re: [newbie] re re mnt/winc

2003-06-22 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi, OK lets usume you use mandrake 9.1 (older versions differ in some respects) When booting it goes to the user selected on install. On KDE. Right click on mouse - select logout. On GNOME select start logout. Now it goes to where different user may logon This if you installed more than one user

[newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Johan Scheepers
Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue. Now should every one who see a question/s should reply sorry

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 3:21 pm, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue.

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had some questions - no response. Now I have pondered on this issue.

Re: [newbie] chinese fonts

2003-06-22 Thread Robin Turner
Giulio F. wrote: Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are unsupported by this program.

[newbie] Powerfan connection?

2003-06-22 Thread Dale Huckeby
This isn't strictly a Mandrake question, but I hope someone here can help me. I'm building a computer for my mother using an Abit NF7-M motherboard. In the manual it says, Attach the connector from the power fan to PWRFAN1 header... The PWRFAN1 header has three prongs. Two of the connectors

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
server. I suggest - join more user groups and post again. If you don't get a response in one place by all means go to another and post your question. How ever you should avoid cross posting (i.e. posting the same question on several forums all at once). Regards Johan Regards John

[newbie] kde runs slow while offline ?

2003-06-22 Thread LtCdData
hi after several installs of mdk9.1 all because of kde going all slow eg open /home with konq with kfmclient openProfile filemanagement command konqueror can take over a minute to open and sometimes not open at all. some other apps are the same but not all; however ive noticed while i am online

[newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Tux pics...

2003-06-22 Thread ed tharp
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:07, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many

Re: [newbie] chinese fonts

2003-06-22 Thread Rob Lindsay
On Sunday 22 Jun 2003 3:38 pm, Giulio F. wrote: Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 9.1. I have chosen the support for some languages that I need, particulary chinese. My problem is the I can't input chinese character. There is a program xcin but it does't work because the font zh_CN.UTF-8 are

Re: [newbie] Tux pics...

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:37 am, ed tharp wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 00:07, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:20 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if

[newbie] Am I doing this right yet?

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
Still trying to get K-mail configured right Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread Jason Guidry
Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there what do you need from urpmi that rpmdrake doesn't provide? also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to spread it out amoung 3 or four servers? urpmi will just download

[newbie] Gimp fonts

2003-06-22 Thread Jason Guidry
I have a whole bunch of fonts installed that other programs see but that the Gimp does not. when I use the text tool in the gimp, the fonts are listed, but when they're selected it sez they're not available. thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi John. When I logged on this morning after checking my email I checked the status of my CDRW drive. To my dismay I discovered that I no longer have a working CDRW, either as supermount or as SCSI. It no longer appears on my hardware list at all and is completely unavailable. You asked

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Björn Olsson
On 22 Jun 2003 10:58:18 -0400 Ed Tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: Hi A while back a member complained about no response to questions. I take it none had a something to say. I do understand his frustration ( being new to this)- I also had

[newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
I installed a newer version of roxfiler that was not an rpm. How do i make the rpm utils see that as my most current version? When i try to install some other rm from rox, it keeps wanting to install rox-filer 1.3.7, since according to it i have none installed... thanks, eric Want to buy

Re: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)

2003-06-22 Thread stormjumper
i suspect checkinstall may be what you're looking for although having not used it personally, i can only point you to it and hope it helps http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/ also, if you've added your contrib sources properly, # urpmi checkinstall should get your the rpm for

Re: [newbie] urpmi

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
There's a twiki on it at: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi#Using_urpmi On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:25 pm, Aron Smith wrote: Hey am trying to RTFM on urmpi not finding a lot of infromation out there also is it better to download from one mirror in this case UC Santa Cruz or to

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
On 22 Jun 2003 11:41:04 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John. When I logged on this morning after checking my email I checked the status of my CDRW drive. To my dismay I discovered that I no longer have a working CDRW, either as supermount or as SCSI. It no longer

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
One of the things I often do is try to get in on discussions where no one has responded, or no solution has been found. That is, if I can shed light on the problem. I have had my questions forgotten on this list, and many others, and I try not to let that happen to anyone else. A question

Re: [newbie] RPM: How to register a compiled prog (rox)

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
i suspect checkinstall may be what you're looking for Yep! Derek has a great explanation: http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/modules.php?name=Sectionsop=viewarticleartid=10 I had downloaded a precompiled version of rox-filer, and checkinstall correctly understood the install script, etc.

