Re: [newbie] kernel_source

Baby steps OK let me see if I am grasping what we are doing here. Hope this isn't too long winded but I'd like to know vaguely what I'm doing here... urpmi.removemedia main then: urpmi.addmedia main ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/9.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS with

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 09 December 2003 11:56 pm, Paul O'Rorke wrote: Baby steps OK let me see if I am grasping what we are doing here. Hope this isn't too long winded but I'd like to know vaguely what I'm doing here... urpmi.removemedia main then:

Re[2]: [newbie] Sound question this time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek, Thanks for your suggestions. As far as I can tell from what settings I can find, I don't have anything muted, but I am so new at this, anything is possible! :-) I will copy and paste here what I have posted in another forum also. Some of this

Re: [newbie] Sound question this time

Hi Have you looked in /etc/modules.conf to see if the relevant stuff for the alsa driver is in there? Without this the sound card won't work. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

On December 9, 2003 11:45 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: A little background info here might be usefull since you are going to so much trouble to help me. :-) Although my email address is from Australia, I've had that for more than 8 years. Since then I've moved to Canada as a landed Immigrant.

Re[2]: [newbie] Sound question this time

John, What *relevant stuff* might that be? :-) I have NO idea what I am doing here remember! I need to know what I am looking for and how to configure it correctly. Can you be a little more specific? -- - Carren Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] firebird emulation

Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Cheers Anton Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] firebird emulation

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:55 am, anton wrote: Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is

Re: [newbie] kernel_source

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 1:50 am, Paul O'Rorke wrote: whack I'll be harassing you again tomorrow with details of how your suggestions went. Cheers for now. A reply to this message will be forthcoming off list. Hope that's OK but I think the

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:50:03 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enlighten me. Didn't you see the pr0n? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ Well, he might as well have been bombing Denmark. -- Gore Vidal,

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:01, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone

[newbie] Some Windows Humour

Apparently this is *really* old, but I've never seen it, therefore found it quite funny: Windows: 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of

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

Eric Huff wrote: 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] k3b grief

Runor is that it's a mandrake problem in the dvd customization in cdrecord. P On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:43 am, Paul Harrison wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Kaplan wrote: | Try rpmseek.org and pick the most recent (highest version #) cdrecord rpm for | mdk

[newbie] login display managers

I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default background, then the screen blanks for a few seconds and then X restarts and I'm back to the

Re: [newbie] URGENT: Locked out of important directory [SOLVED]

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 23:27, Marco Verheul wrote: Well, sort of... I still can't figure out why I was locked out of these directories, but I managed to copy them into a new directory as root and give myself the proper permissions again. The immediate problem is solved, but I would still be

Re: [newbie] firebird emulation

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:23PM +1300, anton wrote: Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab, though there is an option to change that. Does anyone know if this is possible in Mozilla? Edit Preferences

Re: [newbie] Sound question this time

What *relevant stuff* might that be? :-) You should have something similar to this (This is for my card) - alias char-major-116 snd alias snd-card-0 snd-cs46xx alias char-major-14 soundcore alias sound-slot-0 cs46xx alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss

Re: [newbie] Modem troubles

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:47:36 +1300 Carren Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for that! I finally got my modem working and have just purchased the license key and upgraded to full driver version. For some reason though it will not accept my license key ... when I do the

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove

i didn't found the iso image... have some of you...??? Cdrack. --- JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 21:50:03 -0500 Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Enlighten me. Didn't you see the pr0n? -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046

[newbie] Scan to PDF?

Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo __ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this gateway, everyone

Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo Of course xsane - Install xsane RPM in the setup select the copy tab and set the printer command to be qtcups --stdin Now when you use xsane to print a

Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?

Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Are you talking about images or text? If you just want to scan a page as an image, any of the SANE-based programs are fine - a good option is to set up the GIMP with SANE as a source, then save in Postscript

[newbie] HPT372 Raid and Mandrake 9.2

I am trying to setup RAID 0/1 using Mandrake 9.2 and a HPT 372. I have the 4 drives working correctly and the raid config has been successfully setup within the HPT management SW. However, Mandrake keeps breaking the RAID config on the HPT. Any suggestions? Thanks Doug Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 16:19, Scott Naylor 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. Anyway to fix this? It

[newbie] LaTex

Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as KWORD? Many thanks.

Re: [newbie] MandrakeMove

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:13, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:58:06 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 09 December 2003 08:50 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, I've been lurking for a week on this. At the usual risk of sounding stupid, what is this disk good

[newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise

With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. B) windows servers with Linux Clients C) Linux servers with windows desktops. My question,

[newbie] Buying notebook: tough decision. Help.

