Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 00:58, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Version 9.2 of Mandrake has been very solid here, I'm happy to say, but after leaving my system on for a couple of hours yesterday (well, okay - 5/6 hrs), X crashed. It did start right back up though - did not have to reboot or anything

Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: LX Was it connected to the net while you were gone? Er, yes...cable-modem here always on... :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] X died, questions...

2003-12-20 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 02:25, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 02:06 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: LX Was it connected to the net while you were gone? Er, yes...cable-modem here always on... :-) Is it possible that somebody could have tapped your X11 port 6000. LX --

[newbie] Mozilla in 9.2 - Tendency to Crash or Freeze

2003-12-20 Thread Graham Watkins
Morning Gang, Had 9.2 on my system for 2 weeks now and it works just about well enough to justify keeping it. (Though I did consider going back to 9.0 for a while). However, the Mozilla build 1.4 that comes with it is giving me problems. I have it set to open the mail program first and this

Re: [newbie] Starting DSL connection as user

2003-12-20 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 20:18:33 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Eckert) wrote about [newbie] Starting DSL connection as user: I guess it's a sily question, but anyway ;-) : The only silly question is the one that isn`t asked :-) How can I set my

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Lance Benton wrote: I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed Hardware: AMD XP 2600+/333 K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2) 1GB PC2700 DDR333 Maxtor 40GB ATA133

[newbie] compare 2 cd's

2003-12-20 Thread Johan
Hi, After copy of cd a to cd b... Is there a application to compare the 2 cd's after burning. To prove that a is true to b. I have 2 cdroms so it is possible to do it straight. Kindly some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User

Re: [newbie] Lost KDE...

2003-12-20 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 20 Dec 2003 2:16 am, Doug Roberts wrote: Greetings I have lost my KDE front end. I used Mandrake update to 'update' the X server to XFree86 4.3.x and now the X server won't run. When I used the Mandrake updater to do this it removed some directory, and I can't remember which

Re: [newbie] compare 2 cd's

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
Johan wrote: Hi, After copy of cd a to cd b... Is there a application to compare the 2 cd's after burning. To prove that a is true to b. I have 2 cdroms so it is possible to do it straight. Kindly some pointers would be appreciated. Thanks I think this should do it, test 4 Identicle Copied

[newbie] WIN XP and all that

2003-12-20 Thread John Richard Smith
If it's any consolation, A relative of mine has been provided a computer to complete a project with WIN XP. No say over choice of equipement, and software, the provider controls choice. The MOBO is a MS-7005(v1.X) Micro ATX Mainbord the onboard graphics chip is a SiS 651M-L / 650GM-l Series

Re: [newbie] Starting DSL connection as user

2003-12-20 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2003 08:58 schrieb Dick Gevers: I don`t think it is wise to change the permissions on files like that. All processes which only root can start, can also be assigned to users on a per person basis. For this exists

[newbie] no sound in 9.1

2003-12-20 Thread Linux
My computer is silent The mobo is an Intel D865GBF (www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf). I am using the onboard sound. It works fine under Windows98SE. I use Enlightenment, and I can enable sounds under E, but I don't hear anything. I can also see that esd is running if I run top or kpm.

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
It is getting better now as the lockupĀ“s are less frequent than before but still they happen. A few minutes ago, i was typing a message that the OS suddenly rebooted the machine with no apparant reason! Yes i am dual booting with windows. Regards, Ramin --- jason pearl [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
--- E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday Have any other users out there noticed that the /home/username directory isn't user writable after installation? I haven't seen that one before (and I installed 9.2 on a friends laptop last week). The lockups are happening less than

Re: [newbie] MS Project equivalent in Linux?

2003-12-20 Thread Michael Holt
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 18:40, Paul Kaplan wrote: 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

[newbie] X free security update problem

2003-12-20 Thread johnb51
Ran md update for the latest xfree update. Update had to remove the the old one to install the update. Everything seemed to download and install ok. When I start the computer now it stops at the command line login. After login and tryin to start kde I get the following error messages: execve

Re: [newbie] Lost KDE...

