Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread Graham Watkins
Ronald J. Hall wrote: My question is, what is the deal with arts??? Half my games and apps have to be started like this now - why was it changed? :-( Over to you Bryan. -- Graham Watkins On the whole, I preferred cats to women because cats seldom if ever used the word relationship.(Kinky

Re: [newbie] Sound and Video Update

2003-12-12 Thread Teilhard Knight
Thanks a lot Brian. I will have to look in a hardware USENET group to hopefully get help about the DVD contrivances. Teilhard. On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 07:44, Teilhard Knight wrote: First, I would like to thank all those who answered my post Sound and Video On the video side, I have

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Stillborn Under 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 12 December 2003 02:25 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Ronald J. Hall wrote: My question is, what is the deal with arts??? Half my games and apps have to be started like this now - why was it changed? :-( Over to you Bryan. I am the wrong person to ask. I don't run 9.2 because of

[newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Johan
Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something there. Looking in the *man mount* it seems I done all - maybe missed some? Thanks -- Johan May

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int,

[newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-12 Thread Alexandre Aractingi
Hi all, As I installed mdk 9.2 on a brand new desktop, I totally forgot to make a swap partition. The installer didn't complain and everything looks fine now, but I'm still wondering if it might be an annoyance for later? (The machine has 512 Mo of RAM) Thanks, -- Alexandre Aractingi [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Boot hangs on startup (video problem?)

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 02:31, Steve Wechsler wrote: -Original Message- How can I change the menu so it defaults to linux. Steve Go into MCC (K - configuration - configure your computer) and choose boot and then drakboot. Then click configure and OK it. Chose the option (linux)

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 12 December 2003 07:43, Johan wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something there. Looking in the *man mount* it seems I

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-12 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:53, Nestor Castro wrote: whaang (chainsaw snipping;)) * Thanks Again for your time and patience.

Re: [newbie] Urpmi database locked

2003-12-12 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 15:45:37 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 Dec 2003 12:24 pm, Brandon Erik Bertelsen wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: I closed a shell in the middle of an urpmi update. (Don't ask) Now I get 'urpmi database locked' when I attempt to update.

Re: [newbie] Installing with a (new) second Hard drive

2003-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
j wrote: Hi there, I know this question has been asked under different titles, but believe me, I could not find a CLEAR answer: I am about to install Mandrake 9.2 and I got a new HDD thinking to disturb as little as possible my existing XP. I have currently: Primary Master: C and D drives (D

Re: [newbie] mandrake default kernel source

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 05:33, babar haq wrote: Hi Can someone mail me the default kernel version in mandrake 9.2.Actually i need to download the kernel-source in office and i forgot to bring the kernel version from home. Can some one mail me the link i can download the kernel source.

Re: [newbie] Font spacing in kword in M9.1

2003-12-12 Thread John Richard Smith
kword character spacing === After some experimenting I found out, kword sends a printfile to another printer model with correct character spacing,while the same file to my printer does not. While OTOH, Mozilla sends files correctly to my printer without character spacing

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-12 Thread Martin Brandt
Installed mozilla and then reinstalled java but im still having the same problem. It must be some little thing im doing wrong. I got it working when i was using mozilla 1.5 on red hat 9.0 a month ago. Tried look for Kaffe but too many file needed for the rpm so i think ill keep trying to get

[newbie] Audigy sound cards

2003-12-12 Thread Robin Turner
Does anyone know if the kernel shipped with 9.2 contains drivers for Audigy 2 / Platinum soundcards, or will I have to compile my own kernel module if I get one of these? Sir Robin -- The other major kind of computer is the Apple, which I do not recommend, because it is a wuss-o-rama New-Age

[newbie] Fitness/Diet software?

2003-12-12 Thread Tango Echo
Hi all, Do any of you know of a good fitness/diet software program that's run in Linux, preferably Mandrake? I'm surprised that to this point I have been unable to find such a simple program. Something like fitday.com were you can track what you eat, and produce chart graphs of weight, food,

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
as you should now, the swap partition acts like an extra ram storage... When you run applications, they alocates them code into the ram memori, but if you have varius applications running at the same time. (usualy... like network handler, video handler,database servers, and so) Each one of them

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-12 Thread Alexandre Aractingi
Thanks for your explanations! I'll create a new partition for swap use. Can I then run diskdrake to tell my OS to use it, or do I have to manually enter it in /etc/fstab? Thanks, Alex Le ven 12/12/2003 à 15:45, cdrack a écrit : as you should now, the swap partition acts like an extra ram

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread emnej
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 05:43 schreef Charlie: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586.

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread Tango Echo
--- H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 15:20, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:00:58 +0100 Specifically I'm having troubles with multi-page PDF's not single page one's. I'm sorry if this was already covered in the thread, but I was not completely

Re: [newbie] Forgot the swap partition...

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
If you like the GUI, you can use the Mandrake Control Center to assign the mount point or create the new swap partition. When you finish the MCC will ask you if you whant to whrite the changes to the fstab file. And allso if you have created one swap partition and if you now the adecuated code

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-12 Thread Nestor Castro
Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 12:01 pm, Nestor Castro wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 11:53, Nestor Castro wrote: whaang (chainsaw snipping;)) * Thanks

Re: [newbie] Installing with a (new) second Hard drive

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
The only thing you have to be aware is were to install LILO, because if you install on the second master disk, and if youre computer BIOS Setup indicates that the boot must be done with the first master disk, then you will never see the LILO boot manager.. and you will be directed to youre

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-12 Thread Adolfo A. Bello B.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 09:56:50AM +0100, Nestor Castro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jncasmed]# route -n_ _Kernel IP routing table_ _Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface_ _192.168.147.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1_ _127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo_

