Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-26 Thread rikona
Hello Melissa, Sunday, December 21, 2003, 9:47:31 PM, you wrote: MR I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I MR compare to TB!). I agree. I was also looking for this. It is really too bad they don't have a linux version. -- rikona

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I can't remember if I saw this on this list or somewhere else, but what has been working well for me in the situation that you're describing is to su to root and run "update-menus -v" from the command line. HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I brought this subject up before but the

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Maureen
Guy Rouillier wrote: I brought this subject up before but the conversation veered off, so I thought I would raise it independently. Each time I install a multitude of packages, my menus seem to get reset to some tiny set. For example, the entire Packaging submenu is missing from

Re: Solved: [newbie] mandrake 9.2 USB configuration

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 02:34, Ramin M wrote: Apparantly the USB modules are already loaded in the running kernel and i did not have to recompile the kernel. I could configure and start using my multi-reader USB card under linux. I am not sure what i did! But i think it was just that i

Re: [newbie] Re: Desktop Icons

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 25 December 2003 22:36, E. Hines wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 01:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks Anne and 'e' but it woulld appear that do not have a /~/.kde/share/apps/kab directory. Will await the new year and see my Guru. I wonder if Erylon was thinking of

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 31 25 22:21 /dev/scd1 - scsi/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/cd Sergey Berezka Can you do text cd into cdrw?. You havent writer permissions. Altought, that isnt the problem that to you bring here.

[newbie] medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file:

2003-12-26 Thread et
Copy and pasted from cooker;;; The well known message: medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which creates a file list even if there is none on the server, and then try to update it

Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:09, Russ wrote: Thats my problem. I tried to edit it but didn't have any luck. I guess I am asking for a how to on how to edit it. Did you remember to /sbin/lilo after you edited? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/usr/share/doc/mandrake/en/Starter.html/index.html does not exist. Why don't I have

Re: [newbie] Webam chat in Mandrake

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 05:37, Carren Stuart wrote: Hi, I am currently using Eyeball Chat for webcam chat in Windows (actually, I use Eyeball for the webcam part and ICQ for chat as it has better chat options) Unfortunately there is not yet a linux version of Eyeball. Is there

Re: [newbie] Books for Newbies?

2003-12-26 Thread ronald
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 03:04, schreef Fig ('RL Cassidy'): Does any one have any experience with these or any other good book? All opinions are welcome, I can't wait to totally get rid of M$. Thanks in advance for any/all assistance. hey Richard, have you looked at rute? (LINUX Rute

Re: [newbie] rm-command

2003-12-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2003-12-25 at 14:03, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 December 2003 16:09, Paul wrote: On 12/25/2003 04:43 PM, Christoph Eckert wrote: Well, I never do a general ./* I always make ls -l and then tell rm to remove - for example - textfile*.txt. I once deleted the content

RE: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-26 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 00:51, Manolo Canga wrote: lr-xr-xr-x1 root

RE: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Josh
There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guy Rouillier Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:54 AM To:

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 12:01, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 12:13, Josh wrote: There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it. Josh IOW, try MandrakeUpdate Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation

2003-12-26 Thread Sergey Berezka
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 2:39 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM with scsi emulation On Friday 26 December 2003 12:01, John wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[newbie] win_d user rights

2003-12-26 Thread Sergey Berezka
What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka

Re: [newbie] win_d user rights

2003-12-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 26 December 2003 13:00, Sergey Berezka wrote: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka If win_d is ntfs it is unsafe to write to it. If it is fat32, then just making sure the 'user' is in the fstab

Re: [newbie] Named question...

2003-12-26 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:42:52 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] Named question...: When I shutdown under v9.2, I get a failed message when it comes to named. It actually gives 3 failed messages at different times. The

Re: [newbie] medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file:

2003-12-26 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:02:34 + et [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Copy and pasted from cooker;;; The well known message: medium 92_contrib uses an invalid list file: mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which creates a

[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

2003-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing problem with kde. It seems to boil down to fontmapping , meaning what kde thinks a font name should be and what ghostscript fonts thinks the fontname should be are sometimes two different things. So when, for arguements sake,

Re: [newbie] Named question...

