[newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 seconds before the windows are redrawn. Programs start up very slowly then,

Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 07:10 pm, many eyes noted that Paul wrote: Hi all, Since about a week (since the last massive outbreak of virusses?) I sometimes experience a very strange system slowness in responding. Not constantly, but sometimes with switching desktops it can take upto 10 seconds

Re: [newbie] Intel obviously didn't learn from MS

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
Josenildo Marques disseminated the following: There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unkowns. That is to say, there are things we know we don't know. But, there are also unknown unknowns. These are things we don't know we don't know.

Re: [newbie] Strange system slowness

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
On 01/31/2004 11:59 AM, Charlie wrote: Run top and see if there is something running in the background. Tried that and found nothing strange there. I did find something though. I run a program called mailfilter just before I pull e-mail. That checks the headers of all the mails on the server

[newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Andr Tapxure Gabriel
Hi there I want to know how to make the system mount automatically some volumes... When the system starts, it mounts the Windows disk automatically... Thanks Andre Tapxure Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] kernel error/no swap??

2004-01-31 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I wonder if someone could tell me just what this kernel error message means? Am I running w/o a swap? * var/log/kernel/errors: Jan 25 12:18:17 localhost kernel: ide: late registration of driver. Jan 25 12:18:17 localhost kernel: Swsusp 1.0.3:

Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Paul
On 01/31/2004 01:09 PM, Andr Tapxure Gabriel wrote: Hi there I want to know how to make the system mount automatically some volumes... When the system starts, it mounts the Windows disk automatically... You need to edit /etc/fstab for that. Only root can do that, so you need to 'su' first.

[newbie] mailbox thunderbird

2004-01-31 Thread emnej
I have a dual boot system with winxp (fat32) and mdk92. Thunderbird is installed for e-mail both under linux and under windows. My question is if it would be possible to access the same mailbox with Thunderbird when working with the windows version and with the linux version. Thanks for helping,

Re: [newbie] Transcode

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:52:35 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: Anyway, I put everything back together, and I've been running mprime for the past 6 -7 hours, no errors, no problems. Could it be that the improperly seated NIC was the cause of all the instability? I'm hopin' so,

Re: [newbie] kernel error/no swap??

2004-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 31 January 2004 07:59 am, Angus Auld wrote: Thanks for the replies. I checked with the command, swapon -s and also through webmin, and it appears that my swap is indeed on and being used. I learned something today :-)thanks for that! Best regards. --Angus Now run

Re: [newbie] nfs icon on desktop

2004-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 31 January 2004 09:52 am, Phil Savoie wrote: -Hi All, - -I did a network install with Mandrake 9.2 and have an annoying feature I -would like to turn off. Every time I add software, my laptop wants to get -software from my server and mount the appropriate remote directory (good

Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you and mount the -partitions, just be careful not to change any partitions or format anything. -At the end, it will ask you if you want to write the changes to fstab, just -say

Re: [newbie] sound

2004-01-31 Thread Cane Kostovski
In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do it - Original Message - From: P J Scott [EMAIL

[newbie] AlsaMixer settings not saved after reboot

2004-01-31 Thread Cane Kostovski
Hello, I have a Sound Blaster Live! sound card. I didn't have sound until I openned a Konsole, SU, and ran the command alsamixer and increased the volume on the Master Column and hit the m key to unmute it. Now it works great, BUT when I reboot, it mutes again. How can I save the ALSA Mixer

[newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread RickS
Hello, I got my sidewinder joystick and SBlive gameport working with bascule's help by adding: emu10k1-gp joydev to modules. .. and from googling found this added it to modules.conf... alias char-major-13 analog rebooted .. then... $modprobe joydev then... $modprobe sidewinder in that

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in cooker, even in 9.x days. It's called 'urpmi.setup' Currently

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread bascule
you need to list the modules in /etc/modules lines like: alias char-major-13 analog go into /etc/modules.conf i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog module on my machine bascule On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 6:04

Re: [newbie] sound

2004-01-31 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:42 am, Cane Kostovski wrote: In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you should now get sound, BUT I have the problem that when I reboot my computer, I lose the un-muted setting and need to re-do

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread RickS
On Saturday 31 January 2004 01:56 pm, bascule wrote: you need to list the modules in /etc/modules lines like: alias char-major-13 analog go into /etc/modules.conf i'd try without adding that line alias... line first, just to check if it's necessary, i don't have it for loading the analog

