Re: [newbie-it] Perdita Dati parte seconda

2003-10-22 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 20:32, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Nicola Degl'Innocenti ha scritto: Qualcuno ha qualche suggerimento? Sarebbe già utile un qualche script che dato il nome del file mi dica il pacchetto nel quale è contenuto. Considerate che il file contenente questa lista di file scomparsi pesa

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 00:28, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:18, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, mediatv ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :( : In tutta onestà non condanno Libero. Penso che

Re: [newbie-it] 9.2: dove sono i sorgenti?

2003-10-22 Thread Andrea Celli
Alle 22:03, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Antonluigi ha scritto: Ciao, .. E poi perché gli rpm dei driver Nvidia sono disponibili solo per i soci? per problemi di licenza dei driver NVIDIA. Se vuoi tutto nella iso devi aver pagato 120 euro invece di 60, altrimenti puoi scaricare

Re: [newbie-it] Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-22 Thread Sandro
Alle 21:17, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Nevermind ha scritto: Alle 23:11, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, paolo brusasco ha scritto: ? non te lo chiede esplicitamente? Ok, dopo smadonnamenti vari ho reinstallato tutto, ora sono sicuro di avere la 4.3, selezionata direttamente al momento di installare

Re: [newbie-it] installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-22 Thread Fabio Manunza
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 20:17, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, Mauro ha scritto: Salve, ho installato già da quasi 1 anno cirka la mdk 9.0, ma nn posso dire di esserne soddisfatto, perkè pratikamente una volta al mese devo reinstallare ( e a volte riformatare l'hd ) l'OS.

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread Germano
il Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:56, Andrea Celli ha scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :( Alle 00:28, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, miKe ha scritto: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 23:18, martedì 21 ottobre 2003, mediatv ha scritto a [EMAIL

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread Andrea Celli
4) Anche se lo facessero (dubito) le pseudo-sottoaziende alle quali li hanno ceduti più o meno legalmente li cancelleranno anche loro? (mm, non penso). su questo si può fare casino!! 5) Qualunque postilla abbiano messo non è detto che sia legale (i contratti non fanno giurisprudenza)

Re: [newbie-it] Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-22 Thread Nevermind
Alle 11:36, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Sandro ha scritto: OK, che processore hai (Intel o amd?) Amd Atlhon XP 1800+ Che versione dei driver hai? puoi postare il nome completo del file? NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run Un'altra cosa: oltre al nvidia al posto di nv hai aggiunto anche:

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 00:53, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, mediatv ha scritto a [EMAIL PROTECTED] in merito a Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :( : Ma a me non risulta che nessun provider si sia mai impegnato a garantire un servizio gratuito. Leggi

[newbie-it] Scanner Mustek 1200 UB Plus

2003-10-22 Thread Nevermind
So che già un certo Antonio, a giugno, aveva dato indicazioni sullo scanner in oggetto, ed infatti con le sue indicazioni ero riuscito a configurarlo. Ora, dopo aver reinstallato il tutto, lo scanner viene riconosciuto correttamente dal sistema, ma quando vado a lanciare XSane mi dà

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread Germano
il Wednesday 22 October 2003 14:24, Andrea Celli ha scritto riguardo a Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :( 4) Anche se lo facessero (dubito) le pseudo-sottoaziende alle quali li hanno ceduti più o meno legalmente li cancelleranno anche loro? (mm, non penso). su questo si può

Re: [newbie-it] Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-22 Thread Sandro
Alle 12:30, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Nevermind ha scritto: Alle 11:36, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Sandro ha scritto: OK, che processore hai (Intel o amd?) Amd Atlhon XP 1800+ Che versione dei driver hai? puoi postare il nome completo del file? NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run Credo

[newbie-it] driver pcmcia wireless

2003-10-22 Thread nicola
Sono disperato...Ho MDK 9.1 e sto tentando di configurare la mia scheda wireless della U.S.Robotics(22 Mbps Wireless PC Card).Ho chiamato il num.verde di US Robotics chiedendogli se esistevano dei driver per Linux.La risposta è stata ovviamente negativa...Sotto il centro di controllo di

Re: [newbie-it] Problema di boot dopo aver installato XFree86

2003-10-22 Thread Nevermind
Alle 17:39, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Sandro ha scritto: Mi confermi che la tua è una geforce (mmx2 o che?) La scheda video è una GeForce2 MX400 -- // ( o o ) --ooO-(_)-Ooo-- Nevermind, un newbie di Linux con