[newbie] test

2003-06-22 Thread Drew Martin
test -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi John, The hardware list I was referring to is the one in the Mandrake Control Center. I'm running 8.2. Part of the reason for wanting to get my CDRW working is so that I can backup many files before upgrading to 9.1. Mount -a at this point simply takes me back to a command line cursor. I

[newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread Wade Waldron
I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just linux. The system loads and takes me to a text based

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:21:09 +0200 Johan Scheepers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: As it is if I skip a day or two I found up 785 messages waiting on server. This is why sometimes, to be frank, they just get missed in the sheer number of posts. I have many times said oh, I know the answer to that

Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 22 June 2003 02:27 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: I reinstalled Mandrake 9.1 in order to try to solve my login problems. I am booting from a floppy. When I boot, it gives me options of whether to load linux-secure, linux, failsafe, or windows. I have tried selecting both secure and just

Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-22 Thread SethiPradeep
Hi, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 16 June 2003 11:00 pm, Pradeep Sethi wrote: Hi, I am still not able to play DVDs. I can play audio CDs / VCDs in that drive, work fine. but get error, while playing DVD. when I try to play DVD through mplayer GUI, click on open Disc, it

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-22 Thread Miark
On Saturday 21 June 2003 06:49 pm, JoeHill graced me with: http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-1018669.html It's official, Sun is right in there with MS and SCO. SCO and M$ want Linux to die. Sun just wants to take advantage of the FUD to steal some business from IBM. There's a significant

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-22 Thread Miark
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:17:46 -0400 MWafkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we all do..this is quickly becoming less than an amusement and more creepy. Oh, I dunno--nothing has really changed in the last week. Since the suit was announced, we've had minor leaks about the validity of the

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread Chris
I see nothing wrong, BTW, with re-posting after a reasonable amount of time, someone mentioned 3 days, I think that's a little bit too much to ask. There's nothing wrong with making a second request within say 48 hours, esp if it's a bigger system prob. One thing with web forums, they

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
On 22 Jun 2003 14:03:26 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, The hardware list I was referring to is the one in the Mandrake Control Center. I'm running 8.2. Part of the reason for wanting to get my CDRW working is so that I can backup many files before upgrading to

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:07 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 01:44 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip I'll send the pics to you offlist and everything will become clear as mud. :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Install problems, OT Speaking of cable select on HDDs

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:17 PM 6/21/2003 -0700, you wrote: CableSelect is a function of the controller, not the hd. Very few controllers use the CS function (I've never owned one, nor even seen one, so I can only take it on face value that they exist). e so wtf.. my manual says you can use it..but it didn't

[newbie] Another Help site

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
Hey Gang Don't Know if you know this link it's interesting http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/howtos.html#network Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access linux before windows to give me the dual boot

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:10 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: You're best bet, as long as you don't need to do a lot of disk to disk copying, is to put your optical drives on a seperate channel from your hard drives. This is especially true of CDRW drives, where you want to maximize the data throughput from your hard

Re: [newbie] Powerfan connection?

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:02 AM 6/22/2003 -0500, you wrote: This isn't strictly a Mandrake question, but I hope someone here can help me. I'm building a computer for my mother using an Abit NF7-M motherboard. In the manual it says, Attach the connector from the power fan to PWRFAN1 header... The PWRFAN1 header

Re: [newbie] Tux pics...

