Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-14 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:54 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: > I've got as far as adding text to layer, not sure which one though, but > I obviously don't understand how to make it move around. That's my main > problem, though I still don't really understand how to make sure you are

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-14 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:54 pm, using a keyboard, John Richard Smith turned thoughts into these words: > So I shouldn't select | X | use Dynamic text in Tool options window, > just leave |X| Antialliasing, there is a button box market "Text Tool" > but nothing happens when I click on it. Instea

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-14 Thread Joe
Miark wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after insta

Re: [newbie] triple boot with windows XP, 98 and mdk 9.2?

2004-01-14 Thread Miark
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 07:20:23 -0500, Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >With XOSL that i use, installing Windows at any time would not cause any > > problem! It is true that windows writes to MBR and wipes out whatever is > > there. However XOSL has a restore option! So after installin

[newbie] Windows Services For Unix--free

2004-01-14 Thread Miark
Used to be $99 and is now free. Shock of shocks. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/14/1738230 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread jason pearl
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 20:32:22 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:28 pm, jason pearl wrote: > >> So did you have to pay extra to(im assuming homelinux is dyndns.org) >get> them to reroute mail? I would rather have my own mail server then >to use> cox cabl

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:28 pm, jason pearl wrote: > So did you have to pay extra to(im assuming homelinux is dyndns.org) get > them to reroute mail? I would rather have my own mail server then to use > cox cable. thanks Depends on how much you want to depend on it. I don't pay extra and

[newbie] Interesting Interview with RMS

2004-01-14 Thread JoeHill
Quote: "Right now the FCC in the US is considering a proposal to prohibit free software from receiving digital video transmissions. See www.publicknowledge.org. That would be the first ever specific prohibition on free software for a specific job. But there are already laws which have that effect

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread jason pearl
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 09:21:19 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:32 am, jason pearl wrote: > >> do you have to pay to use that domain name to get it through.. is >your> port 25 blocked??? > >No. My port 25 IS blocked, at least for outgoing traffic on po

Re: [newbie] Im excited hehe

2004-01-14 Thread Charles Ramsey
I want to thank you for recommending this WONDERFUL program. I had reached my limit with Evolution. Sometimes it worked, other times it did not. Sometimes it would crash upon execution, sometimes it wouldn't close. Thank you again. Charles Ramsey On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 08:19:11 -0500 Lee Wigge

Re: [newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 13:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: > Hello. > I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. > Could you please give me some tips on how to do it ? Start here http://www.gimp.org/ You can also urpmi the development version (unstable but nice new GUI ) > > TIA Want to buy you

[newbie] gimp 2.0pre1 compilation

2004-01-14 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hello. I'd like to compile and install the latest gimp. Could you please give me some tips on how to do it ? TIA -- josenildo marques icq #289971493 homepage http://cyb.ezdir.net registered linux user #341648 * Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Osc

RE: [newbie] Video refresh very slow (Mandrake 9.2)

2004-01-14 Thread Steven Vacca
The video adapter card was bad. Go figure. Anyway, thanks for the help. ShutEye Thinkin -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 9:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Video refresh very slow (Ma

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread LtCdData
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 H:31, Aron Smith wrote: i got that 2 days ago... the problem ended up being the line in the /etc/modules.conf file for the sound card somehow vanished, in my case i have a soundblaster128 card so i added " alias sound-slot-0 es1371 " this fixed it )) LtCdData > On Wed, 2

Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 6:24 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: > SNIP > > > To install the Alsa driver > > > > > > 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not > > > already installed) > > > > Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. > > > > > >> 2/ Make a

[newbie] How do I restore original URPMI.cfg settings

2004-01-14 Thread cosnet1
In an effort to get a steady and current stream of Mandrake updates for version 9.2 I was testing different mirrors and settings. Anyway, I got it so mucked up at some point that I did the wrong thing.. I did the urpmi.removemedia -a which of course deleted everything.. I would like to restore

Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 6:24 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: SNIP > > To install the Alsa driver > > > > 1/ Install the alsa-utils, alsamixergui, and newt packages (If not > > already installed) > > Did that..MCC and urpmi says that all those packages are installed.. > > >> 2/ Make a backup copy of /etc/m

Re: [newbie] Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > > > > > Have you checked the a

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Poogle
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 14:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? > > Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any > drive, until I ran into some problems wit