[newbie-it] unallocated area sull'hard disk e installazione (problemi??) + winmodem

2003-10-22 Thread Pierluigi Peggiani
Sull'hard disk (visualizzato con partition magic) ho una area definita UNaLLOCATED. Può essere un problema durante l'installazione di mandrake 9.2? La suddetta versione riconosce i modem winmodem conexant? Grazie a tutti! Pierluigi Peggiani Piacenza

Re: [newbie-it] Perdita Dati parte seconda

2003-10-22 Thread Nicola Degl'Innocenti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 09:25, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Andrea Celli ha scritto: Mettiamo che hai i i nomi dei file mancanti in lista, dovrebbe funzionare qualcosa del tipo for i in `cat lista`; do rpm -qf $i rpm-rovinati ; done sort rpm-rovinati | uniq

Re: [newbie-it] OT attenzione utenti Libero :(

2003-10-22 Thread mediatv
Io non riesco a capire perchè si sta alzando un polverone per una questione inutile. Libero dice che per poter leggere la posta di Libero, Iol, Inwind o Blu, bisogna collegarsi ad un suo pop o tramite webmail, tutto quà. I clienti di Libero, hanno sottoscritto un contratto (gratuito) nel quale

Re: [newbie-it] Periferiche IDE: problemi assortiti

2003-10-22 Thread Moreno T
Tutto era filato liscio fino alle 17:46, giovedì 16 ottobre 2003, quando [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Scrive Fabio Manunza [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Creali cliccando sul desktop con il tasto destro, crea nuovo -- dispositivo cd (o dvd). In questa maniera, una volta montati, l'unica differenza

[newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-22 Thread Mauro
Salve, ho installato già da quasi 1 anno cirka la mdk 9.0, ma nn posso dire di esserne soddisfatto, perkè pratikamente una volta al mese devo reinstallare ( e a volte riformatare l'hd ) l'OS. Non sono uno smanettone, per cui nn installo troppi programmi. Insomma, la domanda è questa: è

Re: [newbie-it] Problema server vari su mandrake 9.1

2003-10-22 Thread Luca Morsiani
a livello di tcp wrapper (xinetd) devi abilitare all'ascolto non solo la eth0 ma anche ppp0 quindi aggiungere a hosts.allow il tuo amico per i servizi ai quali vuoi che acceda (man tcpd) idem per i servizi standalone, a livello di configurazione locale aggiungi al binding la seconda

[newbie-it] Re: Scanner Mustek 1200 UB Plus

2003-10-22 Thread Mauro
Hello Nevermind So che già un certo Antonio, a giugno, aveva dato indicazioni sullo scanner in oggetto, ed infatti con le sue indicazioni ero riuscito a configurarlo. Ora, dopo aver reinstallato il tutto, lo scanner viene riconosciuto correttamente dal sistema, ma quando vado a lanciare XSane

Re: [newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-22 Thread mediatv
Scusa, normalmente viene attivata da sola e non so se e come si può intervenire su di essa dopo l'installazione senza combinare qualche guaio. Io sto usando Mandrake 9.1 da un pò di mesi e non mai avuto di questi problemi. Prova a installare tutto nuovamente, magari aggiornandoti anche tu alla

Re: [newbie-it] Re: Scanner Mustek 1200 UB Plus

2003-10-22 Thread Nevermind
Alle 21:47, mercoledì 22 ottobre 2003, Mauro ha scritto: Spero di non fare una scorrettezza nel riportare le risposte date in giugno da altri Erano esattamente le risposte che io ho seguito per configurare il mio, e che a suo tempo avevano funzionato. Ora però mi esce quel messaggio...

[newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-22 Thread Mauro
Scusa, normalmente viene attivata da sola e non so se e come si può intervenire su di essa dopo l'installazione senza combinare qualche guaio. Io sto usando Mandrake 9.1 da un pò di mesi e non mai avuto di questi problemi. Prova a installare tutto nuovamente, magari aggiornandoti anche tu

Re: [newbie-it] Re: installazione e reinstallazione

2003-10-22 Thread mediatv
Mandrake 9.1 è anche in italiano, ma da quello che vedo hai installato utilizzando diversi hardisk. Penso che la migliore cosa sia utilizzare un solo hardisk per il sistema e farlo partizionare in automatico ed intervenire manualmente solo sulle dimensioni. Se non si hanno esigenze