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 11:20 PM 6/21/2003 -0400, you wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have these. One is from Penguin Computing (my

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 10:58 AM 6/22/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 10:21, Johan Scheepers wrote: snip or just post again, adding note; no help in three days to the subject line. it may well be that in with the other mail, your question was just missed, or no-one knew the answer. Asking again, and

Re: [newbie] No response on questions

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 06:48 PM 6/22/2003 +, you wrote: snips yanks Bjorn outta his closet! NO CLOSSETING ALLOWED! Once you're OUT you're OUT! Hi A few days ago I posted a question about running Enemy Territory as a regular user, but I haven't got any answer thus far. No offence taken, of course; some

Re: [newbie] test

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:41:52 +0100 Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: test sorry, it didn't work :) -jmd -- Sun Jun 22 16:53:09 UTC 2003 - They told me to install Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux. Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
If you do alot of copying from hard drive to HDD or cd to cd or cd to hdd: put your 100 gigger separate on the primary IDE channel. Put your cd burner on the 2nd IDE channel for faster computer speeds copying from HDD to CDRom. Also stick your other HDD on this channel as its likely you

[newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-22 Thread Chris
I've just about got my system backup again so thought I'd enjoy some cd's. Loaded up xmms and here are the problems. 1. Looking back at the archives I found Ann's message about loading the cdread plugin. Found it at rpmfind although it was the cooker version, I downloaded and installed.

Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread Wade Waldron
Okay, when my system hangs I am able to press Alt Ctrl F1 to go back to the shell. From here if I push the Windows key on my keyboard I get a screen which seems to be logging current activity (does this make sense). It lists a series of errors. Unfortunately the errors go by so quickly that

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread Langsley T Russell
OK John, I copied the new fstab file you provided to the etc directory. On boot up I now get two FAILED lines. The first one reads: Supermount error (device 0/12) supermount_read_sup er:no dev: file system option The second reads: Mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock or none, or

Re: [newbie] Sun let's the cat out of the bag

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:03 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:17:46 -0400 MWafkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we all do..this is quickly becoming less than an amusement and more creepy. Oh, I dunno--nothing has really changed in the last week. Since the suit was announced,

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so clearly. I was recently attempting to describe snorkeling around Turkey Point to some people - strange, that. --

[newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am puzzled about what

Re: [newbie] Tux pics...

2003-06-22 Thread C. Tresenriter
On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 23:20:54 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In another thread (I think it was Femme!) posted some Tux gaming pics 'n stuff. I found a couple I had lying around the old HD, if anyone wants me to send them offlist. Of course, many of you probably already have

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 22 June 2003 06:24 pm, Chris wrote: I've just about got my system backup again so thought I'd enjoy some cd's. Loaded up xmms and here are the problems. 1. Looking back at the archives I found Ann's message about loading the cdread plugin. Found it at rpmfind although it was the

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there and both cdrw and cdrom work. I am

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:04 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-22 Thread Chris
On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas where I need to go from here? Thanks Chris

Re: [newbie] Boot error message

2003-06-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 09:04, Dennis Myers wrote: I have googled and archived the www and not found a decent answer to the message I get on boot since I changed out my CDROM. Message is ; A: drive error F1 to continue . I hit F1 and the system boots up and both hda and hdc are there

[newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails' user settings are stored so I can back them up? I

Re: [newbie] Help with rpmdrake not able to read source cds

2003-06-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:42, Derek Jennings wrote: Have you been doing your security updates? There is an updated urpmi available which I think addresses this sort if issue. Assuming you have an update source defined then urpmi urpmi (in a root terminal) did that got the update.. If

Re: [newbie] System Still Hangs

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
I would first look at /var/log/messages You might see the same messages in there. If you use less /var/log/messages (instead of more) you can hit the end key to get to the end of them. eric On Sunday 22 June 2003 03:31 pm, Wade Waldron wrote: Okay, when my system hangs I am able to press

[newbie] slypheed install: where to get it?

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
I have to apologize: i swear i saved this info, but can''t find it here or in the archves: I remember a little while ago, there was a sylpheed flurry about doing something special to install it (ie not just using the standard mandrake rpm). Am i just smokin it? eric Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread stephlub
Le Lundi 23 Juin 2003 01:56, Ronald J. Hall a écrit : Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails'

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
it's buried in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc On Sunday 22 June 2003 04:56 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is

Re: [newbie] XMMS and cdread plugin

2003-06-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 22 June 2003 07:40 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 22 June 2003 01:27 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: 2. I can't even bring up a list of the .wav files on my cd with xmms although .mp3s show up fine after I mount the drive. WAV files play fine with KsCD player though. Any ideas

