Re: [newbie] Odd Konqueror config problem

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 6:40 pm, Paul Kaplan wrote: In recent days, the behavior of the Forward, Back and Up buttons in Konqueror (9.2, / KDE 3.1.3) has changed. Formerly, when I clicked on any of the buttons I would move to the previous or next page/directory viewed or up to the parent

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:34 pm, Lee wrote: I had Mandrake 9.2 running fine with two disks. (hda) has the root filesystem, (hdb) had only one directory I used for Samba. Both were ext3 fs. I suspected problems with hdb, but WDDiag test results were ok, so I wiped the hdb disk with zeros

Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's

2003-12-17 Thread Guy Rouillier
Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:10:49PM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 05:20, Todd Slater wrote: with some easy config, thunderbird 0.4 can launch url's. http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/archives/mozilla_thunderbird_04_released .html Thanks for that Todd... been

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800 Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and so you have to remove it there. I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb.

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Lee
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:09:03 -0800, Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am going to assume that it is reading about /dev/hdb1 from fstab, and so you have to remove it there. I would try to boot and do it interactively, so then when fstab is read, you can stop it from trying to get hdb.

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Boot from the MDK installation disk (CD1) and, at the splash screen hit F1, then at the prompt type rescue. This will boot the system from the cdrom and present you with a menu. Select mount partitions on /mnt, then go to console. From the console, cd to /mnt/etc and edit fstab to remove the

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:06 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going to boot/Drakboot then advanced and in the dropdown

Re: [newbie] Changing Permissions for Windows hd

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:00 am, Martin Brandt wrote: Partition magic here i come... whack Why pay for Partition Magic? Have you heard of parted? It's available in an RPM package for Mandrake. It should be in the 9.2 directory

Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start back up yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something to the effect of (sorry not in front of the machine now): No room on / [0]

[newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Genady Oliash
. 3COM 3C940 network card Mandrake 9.2. Asus P4P800. Linux, - , .

Re: [newbie] Can't login to X due to no room on root (/)

2003-12-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:19:59 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:24 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: Computer was working like a champ a few days ago. Tried to start backup yesterday and saw one of the messages during boot up say something tothe

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit /etc/sysconfig/bootsplash set SPLASH=no

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this same problem as well. Thx Jerry. Nevermind, Raffaele answered my question further

Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Glenn
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: ?? . ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ? ? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. ??? My, my. So

Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: ?? . ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ?? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. ??? Uh

RE: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Josh
Here's the best I can without understanding what your wrote The sk98lin drivers work fine with that nic, or you can go to asus' site and download the 3c2000 drivers -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Genady Oliash Sent: Wednesday, December

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be: mkinitrd -f

Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's

2003-12-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:31:34AM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: Todd Slater wrote: That choose profile is annoying. I use this script which I called /usr/bin/firebird to open links in a new tab. If you prefer, you can substitute new-window. Everything I use that launches URL's calls this

Re: [newbie] kroupware

2003-12-17 Thread Tango Echo
--- Lee Wiggers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This program is the last step in my office. Act! is the only thing running on VMware right now. Has anyone installed either server or client. Does the available rpm work on mdk? Should I dl the tarball and checkinstall an rpm?

[newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?

2003-12-17 Thread Ed Smits
Title: MS Project equivalent in Linux? Is there a Linux app that can read and write MS Project files? I looked at MrProject, it can't read an MPP file as far as I can see. I assume that it or another app can do an equivalent job of creating project plans, however I am forced to use Project

[newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Tango Echo
Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly die the other night. Worked fine the night before, but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. I checked the power cables and swapped the power supply for a known good one - still nothing. So that would be mobo then, I guess...

[newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet

2003-12-17 Thread maziar h
I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to recognize each other. there is no connection and I can't ping the other one. I have set everything including IP address and subnet mask correctly and they are on the same subnet. the interfaces are

Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)

2003-12-17 Thread Benjy
Hey there, Here are the following. /etc/resolv.conf searchhost localnameserver 165.21.100.88 nameserver 165.21.83.88 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yesGATEWAYDEV=wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running three without problems. Don't know which CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR

Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
Maziar; Is your network cable a crossover cable or is it a normal straight-through cable ? In order to connect 2 computers directly together ( without a hub), you'll need a crossover cable. You should be able to buy one at your local computer shop. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR ***

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:16 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly die the other night. Worked fine the night before, but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. I checked the power cables and swapped the power supply for a known good one -