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 08:39 am, Dick Gevers wrote: - On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 23:42:52 -0500, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - wrote about [newbie] Named question...: - - When I shutdown under v9.2, I get a failed message when it comes to - named. It actually gives 3 failed messages at different

[newbie] Samba 3

2003-12-26 Thread robin
Has anyone here used Samba 3.0.*? I've got smbclient3 working, but smbtar3 seems to be broken - I get error messages about an unacceptable user-password combination, even thought the same password works in smbclient3. Sir Robin -- Certitude is possible for those who only own one encyclopedia.

Re: [newbie] win_d user rights

2003-12-26 Thread robin
Sergey Berezka wrote: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? Sergey Berezka There are different ways to do it. umask=0 0 0 should do the trick. But unless you really need to, I recommend making changes via the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo

2003-12-26 Thread Russ
Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made

Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo

2003-12-26 Thread Jim Conner
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig

Re: [newbie] win_d user rights

2003-12-26 Thread Manolo Canga
El Viernes, 26 de Diciembre de 2003 14:00, Sergey Berezka escribió: What I need type in the fstab in order to write on write on my windows partion win_d from user not root ? diskdrake-change to expert mode-Select(with click) windows partition-options-umask=000 I m saying this of memory. I

[newbie] Re: Fw: GnuPG keys for Cooker packages not on keyserver?

2003-12-26 Thread Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 20:31:18 +, Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Fw: GnuPG keys for Cooker packages not on keyserver?: In connection with Anne Wilson`s request I put some changes on the twiki page:

Re: [newbie] 9.2 Installing many packages trashes menu

2003-12-26 Thread Ricks
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 26 December 2003 07:39 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 12:13, Josh wrote: There is an update that addresses this exact problem. I can't remember the exact update right now, but its rpm-something. You can't miss it.

[newbie] Mangled fonts in KDE and M9.1

2003-12-26 Thread John Richard Smith
I've been spending a lot time trying to fix the character spacing problem with kde. According to my M9.1 /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/lib/Fontmap.GS and, /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript/Fontmap have Helvetica mapped like this, /Helvetica

Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo

2003-12-26 Thread Russ
Did that, didn't work. :-( Went through the install with Mandrake again so I could use it's boot loader. Now Mandrake boots but no SuSE. Although I do not understand all of what came up on the screen when I tried to boot SuSE but, there were a couple of lines that I noticed. It said something

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded kernel-2.4.22.21mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm and kernel-source-2.4.22-21mdk.i586.rpm from a Mandrake ftp server. I burned them to a cd so that I can install them from init 3. Will somebody

[newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here:

Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 1:03 am, rikona wrote: Hello Melissa, Sunday, December 21, 2003, 9:47:31 PM, you wrote: MR I haven't seen *any* email client that really impresses me when I MR compare to TB!). I agree. I was also looking for this. It

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished, it said - installation failed, source Carroll EDU has invalid list file format. -What does this mean?

Re: [newbie] The Bat! vs M2 from Opera 7.23

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:26 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - In all seriousness; I still think it's a stupid name for an e-mail client, but - that's probably just me. - - Peace; - Charlie Nope, I've been trying to figure out why they call it TB as well (I guess its my medical background - I

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread ronald
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:35 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:15 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - - (3) The install of anjuta found everything on the carroll edu site, and - installed okay (anjuta runs.) But when it finished,

[newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems

2003-12-26 Thread magnet
I want to get my digital vcr working again but I am stumped on where to go next for troubleshooting. It all went wrong since I left Mdk 9.0 and did a fresh install of Mdk 9.2. I previously had a whole load of scripts I could just call up via cron to record various programs from my tv card. I

[newbie] Gateway config???

2003-12-26 Thread craig
Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Mahan Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom failure -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote:

Re: [newbie] xawtv and streamer recording sound problems

2003-12-26 Thread magnet
Doh! magnet selects muppet-mode Right, Just in case anyone else reads this in the archives, the answer is in the question, as I just discovered 2 minutes after posting this! mjpeg this wasn't installed!! urpmi mjpegtools Simple really! Streamer no longer hangs, exits and shuts off the sound

Re: [newbie] Missing 9.1 documentation

2003-12-26 Thread Mike Adolf
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 01:22, Mike Adolf wrote: Went to the Welcom to MandrakeGalaxy screen and press documentaiton icon but only got: Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory

RE: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread John
Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System

Re: [newbie] Gateway config???