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Ian Trickett
Set the CD jumper to cable select and try again Ian - Original Message - From: "S Wieland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 11:50 PM Subject: [newbie] Cdrom problem > I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my > mandr

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 06:12, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: > > > Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? > > Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any > drive, until I ran into some problems w

[newbie] Running programs at startup

2004-01-14 Thread Warren Post
I am trying to understand the different ways that programs can be run at startup. What has sparked my interest is that I am experimenting with different windows managers, yet I would like some basic things (xmms, xscreensaver, gkrellm, etc.) to be launched upon entry into any window manager. Yet as

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 07:37, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > ** snip** > > > > HI again > > > > > > > > Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little > > > > busy. > > > > > > > > When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control > > > > center. aRTs was turned off, so I

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 14 Jan 2004 3:40 pm, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings fro

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Doug Roberts
> On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center? > > > You should have aRts start at bootup,

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Doug Roberts
> > > ** snip** > > > HI again > > > > > > Sorry to take so long getting back to you, but I been a little > > > busy. > > > > > > When logged in as root I looked at aRTs settings in KDE control > > > center. aRTs was turned off, so I turned it back on and got this > > > error message when trying to

Re: [newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 14:39, Angus Auld wrote: > Greetings, I have just installed my new CDRW in my Dell running > Mandrake 9.1. > > I am unsure how to properly configure my /etc/fstab to enable > mounting this device. > I have automount disabled, and when I try mounting my cdrom > device I

[newbie] CDRW install, need help w/fstab

2004-01-14 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I have just installed my new CDRW in my Dell running Mandrake 9.1. I am unsure how to properly configure my /etc/fstab to enable mounting this device. I have automount disabled, and when I try mounting my cdrom device I get the following error: "mount: only root can mount /dev/hdc on

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:32 am, jason pearl wrote: > do you have to pay to use that domain name to get it through.. is your > port 25 blocked??? No. My port 25 IS blocked, at least for outgoing traffic on port 25 So, I have to smarthost my mail through my ISP, basically, Postfix relays

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 07:43 am, Aron Smith wrote: > Cable Select? ..has that position ever worked for anything? Funny you bring that up. I used to be a disinclined to EVER use CS for any drive, until I ran into some problems with my western digital drives on my raid controller on my SOY

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 04:09, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: > > but my cd rom is not detected in the > > bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up > > and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. > > You might want to

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread jason pearl
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:03:26 -0500 Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:40 pm, jason pearl wrote: > >> so should we get this email... > >After the recent discussion concerning anti-spam measures, I got to >thinking that I might have figured out why the Mandrake m

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer - works!

2004-01-14 Thread Frank Bax
At 06:59 AM 1/14/04, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > BrowseInterval 0 > Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:50 pm, S Wieland wrote: > but my cd rom is not detected in the > bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up > and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. You might want to doublecheck the jumpers. If they are set to cable select, y

Re: [newbie] Test Message

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 11:40 pm, jason pearl wrote: > so should we get this email... After the recent discussion concerning anti-spam measures, I got to thinking that I might have figured out why the Mandrake mailing-list server was dropping my emails when they originated from my postfix sy

Re: [newbie] 9.2 - Cannot setup printer

2004-01-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 13 January 2004 10:59 pm, Frank Bax wrote: > /etc/cups/cupsd.conf > BrowseInterval 0 > Browsing Off Should have some additional lines: LogLevel Info TempDir /var/spool/cups/tmp Port 631 Browsing On #(You need to turn browsing on if you want the autodetect stuff to work on #other netwo

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 01:54, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control cent

Re: [newbie] Cdrom problem

2004-01-14 Thread John Richard Smith
S Wieland wrote: I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Re: Lack of sound in KDE

2004-01-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 14 January 2004 02:34, Doug Roberts wrote: > > On Friday 09 January 2004 19:07, Doug Roberts wrote: > > > Any other ideas? Anyone? > > > > Shot in the dark - > > > > Have you checked the aRts settings from kde's control center? > > You should have aRts start at bootup, running soundse

Re: [newbie] Another fonts question

2004-01-14 Thread Charlie
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:17 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote: > >Open a pic and click the "T" and all will become evident, text colour, > > fonts installed etc.. > > > >Charlie. > > > > OK, Charlie, > I found that one yesterday. see snapshot 278.png > > It's good, but has one drawb