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Shawn Protsman
Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a new Athlon XP proc. :-) On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 08:48 US/Central, Derek

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
Shawn; There's been a lot of problems with the nForce chipsets - both in Windows and Linux. The new nForce3 chipsets have also been causing problems. Since it seems to be a random problem which happens with various models and brands of motherboards, a lot of people are staying away from boards

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 3:28 pm, Shawn Protsman wrote: Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a new Athlon XP proc. :-)

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
Derek; I agree with you about the video cards, and installing the drivers for either the chipsets or video cards is certainly a requirement for proper operation. No Question there! It's just that I belong to a lot of groups which are hardware-related and the general concensus is to avoid nForce

Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's

2003-12-17 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 02:31:34AM -0500, Guy Rouillier wrote: Todd, I'm having trouble with the script below. I put in some echoes and ran the script from a terminal, and here is what I see: (1) If neither Thunderbird nor Firebird is running, the script successfully starts up Firebird

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 04:52 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2003 01:39 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] boot]# mkinitrd -f initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk This line should be:

[newbie] USB video capture: any experience?

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a super little gadget I picked up off eBay for a snip: a D-Link DU-CV USB Video Grabber. Works beautifully in M$ eXPee... ... anyone with experience of using it (or similar) under Mdk 9.x? This is a great list, I'm so thankful for the

[newbie] RAID 1 on MDK91: mkraid fail

2003-12-17 Thread Armando Roque Ferreira Pinto
Hi, I installing MDK91 with RAID 1 (soft) and report: mkraid fail Form partitioning: /boot 100mb ext3 primary / 2000mb raid1extend(hda5,hdb5) /home 72000mb raid1 extend (hda6,hdb6) /var 1000mb raid1 extend(hda7, hdb7) swap256 (=RAM) primary It's a

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Shawn Protsman
Lanman, Thanks for this news. I wasn't aware. Shawn On Wednesday, Dec 17, 2003, at 10:16 US/Central, Lanman wrote: Shawn; There's been a lot of problems with the nForce chipsets - both in Windows and Linux. The new nForce3 chipsets have also been causing problems. Since it seems to be a

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Tango Echo
--- Lanman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running three without problems. Don't know which CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that too!

Re: [newbie] fyi--thunderbird and url's

2003-12-17 Thread Eric Huff
#/bin/bash browserPath=/usr/local/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird url=$@ $browserPath -remote ping() # $? = false if running, true if not if [ $? = 0 ] ; then exec $browserPath -remote openURL($url,new-tab) else $browserPath $url fi exit This might work

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 15 December 2003 06:28 pm, robin wrote: ro I have wvdial set up to connect automatically at boot. The only problem ro is that if something like a powercut happens to kill my connection dead, ro when I restart it it complains that /dev/tty0 is busy, and all I can

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does HTH mean? Hope That Helps :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does HTH mean? Hope That Helps :-) Ah. I thought it meant Happy [something] Holidays! Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner

[newbie] Re: Audigy sound cards

2003-12-17 Thread Erix
robin wrote: 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 the only musician-friendly soundcard they have here - MIDI, jack and firewire

Re: [newbie] Re: Audigy sound cards

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Erix wrote: robin wrote: 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 the only musician-friendly soundcard they have here - MIDI, jack and firewire

Re: [newbie] Compex WLU11A with Mandrake 9.2 Detected but unable to surf the net. ( post #1)

2003-12-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:34 pm, Benjy wrote: Hey there, Here are the following. /etc/resolv.conf searchhost local nameserver 165.21.100.88 nameserver 165.21.83.88 /etc/sysconfig/network NETWORKING=yes GATEWAYDEV=wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 DEVICE=wlan0

Re: [newbie] Can't play DVD

2003-12-17 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 16 December 2003 7:25 pm, Patrick Coffey wrote: You were right! After adding the PLF software source and updating Mplayer it worked like a charm. Thank you very much! --pat whack You're welcome Patrick. I'm happy it worked since it was the

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 01:34 pm, robin wrote: ro What does HTH mean? ro ro Sir Robin ro oh, its one of those shortcuts, a way of saying Hope This Helps faster and with less typing... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
TE; If you decide to go with Asus, you'll have to pick another board that is designed for AMD CPU's. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet

2003-12-17 Thread al
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 03:34, maziar h wrote: I am trying to conncet two linux boxes together directly via their NIC cards but they are unable to recognize each other. there is no connection and I can't ping the other one. I have set everything including IP address and subnet mask correctly and