Dear all, Remember my decision to buy a notebook? I've been doing some comparisons and come into this difficult point, I hope you can help me out on this. I have3 choices: 1. Compaq presario 2516AP (USD 1,400) - Intel Pentium 4 processor 2.66Ghz - 256MB DDR SDRAM - 40GB HDD - 15" TFT XGA

[newbie] Re: Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise

Hi Jamie I setup a complete IT system for our small company (16-20 people) using mandrake Linux 9.1 (and some other stuff) I'll see if I can write more about this, but I have to go now The summary is, things are working quite well, but there's a lot of things that are hard or impossible

Re: [newbie] LaTex

qhwang wrote: Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as

Re: [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise

Ok, from the begining is not an easy work to move from a windows based company to a linux one, and you must be more than a newbie to get that job. I have like 5 years of experience working on linux, making diferent tests, implementing database servers, web servers, proxys, file servers,

Re: [newbie] LaTex

qhwang wrote: Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with word processor such as KWORD?

Re: [newbie] LaTex

Many thanks, John. I will go to check the CDs. The reason I wanna use LaTex is most scientific publishings have LaTex template. Once I created a pdf file edited using Kword. It looks very ugly because of the lack of fonts libraries(I guess). This is another reason I gonna try LaTex. Thanks again.

Re: [newbie] LaTex

Many thanks for your big response, Sir Robin. I will follow it carefully. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LaTex

John Richard Smith wrote: qhwang wrote: Hi There, Where can I download the Mandrake packages for LaTex? I am planning to use it with all my paper work afterwards. If anyone can tell me where to find a tutorial about install LaTex it should be very great. By the way, Can anyone compare it with

Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?

--- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo Of course Alternatively kooka - Install kdegraphics-kooka RPM. If you select 'Print' in

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this LAN is a MS Exchange Server xxx.xxx.xxx.16 which uses this

[newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2

Hi folks, The installation fiasco continues ... Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black space where the program should be and I had to kill it to get rid of it. There are no error messages

Re: [newbie] Scan to PDF?

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 5:31 pm, Tango Echo wrote: --- Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 3:05 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Is there an app that can easily scan docs to a PDF file? Thanks Tango Echo Of course Alternatively

[newbie] Re: Where's my mail?

There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the odd 4x messages I had selected

Re: [newbie] firebird emulation

OK, That's embarassing. I spent way too long looking for that not to find it :-( Cheers Anton Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 09:55:23PM +1300, anton wrote: Well, not quite, The default for MOZ firebird seems to be that when you open a new tab the focus is NOT put on that tab,

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:37 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, The installation fiasco continues ... Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed 9.2. However, having done so, when I started it up, I got mostly black space where the program should be and

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.10, also in this

Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?

Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: There are no junk controls set. I have uninstalled and reinstalled all the mozilla companents from the CD's since this problem occured. I have just managed to use my parents Windows machine to read my email via webmail. After reading it, I decided to download the

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

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote: I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant information that way since you're the one looking at the display. You'r right. But I do not have the oportunity.

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) accepted the defaults at installation and (2) have samba properly set up in Linux

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

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:46 pm, Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote: I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant

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

Janus Sandsgaard wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 00:37, Charlie Mahan wrote: I still think you should wander into the local dealer's shop with a boot-able livecd and try it. You'll get more relevant information that way since you're the one looking at the display. You'r right. But I do

Re: [newbie] LaTex

I have installed the Lyx. It's very easy and quick procedure. I found it's quite useful in my first trail. I am going to enjoy it. Thanks for your help, John and Sir Robin. Bests, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] LaTex

qhwang wrote: I have installed the Lyx. It's very easy and quick procedure. I found it's quite useful in my first trail. I am going to enjoy it. Thanks for your help, John and Sir Robin. Have fun, and let me know if you have any questions about Lyx. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:04 am, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 09 Dec 2003 8:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: I hope someone can help me with this, I'm totally newbie on Linux. I have a LAN that connects to the internet through a Gateway

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 4:00 pm, N. B. Day wrote: It looks like you have this setup: A dual-boot with Win98 and Linux A VMware installation of Win98 *inside of Linux* You can network between the VMware Guest OS Win98 and Linux if you (1) accepted the defaults at installation and (2)

Re: [newbie] Re: Where's my mail?

