[newbie] Sound question this time

2003-12-09 Thread Carren Stuart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, Thanks to everyone who replied to my last post re my modem. Your help combined with that from elsewhere meant I now have a working modem and can get online at last! :-) The other major problem I currently have is, no sound. I have no

Re: [newbie] Sound question this time

2003-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 7:15 am, Carren Stuart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again, Thanks to everyone who replied to my last post re my modem. Your help combined with that from elsewhere meant I now have a working modem and can get online at last! :-) The other

[newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Ok Joe et al.. If I try to load Gdesklets from the menu it does nothing. Running it from terminal gets this: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr//bin/gdesklets, line 4, in ? from main import HOME File /usr/share/gdesklets/main/__init__.py, line 39, in ? import gnome.ui

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I run CD1 install disc and get it to rebuild and install a new kernel only ?

Re: [newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 08:35:37 + Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running it from terminal gets this: Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr//bin/gdesklets, line 4, in ? from main import HOME File /usr/share/gdesklets/main/__init__.py, line 39, in ? import

Re: [newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 05:14:12 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try urpmi pygnome, see if that helps. Sorry, should be urpmi gnome-python. See FAQ here: http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4403sid=16925a466900352483bdca7277f8327d -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
[EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]# urpmi gnome-python Everything already installed [EMAIL PROTECTED] williamblake]# urpmi pygtk2.0 Everything already installed Tnink my other option is to go get the gdesklets tarball and try installing that. See what happens I guess... -- John Willby

Re: [newbie] k3b grief

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Kaplan
Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord rpm for mdk 9.1. I didn't have any dependency problems with the cdrecord downgrade and I doubt there will be a problem with cdrdao. On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:30 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [newbie] Gdesklets (again!)

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:51:03 + Inhabitant of Zion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tnink my other option is to go get the gdesklets tarball and try installing that. See what happens I guess... The funny thing (well, not so funny as frustrating, I guess), is that I have gdesklets installed, and

Re: [newbie] Mozilla mail filters

2003-12-09 Thread robin
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 08 December 2003 14:15, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: snip Ideas on the current STABLE release of Mozilla (1.5?) appreciated. Time to get learning and learn how to install an RPM or source from an external CD. /snip Hylton, Mozilla 1.5 doesn't come as a rpm, but

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I run CD1 install disc and get it to rebuild and install a new kernel only ? That

[newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I run CD1 install disc and get it to rebuild and install a new kernel only ? That

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:48, John Richard Smith wrote: If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I run CD1 install

Re: [newbie] Problem with SCSI Controller

2003-12-09 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:55 am, Yvan Gutknecht wrote: YG You are right, it looks like that, there just one problem. There is no unit YG connected to my SCSI controller. YG I have to admit, I'm a little confused here - I've been following this thread loosely (as I do most with anything

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:48, John Richard Smith wrote: If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything from the beginning. Can you rebuild a replacement while on desktop ? Can I

[newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Fajar Priyanto
Dear all, I'm almost frustated. I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. Both primary master and slave are maxtors. I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure I did it right.

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 12:33:24PM +, John Richard Smith wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:48, John Richard Smith wrote: If you're on desktop and accidentally deleted your kernel from /boot directory is there any way to put one back other than reinstall everything

Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 13:07, Scott Naylor wrote: I have been trying to get VMWare working for a little bit now. I have been trying to get my Win98 OS working on my HDA parition. The problem is that every time I try to launch the OS LiLO causes and error where this: L 07 07 07 07 07 07 07,

[newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi I'm trying to install the kernel_source so I can run the NVIDIA driver, but when I try to use the Mandrake 9.2 software installer I get a message that the rpm has a missing signature, could not open file. It doesn't seem to matter where I get the package from, Mandrake_Updates, elsewhere -

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Just a guess, do you have gpg installed? To check, just type $ gpg --version from the command line. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm trying to install the kernel_source so I can run the NVIDIA driver, but when I try to use the Mandrake 9.2 software installer I get a message that the

Re: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
for an easy wine configuration, you can use the winesetuptk programm. It have a graphical enviroment to configure wine. then you just have to launch the programm you wath to test from the shell like this [EMAIL PROTECTED] wine ./MiProg.exe and if works then you are done if not maybe

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Paul O'Rorke
Hi raffaele, I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]$ gpg --version gpg (GnuPG) 1.2.3 Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the file

Re: [newbie] VMWare problems! Please Help!