[newbie] Re: Re: Audigy sound cards

2003-12-17 Thread Erix
robin wrote: Didn't have what I was looking for, but thanks for the link. Are you in Turkey too? Yes. I'm a Turk living in Ankara. -- Erix. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 6:58 pm, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What does HTH mean? Hope That Helps :-) Ah. I thought it meant Happy [something] Holidays! Sir Robin Happy Tippling Holidays? Anne -- Registered

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 8:36 pm, Lanman wrote: TE; If you decide to go with Asus, you'll have to pick another board that is designed for AMD CPU's. Lanman They are good for AMD boards, too. This one is an A7V - quite old now - but I'd buy Asus again. Anne -- Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:37 pm, Lanman wrote: TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running three without problems. Don't know which CPU you have but this takes P4's. Also handles Hyper-Threading with the new P4's, so that Linux sees one P4 as two P4's. Works very well like that

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:48 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: My Abit KD7 Via KT400 based mobo works great. Can we have that one on the TWiki as well, please? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MotherBoards Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] USB video capture: any experience?

2003-12-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 5:54 pm, Paul Harrison wrote: I have a super little gadget I picked up off eBay for a snip: a D-Link DU-CV USB Video Grabber. Works beautifully in M$ eXPee... ... anyone with experience of using it (or similar) under Mdk 9.x? This is a great list, I'm so thankful

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Audigy sound cards

2003-12-17 Thread robin
Erix wrote: robin wrote: Didn't have what I was looking for, but thanks for the link. Are you in Turkey too? Yes. I'm a Turk living in Ankara. Güzel! Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia. - Robert Anton Wilson Robin Turner IDMYO Bilkent Univeritesi

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 08:16 am, Tango Echo wrote: Well, I think my motherboard decided to just randomly die the other night. Worked fine the night before, but in the morning didn't respond to the power switch. I checked the power cables and swapped the power supply for a known good

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
Anne; What would you like me to add, and how do I do it? Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 12/17/2003 at 10:36 PM Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 17 Dec 2003 2:37 pm, Lanman wrote: TE; The Asus P4S800 is very nice for Linux. Been running three without problems. Don't know

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread Lanman
On 12/17/2003 at 6:15 PM Dennis Myers wrote: I have two gigabyte mobos that work very well in linux using AMD Athlon processors. One is a GA-7vrx and the other is a K7 Triton 400 GA-7vax. They are very configurable and you can overclock with them I am told. I don't because they are already

Re: [newbie] Need mdk Motherboard recommendation...

2003-12-17 Thread jason pearl
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 08:28, Shawn Protsman wrote: Why would the N-Force boards be a problem? The Nvidia video cards can be an issue but I've not heard of any issues (to my limited knowledge) with the N-Force mobos. In fact, I'm thinking of picking one up with a new Athlon XP proc. :-)

Re: [newbie] Connection two mandrake boxes via ethernet

2003-12-17 Thread jason pearl
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 07:39, Lanman wrote: Maziar; Is your network cable a crossover cable or is it a normal straight-through cable ? In order to connect 2 computers directly together ( without a hub), you'll need a crossover cable. You should be able to buy one at your local computer shop.

Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread yankl
On Wednesday 17 December 2003 03:44, Genady Oliash wrote: ?? . ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? ? ? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. ??? The message is

Re: [newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?

2003-12-17 Thread Paul Kaplan
I looked hard about 6 months ago to find something, including installing MSP and some other commercial programs on Codeweavers Crossover Office. No luck. Codeweavers also isn't planning on working towards MSP compatability unless someone is willing to support them. There's apparently some

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-17 Thread mike
John Richard Smith wrote: mike wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I've got a B/W boot script back, It seems to work this way, When boosplash packages are installed, which happened in my case when I reinstalled deleted kernel from CD1 To get a text based boot script , Edit

[newbie] smbclient problem on 9.2 solved- It was the NIC

2003-12-17 Thread Pat Patterson
I have been trying to get samba fully functional for a couple of months now and it has been driving me crazy. My internet connection worked. The Samba server worked but for some unknown reason that I researched thoroughly, only some of the machines on my network could be reached from the linux

[newbie] C/C++ IDE Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Guy Rouillier
On the Mandrake 9.2 download installation, does anyone remember the name of the package containing a C/C++ IDE (other than KDevelop)? I saw it a couple days ago when I was installing some other packages and thought to myself Hey, that looks interesting, I'll have to come back and check it