Re: [newbie] SCSI Em- Again

2003-06-22 Thread John Drouhard
On 22 Jun 2003 17:54:27 -0500 Langsley T Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK John, I copied the new fstab file you provided to the etc directory. On boot up I now get two FAILED lines. The first one reads: Supermount error (device 0/12) supermount_read_sup er:no dev: file system option

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 22 June 2003 20:56, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Recently, since installing 9.1, I've had quite a few Kmail crashes. When it does, I don't lose any mail, sent, trash or otherwise, but I do lose all my config settings. Even the address book is okay. So - can someone tell me where kmails'

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread Graham Banks
FemmeFatale wrote: snip Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. so for me: Primary HDD DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back forth tween those... so no need to split them up) Secondary CD R/W HDD are on IDE2 (I DO Copy from HDD 1

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 22 June 2003 09:08 pm, eric huff wrote: it's buried in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc Thats it, thanks! -- /\

Re: [newbie] Kmail settings.

2003-06-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 22 June 2003 08:58 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail HTH Damian Thanks Damian! -- /\

[newbie] Argh! Apologies... :-(

2003-06-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
I think I accidentally sent some attachments to the list again. I'm sorry. (I know, someday I'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes!!!) :-( --

[newbie] slypheed installed

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
Ok, installed. I like the speed, etc, but it seems a little klunky for reading mail. I figured out that hitting enter scrolls the mail down so you can read lower, but if you need to go back up, the only way i can see to do it is to use the mouse. Is this right? Is there any way to make page

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 08:00 PM 6/22/2003 -0700, you wrote: Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. THis make more sense? Sorry about last post...it was sorta muddled. - Yeah, thanks. So, this would seem that cd copying would be better done

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread FemmeFatale
At 01:57 PM 6/23/2003 +1000, you wrote: FemmeFatale wrote: snip Copying from any medium to another is faster if they are on different busses.. or IDE connectors. so for me: Primary HDD DVD ROM are on IDE1 ( i don't copy back forth tween those... so no need to split them up) Secondary CD R/W

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 16:01, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 23:44, ed tharp wrote: yep, channel #2 bridge, right near Holiday Isle. Funny it's been literally 20 years since being down that way and I still remember it so clearly. I was recently attempting to describe snorkeling

Re: [newbie] Install problems

2003-06-22 Thread Ian Trickett
If the master and slave jumpers are set correctly, position on the cable is immaterial. For cable select setting, end connector is master, middle connector is slave. Maxtor drives (and all Dell computers) now come set as cable select by default. Ian On June 21, 2003 11:19 am, Andy Davidson

Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-22 Thread Royke K
The problem maybe in your DVD drive , the error message complain about DVD encription libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. What is the DVD region code you want to play, for Mplayer I think should play all kind of region with no problem. Check your DVD drive, because if you use

Re: [newbie] Told ya, don't trust IBM

2003-06-22 Thread Ian Trickett
I very much doubt it http://www.browning.co.uk/ Ian On June 21, 2003 07:14 am, RichardA wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:22:43 -0400, JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 21:21:34 -0400 Thomas Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: but I get concerned that any time the

Re: [newbie] Installing new hard drive...how?

2003-06-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 23 June 2003 12:55 am, FemmeFatale wrote: Up to a PIII Processor this is relevant. This is no longer the case with improved drives the technology that goes into them these days. Very few mobos these days will suffer like that anymore. - FemmeFatale, aka The Skirt

Re: [newbie] DVD still not working (Mandrake 9.1)

2003-06-22 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 22 June 2003 12:54 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Output : - Playing /dev/dvd libdvdread: Using libdvdcss version 1.2.6 for DVD access libdvdread: Could not open device with libdvdcss. libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading Couldn't open DVD device:

Re: [newbie] slypheed installed

2003-06-22 Thread eric huff
Not a big deal, but i found that when i haven't configured the receiving pop3 settings properly, claws crashes. Oddly, it crashed on one of my account and not the other (both had the wrong user name typed in. This mostly just means i should go to bed before i goof and do something worse...)