Re: [newbie-it] Re: Scanner Mustek 1200 UB Plus

2003-10-22 Thread NIC
Spero di non fare una scorrettezza nel riportare le risposte date in giugno da altri Penso proprio di no Mauro.Io che ho lo stesso scanner confermo tutto quello che hai postato tu.Funziona benissimo su MDK 9.1. Devi decommentare questa: # override mustek-scanexpress-1200-ub-plus e subito

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Raffaele Belardi
$ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's making. On my PIII/733 it takes less than 15minutes to tar and gzip more than 600Mbyte of

RE: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
You have to tell it what to tar and where to tar it to. tar -cfz test.tar /home/test/. Tony. -Original Message- From: HaywireMac [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 10:51 AM To: Mandrake Newbs Subject: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz I want back up a

[newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Paul Kaplan
Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. TIA Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Kernel Compiling in 9.2 -Update - 9.2 bug?

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:09, Sharrea Day wrote: make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/arch/i386/mm' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-10mdk/include -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon

Re: [newbie] Scanner (SCSI) question

2003-10-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 3:52 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 04:52 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I'd see it as HardwareIssues, because it's a configuration problem, not a compatibility report, so how about http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/SCSI ? Anne Ah...Anne -

[newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Sendak, John
I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut ctr+V into Xterm (which seems to be the only terminal available although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). The paste did not work. I checked the shortcut options and they seemed to be set. The ctr+V

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Paul M. Bucalo
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 01:25 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced me with: This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. Welcome to Mandrake! I like it as it is, Eric. Nice job on this and the Etiquette TWiki page. If you ever find a need to

Re: [newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 10:42 am, Sendak, John wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut ctr+V into Xterm (which seems to be the only terminal available although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). The paste did not work. I checked the

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. Phew! So I am not the only one then! There is a screensaver of sorts that works automatically - the mandrake slideshow thing (not to my taste TBH!). I migrated to

[newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread QingHua Wang
Hi, there Yesterday I tried to burn some photos to a cd. I seemed that everything's OK, but after the burning I couldn't access the cd. I used K3B 0.8.1 to create a data CD. The CD writer is a Toshiba one. (I have used it to burn MDK 9.1 into CDs with Window$ before but now I shift to MDK.)

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the progress it's

[newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Dum Dum
Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the all of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. _ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:22 am, QingHua Wang wrote: Hi, there Yesterday I tried to burn some photos to a cd. I seemed that everything's OK, but after the burning I couldn't access the cd. I used K3B 0.8.1 to create a data CD. The CD writer is a Toshiba one. (I have used it to burn

Re: [newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 12:29:13 +0100 Dum Dum [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the all of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. If you mean the free download

Re: [newbie] Download of Linux 9.2

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:29 am, Dum Dum wrote: Hey Guys anyone knows what happened to the Mandrake Distribution... I downloaded the two ISO images but cant any of the ISO images on the all of the FTP servers listed on the Mandrake site. It is only available to Club members until end of

[newbie] Download Mandrake ISO images

2003-10-22 Thread Dum Dum
Where do i download the ISO images of the linux Mandrake 9.2.. ??? Downloaded two CD images from the Mandrake FTP listing, but the FTP sites have removed the ISO images for 9.2 for some reason. Can anyone help me out there Please

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake ISO images

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:06:35 +0100 Dum Dum [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Where do i download the ISO images of the linux Mandrake 9.2.. ??? Downloaded two CD images from the Mandrake FTP listing, but the FTP sites have removed the ISO images for 9.2 for some reason. didn't we just

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread qhwang
Many thanks for your response. The problem is, the burning process was very smooth. There was no error taking place, I think. Did you finalize the CD? If you created a multisession CD and did not finalize the volume, you will NOT be able to mount the CD since the Lead In and Lead Out as well

Re: [newbie] 9.2, no menus on install

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 06:01, Derek Jennings wrote: I also lost my menus after performing an online upgrade from 9.1 to 9.2 If you run update-menus -d You should get verbose messages and it will highlight any malformations in the menu files. In my case it pointed out to me that

[newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...