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-31 Thread Viking Skull
Yep. It's using SCSI emulation. I really have no idea why this isnt working. Someone PLEASE help! From: Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:45:11 -0500 To know if you CD-ROM

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2

2004-01-31 Thread Viking Skull
Yep. It's using SCSI emulation. I really have no idea why this isnt working. Someone PLEASE help! From: Ramin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CD-ROM drive freezes Mandrake 9.2 Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 01:45:11 -0500 To know if you CD-ROM

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:50 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in cooker, even in

[newbie] Sound Configuration

2004-01-31 Thread John
Hello I have been following the different sound threads trying to get MD9.2 sound working with no success yet. Hardrake lists the following info.:master riptide pci audio device; module unknown. I have dl'd the driver from linuxant.com and installed. Boot-up shows sound device as being ok. In

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread bascule
rick, when i said put the alias line in modules.conf but try without it i didn't mean to imply that you didn't need a reference to analog in /etc/modules, cos you do! the alias line simply tells the kernel that the module analog is the one that controls devices that have that major and minor

[newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...

2004-01-31 Thread Terence Golightly
List, Below is an alias of the command I used in an attempt to burn the mdk 9.2 install cd iso. When I used mkcd on previous attempts to burn an iso to discs of questionable quality I got the error at the bottom as well. Question: What caused the failure? If it needs to use overburn, I

Re: [newbie] Sound Configuration

2004-01-31 Thread Christoph Eckert
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2004 21:23 schrieb John: Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get info. Try to run alsaconf from a konsole window. Before, make a backup of /etc/modules.conf. Gruß / regards

Re: [newbie] Easy Urpmi

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 11:50 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:27:54 -0600 Tom Brinkman disseminated the following: What I ment was, would there be a way to put the Easy Urpmi interface or concept *into* cooker. Better than Easy Urpmi has long been in

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 03:05 pm, Margot wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: Margot wrote: Checked the files you suggested - all were installed except the first one, and when I tried to get it this was the result: unable to access

Re: [newbie] urpmi.setup

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
Joe wrote: It has come to my attention that all of the benefits of easyurpmi have been included in mandrake in the form of urpmi.setup (thanks Tom). How unfortunate that this great tool is not installed by default, and placed in the configuration menu for KDE!! How many newbies would benefit

Re: [newbie] Sound Configuration

2004-01-31 Thread John
Christoph Eckert wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2004 21:23 schrieb John: Would appreciate any help on what to do or where to get info. Try to run alsaconf from a konsole window. Before, make a backup of /etc/modules.conf. Gruß / regards Hello

RE: [newbie] sound

2004-01-31 Thread P J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cane Kostovski Sent: 31 January 2004 17:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you

RE: [newbie] sound

2004-01-31 Thread P J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cane Kostovski Sent: 31 January 2004 17:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] sound In a console, type alsamixer using the left and right arrow get to the MASTER column press m to unmute it you

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread RickS
On Saturday 31 January 2004 03:21 pm, bascule wrote: rick, when i said put the alias line in modules.conf but try without it i didn't mean to imply that you didn't need a reference to analog in /etc/modules, cos you do! oop - my mistake 8) although, thats what I obviously dont fully

Re: [newbie] wma to mp3

2004-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 31 January 2004 00:40, anton wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 05:56, anton wrote: IIRC you need to go to WAV first, and then to MP3. I remember a thread about going from OGG to mp3 and the consensus was that even apps that said they went direct actually just

Re: [newbie] Persistent mount

2004-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 31 January 2004 17:35, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 31 January 2004 08:48 am, Greg Meyer wrote: -You can use diskdrake in MCC to set up the mount points for you and mount the -partitions, just be careful not to change any partitions or format anything. -At the end, it will

Re: [newbie] nfs icon on desktop

2004-01-31 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 31 January 2004 14:52, Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, I did a network install with Mandrake 9.2 and have an annoying feature I would like to turn off. Every time I add software, my laptop wants to get software from my server and mount the appropriate remote directory (good thing).

[newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'. Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]# urpme mldonkey

Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote: Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'. Now, when I try to remove the packages (try a reinstall), I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] joehill]#

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread bascule
ok, you got me, i'm not sure, here are my two files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules scsi_hostadapter emu10k1-gp ns558 analog joydev the ns558 is for a second gameport so you don't need this, you will need the sidewinder module but you already have that listed [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 + Margot disseminated the following: Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'. Now, when I try to remove

Re: [newbie] module.conf loading joystick drivers question ?