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
hey i had a like problem some time ago... and was because i was using Lilo with graphical. I mode try to use them with text mode and it worked. Now about runing a allready installed win98 system that was not created from VMWare... i'm not shure if it will work... i've tryed some time but did'nt

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Modem troubles

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
The first thing... about the modem... there are a lot of information about the real modems and the winmodems (or toy modems)... and because the winmodems are not based on standards of hardware and communications but on them own cheap technologi... is hard to make every winmodem works on Linux.

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 15:25, Paul O'Rorke wrote: Hi I'm trying to install the kernel_source so I can run the NVIDIA driver, but when I try to use the Mandrake 9.2 software installer I get a message that the rpm has a missing signature, could not open file. It doesn't seem to matter

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I Hadn't thought of that, a bit obvious really. So I decided, what have I got to loose. but instead, I decided to try installing the original kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk off the discs. sure enough it installed something. ls - /boot

[newbie] Not booting

2003-12-09 Thread Yves Arsenault
Hello, This morning my Mandrake 9 box was not responding to my login through SSH or locally. I had logged in my FTP server and also the few small websites that are hosted on it were working. I needed to make a few changes to a site, so I needed access. After trying to log in nothing. So after

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 01:41 pm, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm almost frustated. I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. Both primary master and slave are maxtors. I've double checked the jumper setting and

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 07:41, Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm almost frustated. I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. Both primary master and slave are maxtors. I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: Make sure you don't have any broken symlink in /boot and that they are pointing to the right file. If every symlink is right, my guess is that you will boot without problem. Adolfo I don't think the symlinks will be that important to me because I always specify

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
hey i don't think that's a contact mather. The maxtors harddrives are a litle self exlcludent thats why you can only see one of them at any configuration you use... i recommend you use separated ide cables for each one and you will see them work fine... try this before doing some thing

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Dear all, I'm almost frustated. I tried to add a primary slave hdd into the system, but it didn't work. The BIOS failed to recognise the drive. Both primary master and slave are maxtors. I've double checked the jumper setting and I'm sure I did it right.

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: I think you've got it fixed, tho I would'a used 'rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk..rpm' The addition of force would insure that all the needed files and dirs for the kernel are replaced. You can still do it, and I suggest you do. This is about the only proper

RE: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-09 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Lanman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 7:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] I'm baaak! Well Gang ! After a short hiatus while I dumped a crappy ISP, I'm back and ready to,..um, ...er,.. read emails, Welcome

[newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi All. Having gotten no response to my original posting on this subject I'm left to wonder if I have simply totally messed up my current install of Mandrake 9.2 with my attempts to run update and therefore must simply reinstall? Or perhaps my questions were just too ignorant of the issues

Re: [newbie] Complete failure (Now completely OT)

2003-12-09 Thread magnet
On Monday 08 Dec 2003 7:18 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 6:43 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: On Monday 08 Dec 2003 8:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: UK domestic is 240v can vary between 230/250 v(meaning it's allowed) but I have never experienced in my lifetime much variation

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: I think you've got it fixed, tho I would'a used 'rpm -ivh --force kernel-2.4.21-0.13mdk..rpm' The addition of force would insure that all the needed files and dirs for the kernel are replaced. You can still do it, and I suggest you do. This

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Langsley, I'm sure you are not being ignored. I for one am not sure what you were trying to do with urpmi, You talk about updating, but what ? Updating the entire OS , or just OO I would not even attempt an urpmi update of an entire OS with nothing but a dialup modem It's just too slow, my ISP

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 03:27 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom, will my nvidia drivers be there as well ? or will I have ro reinstall them as well ? John I don't use 'em. Tho I have a GeF4, I use the XFree driver, better 2d performance no imported bug/security/licensing/kernel

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread cdrack
sorry i maybe misst youre original post... but let's do some thing about you said that the problem begans after a update process right...??? have you note that the urpmi had a bug and must be updated by hand...??? the rpm manager was closing wrong the data base so it causes the links

[newbie] where are my messages???