2003-10-22 Thread Adamglazener71
Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having trouble installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem. Can anyone help me? I also have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com PCI 56k modem with Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I can't figure that one out either. On my PC with the ESS it

Re: [newbie] Shortcuts

2003-10-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:42:31AM +0100, Sendak, John wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 9.2. I tried to copy and paste - using the shortcut ctr+V into Xterm (which seems to be the only terminal available although I thought I had more with Mandrake 9.1). The paste did not work. If

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:59:57 +0200 Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: $ tar cvzf archive_file.tgz archive_directory/ will tar and compress the contents of archive_directory/ into a file named archive_file.tgz. v is not mandatory, but gives you the idea of the

[newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
What package installs diskdrake ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how do I kill teh firewall in Mandrake 9.0?

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm back here, after a prolonged absence. I just did a fresh install of the powerpack edition of Mandrake 9.0. My previous installation on the same machine was the download edition of Mandrake 8.1, upgraded by upgrade packages only

[newbie] Samba3 upgrade from Samba 2.2.7a

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, Has anybody gone through this yet on 9.1? Samba3 is installed as Samba3 so it does not just do it automatically. Any hints/tips/links would be well appreciated. Thanks, Tony. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake harddrake detects it the drive light goes steady on and the

[newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually moved (and it was not a slow system). Just curious as to

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy - give Linux to a friend today

RE: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Mine does not, it is a Kingston one, can't remember which model. It works fine I just have a problem with the placement with the side buttons as sometimes unintentionally I press on while trying to move the mouse (killer in some games). Tony. -Original Message- From: Sharrea Day

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? John drakxtools-newt -- Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually moved (and it was not a slow system). Just

Re: [newbie] cd burning fails

2003-10-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:36 am, qhwang wrote: Many thanks for your response. The problem is, the burning process was very smooth. There was no error taking place, I think. Did you finalize the CD? If you created a multisession CD and did not finalize the volume, you will NOT be able

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Sharrea Day wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:24, John Richard Smith wrote: What package installs diskdrake ? [root]default# which diskdrake /usr/sbin/diskdrake [root]default# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/sbin/diskdrake drakxtools-newt-9.2-16mdk Sharrea Hey that's a useful little command

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the

Re: [newbie] How 2 Install ESS Modem...

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 Oct 2003 1:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm a little new at Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I'm having trouble installing my ESS 2838/2839 PCI 56k modem. Can anyone help me? I also have another computer with a USRobotics/3Com PCI 56k modem with Linux Mandrake 9.1 and I

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
I want back up a directory to an archive for my upcoming big wipe for 9.2. The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. Is it faster (but less compression) just to do tar.gz? YMMV, but i have heard people

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 22, 2003 04:01 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Where are the kscreensaver modules? I installed 9.2 from the download CDs and they're not visible in the control center. TIA Paul A workaround taken from bugzilla: Do: mkdir

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the cursor actually

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
This is an automated weekly message mainly intended for people new to Mandrake's Newbie List. Welcome to Mandrake! I like it as it is, Eric. Nice job on this and the Etiquette TWiki page. If you ever find a need to move onto something new in your career-life, try being a legalese

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:46:46 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Superglide Isn't that...? Never mind. -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's More:

Re: [newbie] Welcome to Newbie

2003-10-22 Thread Eric Huff
If this one makes it, it means that simpa just doesn't like seeing it's name in print. This is the second version I've seen... coming through fine here. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to do this Eric. I sent about twenty of them! The first one you saw was ultra truncatated (and

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 08:40:53 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: YMMV, but i have heard people profess loudly not to use compression on backups. The tar isn't as small, but way less chance of corruption... I tested 'em all afore I burned 'em, but thanks for the concern! --

Re: [newbie] screensavers

2003-10-22 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
mkdir /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden ln -s /usr/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers /usr/share/applnk-mdk.hidden/ Sorted - cheers. Just when I was getting used to gnome :-) -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM:

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 09:14 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 21 October 2003 08:29 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Wondering if anyone has run into this, I put a brand new (cheap $19.95 US) LG CDROM in the computer, a Gigabyte MB with Athlon 2000 cpu and DDR ram, and as soon as Mandrake

[newbie] pppd dies

2003-10-22 Thread Warren Post
Most, but not every, time that I try to connect to the net, pppd dies within 5 seconds with an exit code #10. /var/log/daemons/errors says: Oct 20 15:03:40 gerencia pppd[2104]: Could not determine local IP address What could cause pppd to be unable to determine a local IP address, and what can I