2003-12-20 Thread Doug Roberts
On Saturday 20 Dec 2003 2:16 am, Doug Roberts wrote: Greetings I have lost my KDE front end. I used Mandrake update to 'update' the X server to XFree86 4.3.x and now the X server won't run. When I used the Mandrake updater to do this it removed some directory, and I can't remember

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and headers. On mandrake that would be the kernel-source.rpm for

Re: [newbie] new nic and I'm online

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:41, Lance Benton wrote: Ok, I gave up trying to get my nvidia nforce (onboard) NIC to work, so I put in another NIC I had laying around. I'm now online and emailing this list from KMail. I appreciate everyone's assistance and especially the words of encouragement.

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 14:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 19 December 2003 5:48 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: snip One big issue if you are either trying to build from source using rpms or tar files is: You require the kernel source files and

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i think they are redhat rpm though. doesnt hurt to look

Re: [newbie] Flash player in Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-20 Thread Rob Blomquist
Excellent! I am glad to have helped you out! On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:55 am, you wrote: It functioned Obliged for the aid! Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 8:04 am, you wrote: which the package of installation of pluguim of the flash that you are using? You

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:24, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 20 December 2003 2:50 pm, jason pearl wrote: whack wait there is drivers at nvidia.com just not any drivers for the 64 bit version.. nforce3 drivers that are 32bit are available. i

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're available at all. Mostly special order stuff. yes they

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-20 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 19:10:58 -0800, E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own: That is msec at work. For the record, the entire /usr directory (and /usr subdirectories) should be owned by the root user. If

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread Lance Benton
On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around here. If they're

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread jason pearl
On Sat, 2003-12-20 at 15:57, Lance Benton wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote: I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly the content of the dexter sector of

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-20 Thread E. Hines
I am not advising everyone to turn off msec, but some people actually want to shut it off and they don't know how, and trying to uninstall msec gives a lot of dependency problems that you don't want to deal with. If you completely understand your system and it's security, and if you know what

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-20 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 20 December 2003 22:43, Charlie Mahan wrote: I think the whole point HarM is that he has no network connection until he installs the nvnet drivers. Actually my point was that; To get proper answers you need to ask the proper questions. I've no experience with nforce boards either

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-20 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 20 December 2003 22:49, Dick Gevers wrote: snip I am sorry, but I don`t understand this advice. Some time ago I came from Windows, because my complaint was, amongst others, it`s lack of security. Now I am finally on a secure system (Linux) and we get an advice to turn off

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-20 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 09:49 am, many eyes noted that Dick Gevers wrote: from running and replacing your permissions with what it feels are the proper ones for your directories. CAUTION: You should have an understanding of the workings of security and permissions if you disable msec. I am

Re: [newbie] new nic and I'm online

2003-12-20 Thread Ricks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 20 December 2003 04:41 pm, Lance Benton wrote: Ok, I gave up trying to get my nvidia nforce (onboard) NIC to work, so I put in another NIC I had laying around. I'm now online and emailing this list from KMail. I appreciate everyone's

[newbie] printer recognized, not working

2003-12-20 Thread Steve Hammond
Hey, I'm new to linux entirely and thus this listserv, too. Here's the problem: Mandrake 9.2 recognizes my printer (and it's functional scanner too), correct brand, driver, and all, yet everything fails to print. I've gone into the printer control center and made sure the brand matches (it

[newbie] speedtouch 330 usb on mandrake 9.1

2003-12-20 Thread S N A K E
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[newbie] Mozilla Flash problem

2003-12-20 Thread Brian Parish
Two 9.2 boxes. Both running Mozilla as included in the distro. Both have the flash files in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins On one, help about plugins shows flash and it works. On the other help about plugins shows no flash and of course it doesn't. Any suggestions on where else to look? TIA

Re: [newbie] printer recognized, not working

2003-12-20 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 20 December 2003 09:28 pm, Steve Hammond wrote: Hey, I'm new to linux entirely and thus this listserv, too. Here's the problem: Mandrake 9.2 recognizes my printer (and it's functional scanner too), correct brand, driver, and all, yet everything fails to print. I've gone into the

Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 freezes so often

2003-12-20 Thread Ramin M
I have heard that nvidia graphic cards usually work better under linux and mandrake already includes them in the power pack version like the ati drivers. Do you know about if they are trouble free unlike the ati cards? I am thinking to buy one and sell out my ati card. Financially this is not much

Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own

2003-12-20 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 01:16:43 +, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] Ownership changes on its own: Dick, my understanding is, that msec is a Mandrake add-on to the general linux security. Thank you, both E. Hines and Kaj,