2003-12-09 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
I have just spent 15 minutes connected to te net to download my 147 messages of which I was expecting an important reply on one of the earlier sent ones. When I click on Inbox under Mozilla 1.3 it gives me no unread messages and even if I look at the subfolders I have creatred I cannot see the

Re: [newbie] where are my messages???

2003-12-09 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Maybe mozilla's junk controls are turned on? Did 1.3 _have_ junk control? raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just spent 15 minutes connected to te net to download my 147 messages of which I was expecting an important reply on one of the earlier sent ones. When I click on Inbox under

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 03:27 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Tom, will my nvidia drivers be there as well ? or will I have ro reinstall them as well ? John I don't use 'em. Tho I have a GeF4, I use the XFree driver, better 2d performance no imported

Re: [newbie] gtk debugging libraries

2003-12-09 Thread Dimitar Haralanov
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:27:22 -0800 Dimitar Haralanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 22:03:31 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: glibc-debug Thank you for the hint, but I am looking for GTK debugging libraries not glibc. So I take it by the

[newbie] gotmail working yet? hotwayd is not

2003-12-09 Thread Todd Slater
hotwayd stopped working yesterday; is gotmail working yet? The wife can't bear going to hotmail.com to read her mail! Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] How can I replace my deleted kernel

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
It booted fine. Only thing is I like the boot script full width of the screen and that gui squashes it up too much for my taste.Is that what lba32 does to it , as in, boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=791 default=91-2.4.21.0 keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt nowarn

Re: [newbie] kernel_source(OT)

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:49 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 20:42, Charlie Mahan wrote: whack Hey Charlie, What do you use for snipping, an axe or a club? ;) Good luck, HarM A broad axe HarM. g But that was shown as

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 12:29 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote: On December 9, 2003 11:23 am, C. Tresenriter wrote: I have 1024MB RAM so I should boot to enterprise by default then? It also supports multi processors and has a few other bells and whistles.

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 08 December 2003 10:12 am, Teilhard Knight wrote: whack, snip and edit Open Source Sound (OSS), or Alsa. Which? How do I tell? Here goes another of those damned Charlie books. Sorry for length in other words. Your posting of the output for

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Paul O'Rorke
On December 9, 2003 11:50 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip or axe...? OK I tried what you said, using the terminal and was successful in adding main as a source, I got stuck when trying to install the kernel_source. I got: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ororkep]# urpmi --wget kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk

[newbie] CD drives problem

2003-12-09 Thread Teilhard Knight
My computer has a DVD reader, a CD burner, and a DVD burner. Three drives. My problem is that Mandrake seems to have problems reading the contents of a CD (DVD) in any of the drives. Usually Konqueror feezes the computer for something like 3 min, and after that it says it cannot access the drive.

Re: [newbie] Sound and video

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 1:07 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: HEY HarM! WHACK g Well, Charlie, you made it this time. I have sound now. I saw I had KMix, and I didn't want to download aumix because I would have two devices doing essentially the same

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 1:13 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote: On December 9, 2003 11:50 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip or axe...? OK I tried what you said, using the terminal and was successful in adding main as a source, I got stuck when trying to

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 1:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: whack It may benefit you to have all your software sources other than the CDs on one mirror. I notice you added the source I posted for main but you use secsup for updates. Add main there

Re: [newbie] CD drives problem

2003-12-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 21:25, Teilhard Knight wrote: My computer has a DVD reader, a CD burner, and a DVD burner. Three drives. My problem is that Mandrake seems to have problems reading the contents of a CD (DVD) in any of the drives. Usually Konqueror feezes the computer for something

Re: [newbie] CD drives problem

2003-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 9:02 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 21:25, Teilhard Knight wrote: My computer has a DVD reader, a CD burner, and a DVD burner. Three drives. My problem is that Mandrake seems to have problems reading the contents of a CD (DVD) in any of the

Re: [newbie] gotmail working yet? hotwayd is not

2003-12-09 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 6:07 pm, Todd Slater wrote: hotwayd stopped working yesterday; is gotmail working yet? The wife can't bear going to hotmail.com to read her mail! Todd Not yet. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want

[newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
Hi there I am buying a new PC with a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard (a all-in-one with i865G chip set). In the section Recommended hardware for 9.2 Mandrake writes that the i865G chip set works when it comes to graphics. http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/9.2/features/#14 Great! But what

Re: [newbie] CD drives problem

2003-12-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 22:10, Derek Jennings wrote: This sounds similar to the issue I have with my laptop which has a removable floppy drive. If the floppy drive is not plugged in , then anytime I browse the /mnt directory konqueror locks up while the system works out the floppy is not

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 22:31, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Hi there I am buying a new PC with a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard (a all-in-one with i865G chip set). In the section Recommended hardware for 9.2 Mandrake writes that the i865G chip set works when it comes to graphics.

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 2:31 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: Hi there I am buying a new PC with a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard (a all-in-one with i865G chip set). In the section Recommended hardware for 9.2 Mandrake writes that the i865G chip set

Re: [newbie] gotmail working yet? hotwayd is not

2003-12-09 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:45:17PM +, obu wrote: hotwayd stopped working yesterday; is gotmail working yet? The wife can't bear going to hotmail.com to read her mail! Todd My hotwayd is still working fine. Ooops!! I went back and checked the firewall setup and I had blocked the port.

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 21:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip As with all software/hardware interfaces; YMMV. Your mileage may vary and you're on your own. There are only three certainties in life: 1.) S#!t happens; 2.) Taxes; 3.)You'll never escape alive. /snip I wholeheartedly agree

RE: [newbie] Wine for Dummies Tutorial?

2003-12-09 Thread deedee
Melissa Reese wrote: Before I boot back into Mandrake to do a bit more tweaking, I'd like to know if there's a *simple as possible* tutorial somewhere for setting up Wine and installing a program into (onto?) it? The tutorials I've found so far seem to assume that I'm already comfortable with the

[newbie] VMWare accessing other Hard Drives

2003-12-09 Thread Scott Naylor
I was wondering if there is any way to get VMWare installed Win98 OS's to access the partitions of other Win98 OS's that aren't created by VMWare. If not then is there any way to right files to the VMWare Win98 from linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:12 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 21:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip As with all software/hardware interfaces; YMMV. Your mileage may vary and you're on your own. There are only three certainties

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. I've been getting notices from

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 12:41 am, many eyes noted that Fajar Priyanto wrote: The errors were: 1. If I set hdd #1 as master and hdd #2 as slave, BIOS only recognise hdd #1 2. If I set both hdd as cable select then only hdd #2 is recognised. 3. If I set hdd #1 as slave and hdd #2 as slave/cable

Re: [newbie] VMWare accessing other Hard Drives

2003-12-09 Thread N. B. Day
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:17, Scott Naylor wrote: I was wondering if there is any way to get VMWare installed Win98 OS's to access the partitions of other Win98 OS's that aren't created by VMWare. If not then is there any way to right files to the VMWare Win98 from linux? If you have samba

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Margot
Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. I've

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 3:32 pm, Charlie wrote: whack Any opinion? Any experiences? Pls help me. Thanks. Fajar. All 4 of my internal drives, both USB enclosures, and all but 2 of the last 5 systems I assembled, are using Maxtor drives. Most

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 3:33 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hello again John, and thanks for your response. I didn't think I was being ignored, rather possibly that my questions left people at a loss. The update to which I was referring is the

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 22:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: Specifically what do you want someone to say? I want somebody to say: Yes, I run Mandrake on a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, and ;-) -j -- Spiren er landet! http://spiren.janus.dk Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:09 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 22:50, Charlie Mahan wrote: Specifically what do you want someone to say? I want somebody to say: Yes, I run Mandrake on a ASUS P4P800-VM motherboard, and

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread John Richard Smith
Langsley T Russell wrote: The update to which I was referring is the Mandrake Update in the Software Management section of Mandrake control Center. If you have updated your sources then it has been updating all the outstanding packages to bring things up todate with current released packages

Re: [newbie] Update Blew Away OO.o Again

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:12 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: whack To open a console have you tried holding the CTRL button and striking the F2 button? Type konsole in the resulting run command box then strike the enter key. Or if you want to go directly

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:37:50 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a boot-able livecd and try it. Do you have any experience with positive/negative reactions of salespeople to a customer wanting to boot one of their

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 4:47 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:37:50 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a boot-able livecd and try it. Do you have any

[newbie]

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Brandt
Hey ive just compiled mplayer 1.0 on my Mandrake 9.2 system and i want to enable the gui. When i tried to do this it says i dont have GTK. I have been told i need the GTK-devel files but where can i get them? Thanks _ Get Hotmail

Re: [newbie] MDK9.2: Graphics works.. but what about the rest?