I have no idea why your messages aren't showing up, but you can find the messages in your home directory. All the mozilla stuff is in a directory in your home directory called .mozilla, so if you're browsing in Konqueror, set it to view hidden files; if you're doing this from the command

RE: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

Title: RE: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS Seems to me you are sharing the internet access with your lan from your computer. If that is the case did you use the share internet connection wizard found in MCC under Internet connection as I recall. If you are sharing the lan with your linux

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing /etc/hosts.allow and All:

[newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash Java

I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine doesn't. Can't seem to get Java and Flash working with Konq. Any help is greatly

[newbie] sylpheed-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk

9.2 rpms for sylpheed-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk are now avaiable from my site. This mdk release features a New plugin. sylpheed-claws-etpan-privacy-plugin-0.9.7claws-2.3mdk.i586.rpm I have been using a compiled version of this plugin most of the day and it is excellent. It can check both PGP/MIME and

Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash Java

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 04:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine doesn't. Can't seem to get

Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash Java

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 9:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're installed, but mine doesn't. Can't seem to get Java

Re: [newbie] Konqueror not using installed Flash Java

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday 10 December 2003 2:46 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm running MDK 9.2 with KDE 3.1.4. Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon use the installed Java and Flash with no problem. I thought Konqueror was supposed to use the same plugins if they're

[newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?

Hello, all! I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but no package named linuxconf appears. I then do urpmi -y linuxconf, but it

[newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly

Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be working properly - I couldn't ping anything outside my LAN. So I did a route add

Re: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:53, Steve Wechsler wrote: Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be working properly - I

Re: [newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:42, Eric Geater 11/26/03 wrote: Hello, all! I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but no

RE: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly

From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of H.J.Bathoorn On Wednesday 10 December 2003 23:53, Steve Wechsler wrote: Just installed Mandrake 9.0. When I went through the install procedure I told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. After the

Re: [newbie] Linuxconf... where is it?

On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 10:42 pm, Eric Geater 11/26/03 wrote: Hello, all! I have Mandrake 9.2. It's up and running, works very well, relatively few problems. However, I have been instructed to use Linuxconf to configure my external modem for dialing out. I type it in as root, but no

Re: [newbie] Can't get default gateway to work properly

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 05:53 pm, Steve Wechsler wrote: Just installed Mandrake 9.0. Why not 9.2 ? When I went through the install procedure I told it to use a static IP, and it then asked me for my default gateway. After the setup was completed, the default gateway didn't seem to be

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the problem concerning the PING in my LAN, by editing

Re: [newbie] VMWare and Samba

I have an update on the problem. Now when I try to access R-and-E in Windows I get a dialog that says: R-and-E is not accessible No permission for resource I think I might just need to run VMWare as root... sounds like a plan I suppose. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

Hi all, We were discussing ways of editing pdf files on another list, when one of the list members said he could import pdf files into kword. Whenever I try to do that, I get a message saying that kword can't import pdf files. However, kword's web site definitely lists the pdf import filter as

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the Drakconnect. I solved the

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip noop. I can`t ping outside my network, I think the problem is with my gateway address, but is correctly defined in the

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 08:06 pm, Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 13:45, Nestor Castro wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 12:32, Nestor Castro wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 10 Dec 2003 12:22 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: snip SNIP but this is

Re: [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise

Somebody scribbled about [newbie] Moving from windows to linux in the enterprise With the success of My Mandrake 9.0 Intranet server, My boss recently expressed an interest in moving our entire company's IT from Windows servers desktops to either: A) a Totally linux based solution. I favor

[newbie] no more mail

am I in the newbie mailing list? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] login display managers

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:48 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm having some odd problems with kdm and xdm on 9.2. If I configure the system to boot to kdm, it launches fine. After entering a username and password, the dialog box disappears, showing the default background, then the screen

Re: [newbie] Modem troubles

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:50 pm, deedee wrote: Did you figure that out? If not, open a terminal as a user (not as root) and type $ wine [path to]messagecleaner.exe Thank you deedee! The Windows program I installed (MessageCleaner) is

Re: [newbie] no more mail

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 04:21 pm, song wrote: am I in the newbie mailing list? This is the place. It is the only place anywhere near this place that looks like the place, so it must be the place. Welcome Aboard. : ) -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Connecting Zaurus 5500 to MDK 9.1

I'm trying to get my Zaurus 5500 to connect to my Mandrake 9.1 box (using the USB connection). I followed the instructions on some site, but it didn't seem to work. Anybody here made it work? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] How to run a Win program now in Wine?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Thanks to deedee's simple instructions, I've managed to install a Windows program into Wine (MessageCleaner...and it's working! :-)). At the moment, MC is still running since its installation. I'm wondering though...after I log out, then

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 02:09 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 10 December 2003 01:37 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi folks, The installation fiasco continues ... Last night I thought I would put RealPlayer 8 on my recently installed 9.2. However, having done so, when I

Re: [newbie] Complete failure

On Friday 05 December 2003 04:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot screen. I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away leaving d4x downloading a file. When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I

[newbie] Psion utilities for Mdk 9.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I continue to be a big fan of the Psion 5mx, and would love to have it operating with Mdk 9.2. I've found utilites for Mdk 8.2, both plptools and kpsion... Anyone have any suggestions? Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3