2004-01-31 Thread RickS
On Saturday 31 January 2004 05:54 pm, bascule wrote: ok, you got me, i'm not sure, here are my two files: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bascule]$ cat /etc/modules scsi_hostadapter emu10k1-gp ns558 analog joydev the ns558 is for a second gameport so you don't need this, you will need the sidewinder

Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread Margot
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:54:57 + Margot disseminated the following: Just got my server machine back up and seemingly running stable, so I install MLDonkey and the GUI, fire up a VNC desktop, and try to run 'mldonkey', to which I get 'command not found'. Now, when I try to remove

[newbie] Router Question

2004-01-31 Thread aronsmith
OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) This is an old compaqbox 500 Mhz and will have 128Mb Ram (I know its a lot for a firwall but

Re: [newbie] Sound Configuration

2004-01-31 Thread aronsmith
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:23, John wrote: Hello I have been following the different sound threads trying to get MD9.2 sound working with no success yet. Hardrake lists the following info.:master riptide pci audio device; module unknown. I have dl'd the driver from linuxant.com and

Re: [newbie] user menu items not available

2004-01-31 Thread aronsmith
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 13:40, Margot wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 03:05 pm, Margot wrote: Erylon Hines wrote: On Sunday 25 January 2004 01:28 pm, Margot wrote: Margot wrote: Checked the files you suggested - all were installed except the first one, and

Re: [newbie] Router Question

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right ones?) Yep, you want

Re: [newbie] Unable to remove package?!

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 23:57:12 + Margot disseminated the following: This is the first time I've ever encountered this in over 3 years of using Mandrake :-\ How very odd! I'm not familiar with mldonkey, I have no idea what it does, but could it be that it is still running, or

Re: [newbie] Router Question

2004-01-31 Thread aronsmith
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 16:56, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover

Re: [newbie] Router Question

2004-01-31 Thread Lee B.
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:52:28 -0800 aronsmith disseminated the following: OK.. I got off my dead arse and bought a small hard drive some ram and 3 NICs for the spare box I want to make a firewall/router out of it I also bought 3 non crossover cables (did I get the right

Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the default window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default window

Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager

2004-01-31 Thread Lee B.
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:15:53 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: When using VNC KDE always loads. I would like to try IceWM and use it with VNC. Perhaps if I set the default window manager to be IceWM, then VNC will load it? If so, can someone tell me how to set the default

Re: [newbie] Cron

2004-01-31 Thread Dan Gordon
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 17:59:20 -0800 (PST) Job Evers wrote: Argh. Why doth my cron not work like I want it to? I have the following set up as an alarm to go off at 630 AM. The .alarm script works when I run it from the command line. $ more .alarm: #!/bin/sh xmms

Re: [newbie] Fun and Totally useless.

2004-01-31 Thread jimdawson
I put the following script in my .kde/Autostart directory: #!/bin/sh echo -e Message of the day:\n\n`/usr/games/fortune` | cowsay | xmessage -center -file - (I tried gmessage, but it doesn't work as well due to proportional fonts...) (Ok, I admit it, I'm a geek!) On Mon, 2004-01-26 at

Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. OK, here's whats in it. I don't see anything indicating KDE. What do I change? #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux

[newbie] Re: Ready to update?

2004-01-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I looked around and found configuration, Software Management, Mandrake update in Gnome. Got the list as described and requested the first 12 items in normal. All 12 errored with (couldnt open file). Gnome dosent work well for me. I had to do a master reset to exit due to the system hanging up

Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager

2004-01-31 Thread Lee B.
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 20:36:28 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: On the server, there should be a file ~/.vnc/xstartup. Just edit it to start whatever desktop/WM you want. Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. I tried using these

[newbie] CNN interviews McBride

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
If you didn't want to power-nail this guy to a plank already, you will now. O'BRIEN: Well, I guess you're right, in the sense that this wild west analogy, carrying that on, it's a frontier with no jurisdictional borders, right? Whatever laws apply, wherever you happen to be standing are what

Re: [newbie] How to select the default window manager

2004-01-31 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:57:23 -0800 Lee B. disseminated the following: Just replace 'exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc' with whatever command runs IceWM. I tried using these ~/.vnc/xstartup: exec startx icewm startx icewm You don't need the startx. IIANM, just put 'exec icewm'. Neither