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 17:01:46 -0700 Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The manager of one store was insisting that Windows had to be installed to run Linux (pronounced incorrectly) and other fallacies. He soon shut up, and hides in the back whenever I walk in to buy parts now. (-; LOL! I

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:10:02 + Martin Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When i tried to do this it says i dont have GTK. I have been told i need the GTK-devel files but where can i get them? as root, in a terminal: urpmi libgtk+2-devel should do it. -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Brandt
Hm maybe they werent the files i need, it still doesnt detect GTK maybe i don't even have it.. Does anyone have any other ideas? P.S. Sorry i didnt post with a subject, im new here! : P From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date:

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:10:02 + Martin Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey ive just compiled mplayer 1.0 on my Mandrake 9.2 system and i want to enable the gui. When i tried to do this it says i dont have GTK. I have been told i need the GTK-devel files but where can i get them? One

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Brandt
Wow that worked, thanks. Didnt know it came with the distro. Thanks From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 19:38:45 -0500 On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 00:10:02 + Martin Brandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey ive just

[newbie] Screenshots on my site

2003-12-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
For any who visited my site previously what was shown in Screenshot was only a poor demo test. I have now gotten around to including 2 actual shots of this system. running 10.0 and Enlightenment-1.6.6. My normal size is 1280x1064 but I converted the shots to 1024x768 so you should not have to

Re: [newbie] VMWare accessing other Hard Drives

2003-12-09 Thread Scott Naylor
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:01 pm, N. B. Day wrote: If you have samba installed in Linux and a public samba share you should see it in Network Neighborhood in Windows; assuming you have the default bridged networking installed. I'm not sure if I have Samba installed, but I'll check next

Re: [newbie] Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tuesday 09 December 2003 05:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: Tuesday 09 December 2003 3:32 pm, Charlie wrote: Any opinion? Any experiences? Pls help me. Thanks. Fajar. whack again I think something else is the root of the problem. I've seen people have screaming fits when setting

Re: [newbie] Screenshots on my site

2003-12-09 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:56:06 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For any who visited my site previously what was shown in Screenshot was only a poor demo test. I have now gotten around to including 2 actual shots of this system. running 10.0 and Enlightenment-1.6.6. My normal

Re: [newbie] Screenshots on my site

2003-12-09 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:08:39 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, that one chick is some pretty freaky shit. I used 2 shaded apps to kinda cover the appropriate spots, but I see your mind can still envision what the eyes do not see. Got to go now,my dungeon awaits and this maid is

[newbie] VMWare and Samba

2003-12-09 Thread Scott Naylor
I know I can use Samba to have my VMWin98 communicate with my installed Win98. The problem is I have no idea how to set up Samba so this works! Can someone please give me some help? PS. Sound is all buggy in VMWare. Anyway to fix this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] CONCLUDED: Maxtor jumper really pissed me off

2003-12-09 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 09:07 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: If your drives are not identical, it's possible that they could have different jumpering. Dear friends, Thank you for all your help. I finally succeed in setting the jumper. My hdd #1

[newbie] MandrakeMove

2003-12-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
Okay, I've been lurking for a week on this. At the usual risk of sounding stupid, what is this disk good for? All it's done is irritate me because it boots into kde when I had such a time sorting out all the installs on my assorted boxes. Doesn't seem to do anything memorable though. Can't

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

2003-12-09 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:19:00 + Scott Naylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I can use Samba to have my VMWin98 communicate with my installed Win98. The problem is I have no idea how to set up Samba so this works! Can someone please give me some help? PS. Sound is all buggy in VMWare.

Re: [newbie] k3b grief

2003-12-09 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord rpm for | mdk 9.1. I didn't have any dependency problems with the cdrecord downgrade | and I doubt there will be a problem with cdrdao. This was great advice