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 02:16 pm, S. Wieland wrote: I first installed mandrake 9.1 on monday 10-20-03 and everything went smoothly. I figured out how to use irc and mozilla and konquer.And so yesterday after reading the mandrake starter pdf (on my win2k box) i got the bright idea to

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Sharrea Day
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:06, HaywireMac wrote: I use a Microsoft Intellimouse Optical, and I would never go back to balls (insert crude joke here). Me neither... besides its not so bad being a chick ;) No sign of any delay, very responsive and smoooth as...well, something very smooth. If

[newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread Marco Hoefman
Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works great! The only thing is that I have a USB ADSL modem from speedtouch, I've downloaded the Linux drivers for it but I am not sure how to install the driver. The downloaded file

Re: [newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 21:49, Marco Hoefman wrote: Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works great! The only thing is that I have a USB ADSL modem from speedtouch, I've downloaded the Linux drivers for it but I

Re: [newbie] How do I install an updated driver?

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Im just guessing but I believe you have to extract the file onto the floppy then it should work from there (maybe) :-/ tar.gz is = to a rar or zip file Marco Hoefman wrote: Hello everybody, I recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.1 on a second partition and the dual boot programm LILO works

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Dennis: There have been some reports on the club Forums about 9.2 killing LG drives and there is also some discussion at cooker. Take a look at the second posting here:

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:06 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Barefoot on a

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:37 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Will Mandrake be issuing a new edition for download that has been tested *not* to hose people's hardware? It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. No probs with 9.1 or

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 08:46, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 10:30 am, Sharrea Day wrote: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:50:59PM -0400, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 11:53 am, HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:46:46 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Superglide Isn't that...? Never mind. Yeah... :-) Or Astro... Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread HaywireMac
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 16:05:37 -0500 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: It's kernel issue, not just Mandrake's. Any distro usin 2.4.22 could mess up junk hardware. Go to kernel.org and look for the various hardware blacklists. Or don't buy junk to run Linux on. So all the people

[newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I am sorry to have to report it, but for me the BitTorrent download of 9.2 has been a bit of a disappointment: For 2 days I tried several versions via Mozilla without success. My own fault, I should have tested it earlier when I had a chance.

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread S. Wieland
Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no download link Secondly when i come across a .run file do i want to click on it and let it load in the browser then after it

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
I am curious. Are you a member of Mandrake Club and trying to downlaod through the Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members? I ask as a non-member who has been thinking of making the commitment. However, I am quite pleased with 9.1, so . LeRoy Duvall Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:23:30 -0700, S. Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no download link Secondly when i come across a .run

Re: [newbie] OT optical mice

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 03:30:50 +1300 Sharrea Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I used a friend's optical mouse while fixing their PC. As I'd never used an optical mouse before, I was not impressed with it in either Windows or Linux. In both OS there was a noticeable delay before the

Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:23 pm, S. Wieland wrote: Thanks a bunch. Everything worked out fine. Well except d/l from mandrake club (i signed up for silver) but how do i d/l stuff i searched for flash and such but theres no download link You can either browse the commercial area of the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking

Re: [newbie] How long to create a large tar.gz

2003-10-22 Thread RichardA
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 05:51:00 -0400, HaywireMac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The directory is about 630MB, and I left it going for 4.5 hours creating a tar.bz2, still wasn't done when I got up this AM. It's been mentioned before, but is there a link somewhere to a higher directory, making a loop? If

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to install it. If it not, then you'll probly have to choose 'install' and fix your partitions.

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Heather/Femme
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Plextor rocks. So does Teak Velo.

Re: [newbie] BitTorrent

2003-10-22 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi LeRoy, On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 22:15:23 - (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] BitTorrent: Are you a member of Mandrake Club and trying to downlaod through the Special download mirror list exclusively for Club members? That`s right.

Re: [newbie] diskdrake

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 06:44 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: How 'bout booting the 1st CD and choosing 'upgrade'? Not sure I under stand your problem. Is the system unbootable? If it's bootable you can 'urpmi diskdrake' or use rpmdrake to install it. If it

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not get fried. Thanks for the info. Makes me feel not so stupid. --

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread lduvall
As a former tech support person for the evil empire I find this thread somewhat interesting. We used to say that software does not break hardware - then we had video card settings breaking monitors. Now we have Linux taking it to a new level LeRoy Duvall Linux user #258988 On Wednesday 22

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:09 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 03:48 pm, Heather/Femme wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 11:20:12 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis: SNIP Anyway, I am watching to see what drives actually will work and not

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