2003-12-26 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 15:03, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I can get online. Is there a file that I need to add the gateway to? I've tried the network file in /etc/sysconfig Any suggestions Thanks /etc/sysconfig/network Parameters

Re: [newbie] cdrom failure

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 12:38 pm, John wrote: whack hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 26 December 2003 01:57 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: - Thanks Dark Lord and Ed (et) for the reminder. (-: - - I hate workarounds though, especially ones for things like this that shouldn't - be causing trouble in the first place. - - Peace; - Charlie Can't argue with that Charlie! :-) --

[newbie] nvidia dir?

2003-12-26 Thread Steve Hammond
I'm trying to upgrade my nvidia display driver (http://www.linuxgames.com/), and am misunderstanding the supposed directories: most instructions include the following command $ cd NVIDIA_kernel but on my comp that directory doesn't exist. What am I missing? If I have to create a new

[newbie] installing cable modem

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
Trying to install a cable modem and do not know how. The LAN connection is Integrated Intel Pro/1000 CT Desktop Connection and is on the motherboard. Downloaded the driver for the LAN connection from support.intel.com, the driver is for Linux. Installed it, so it should be completely installed.

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 11:46 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: I'm having difficulty understanding the proper way to configure the Software Media Manager (SMM). I was trying to install the latest Anjuta 1.2.0, and I found it here:

Re: [newbie] installing cable modem

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
Hi, the modem works fine. There are different reasons why I prefer to use the terminal instead of drakconnect or a program similiar to it. There are programs that I would use for configuring a LAN connection, though. Thanks for the help.

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 5:54 pm, Guy Rouillier wrote: snip The contrib directory on the mirrors have a synthesis.hdlist.cz file in them. In fact I think part of the reason that people have been getting warnings is there are two, a

Re: [newbie] Software Media Manager

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charlie Mahan wrote: snip Charlie, thanks for the detailed reply. After you pointed it out, I got back on gFtp and went back to Carroll EDU. I do indeed see hdlist.cz in pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/9.2/contrib/i586 and two sythesis files in

Re: [newbie] Help with video driver installation.

2003-12-26 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:46:41 + Steven Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install a video card driver for an Radeon 9800. When the driver installation begins an error message appears stating this: It is not something that you fix. You need to install fglrx using rpm -ivh

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-26 Thread Edward Wijaya
Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700, Charlie Mahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 25 December 2003 8:57 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Downloaded

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charles A Edwards wrote: Mandrake 9.2 rpm for xfce-4.0.2 are now available from my site. 4.0.2 is a bug-fix release. Changes: * Improve window manager responsiveness * Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel * More 64bit clean up * New translations added: Azerbaijani I have

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 27 December 2003 3:31 am, Edward Wijaya wrote: Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya The boot loader shouldn't make a difference Edward. The steps are the same, the only difference is Grub versus

Re: [newbie] xfce-4.0.2

2003-12-26 Thread Guy Rouillier
Charles A Edwards wrote: Mandrake 9.2 rpm for xfce-4.0.2 are now available from my site. 4.0.2 is a bug-fix release. Changes: * Improve window manager responsiveness * Various bug fixes in file manager, window manager and panel * More 64bit clean up * New translations added: Azerbaijani I have

Re: [newbie] Gateway config???

2003-12-26 Thread Shawn Protsman
Hi Craig, What do you have in /etc/sysconfig? [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysconfig]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network HOSTNAME=aragorn.foodoo.com NETWORKING=yes GATEWAY=172.16.1.1 On Friday, Dec 26, 2003, at 13:03 US/Central, craig wrote: Every time I boot up I have to assign my default gateway manually so I

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
From: Edward Wijaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source. Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:31:48 - Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700,

[newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2? From,

Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
From: Edward Wijaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing kernel and kernel source. Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:31:48 - Hi Charlie, Does this method works for GRUB as well? Regards Edward Wijaya On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:28:04 -0700,

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:24 pm, Steven Nelson wrote: Trying to install Macromedia Flashplayer. During installation it asks for the installation path of Mozilla. Will somebody tell me the installation path of Mozilla in Mandrake 9.2?

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-26 Thread Steven Nelson
Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? From,