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 17:51, Tango Echo wrote: find out how/if this is possible. Currently I have a document I'm scanning in via Kooka but am only able to send each individual page to a PDF file. Hence, a 5 page docuement produces 5 individual files instead of a single PDF file =/

[newbie] Naming devices

2003-12-12 Thread Ivn Velamazn Gonzlez
Does any body knows why my devices, which at 9.1 was named hda, hdb, etc. now are named ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 and so on? It's drivin' me nuts! My ATAPI CD recorder didn't worked, then I discovered it had to be SCSI emulated, and K3B suggested me to do the same whit the CD/DVD

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Johan
On Friday 12 December 2003 12:04, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 07:43, Johan wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write

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

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 11:55 am, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi Charlie and all who have offered assistance. Ti is truly appreciated. I'm sorry I'm so late in responding but I've been unusually busy this past week. Busy is good. So are questions

Re: [newbie] Audigy sound cards

2003-12-12 Thread robin
Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 08:11, Robin Turner wrote: Does anyone know if the kernel shipped with 9.2 contains drivers for Audigy 2 / Platinum soundcards, or will I have to compile my own kernel module if I get one of these? Sir Robin You don't have to compile anything. Go to

Re: [newbie] Fitness/Diet software?

2003-12-12 Thread robin
Tango Echo wrote: Hi all, Do any of you know of a good fitness/diet software program that's run in Linux, preferably Mandrake? I'm surprised that to this point I have been unable to find such a simple program. Something like fitday.com were you can track what you eat, and produce chart graphs of

Re: [newbie] Audigy sound cards

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 1:38 pm, robin wrote: whack Thanks (and thanks to Charlie) - I reckon I'll go for the Audigy 2, then. I was originally going to get a Turtle Beach card, but they seem impossible to get hold of in Turkey. The Audigy 2 is

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
you can ping to the other boxes of youre net, only if you edit youre /etc/hosts file and add the ip address and names of the other boxes of youre net. Cdrack. --- Nestor Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Adolfo Bello wrote: On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 22:43, Dennis Myers wrote: On

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 12 December 2003 21:10, deedee wrote: This is certainly useful information for when I get multiple-page faxes that are sent as individual pages. However, my applications have Print to PDF as an option from the print drop-down menu. If the file has multiple pages, it produces a

Re: [newbie] Fitness/Diet software?

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
In Linux you can find almost any kind of software, no mather how easy or weird it must be. So here are some of them http://freshmeat.net/projects/dmak/?topic_id=71%2C266 http://freshmeat.net/projects/weight/?topic_id=861 Of course from a great site for Linux proyects www.freshmeat.net

Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the space like%20this%20for%20example.pdf -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_

Re: [newbie] XFontsel

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:59:49 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for xfontsel, which apparently comes with XFree86-tools, but I cannot find a Mandrake package with urpmi or even rpmfind.net. Anyone know where I can snag this? urpmi X11R6-contrib hth Jerry -- _||_

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:38 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something there. Looking in the *man

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread cdrack
have you tryed chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/backup ? (beeng root of course) Cdrack. --- Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:38 +0200 Johan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 What else need I put in

Re: [newbie] PDF Import Filter for KWord

2003-12-12 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 9:18 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: if you hadn't noticed: tab is your biggest friend on the command line:) second biggest. man -k pdf Outside of a dog... -- Richard Urwin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread robin
cdrack wrote: have you tryed chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/backup ? (beeng root of course) Normally msec will change the permissions back. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi Ankara 06533 Turkey

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 12 December 2003 23:03, robin wrote: cdrack wrote: have you tryed chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/backup ? (beeng root of course) Normally msec will change the permissions back. Sir Robin Yes, and on my system (msec=high) it won't even allow the chmod, but snarls back at me :

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

2003-12-12 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi again Charlie. You said: OK, *which* freakin' directions? (g The command line, right click the K button or??? . Actually I opted for the right click on the K button. My reasons were basically two. 1- Working from the command line I would have had no idea how to undo what I did if it

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

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 5:02 pm, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi again Charlie. You said: OK, *which* freakin' directions? g The command line, right click the K button or??? . Actually I opted for the right click on the K button. My reasons

Re: [newbie] PROBLEM WITH IP ADDRESS

2003-12-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 12 December 2003 04:53 am, Nestor Castro wrote: Adolfo A. Bello B. wrote: snip with hedge clippers didn't need a chain saw You have no default gateway defined. Use the route command to add it. route add default gw 192.168.0.1 dev eth1 (check the real ip address of the

Re: [newbie] Tax software

2003-12-12 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 12 December 2003 08:26 pm, Chris wrote: I just cheked the site out, looks pretty good. Did you e-file or send in the forms last year? I e-filed, have for about the last 3 years. My older brother used to work as an auditor for the IRS and he told me once that e-filed returns

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-12 Thread Eric Huff
I tested, and had Ed (my friend) test java function by going to this page: http://www.expertit.co.uk/support/browsertest/ That is a cool link. thanks for posting it, eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-12 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 12 December 2003 10:02 pm, Eric Huff wrote: I tested, and had Ed (my friend) test java function by going to this page: http://www.expertit.co.uk/support/browsertest/ That is a cool link. thanks for posting it, eric You're welcome.

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread emnej
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Java plug-in probs

2003-12-12 Thread Eric Huff
I tested, and had Ed (my friend) test java function by going to this page: http://www.expertit.co.uk/support/browsertest/ That is a cool link. thanks for posting it, eric You're welcome. It's amazing what you accumulate from Google searches over the years, isn't it? g

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread E. Hines
On Friday 12 December 2003 04:09 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 12 December 2003 23:03, robin wrote: cdrack wrote: have you tryed chmod -Rf 777 /mnt/backup ? (beeng root of course) Normally msec will change the permissions back. Sir Robin Yes, and on my system