Re: [newbie] Re: Ready for update?

2004-02-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 08:27:32 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone else suggested that maybe I was looking for kpackage. Sounds > right but it's not in KDE and neither is mandrake update but it is in > gnome. So I You're probably right on that one. I have not used it very much

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 7:33 pm, Terence Golightly wrote: > Charlie, > > try this: > Yes there is an upgrade available. Then I suggest you use it. Depending of course whether Plextor states that it's to make the drive compatible with larger blank

Re: [newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-05 Thread bascule
i've tried your latest gaim charles and i'm afraid that yahoo still doesn't work for me, after googling and chatting with a friend the other day it appears that the problem maybe my isps transparent http proxy, he has the same isp as me, uses the same programs and same servers but his is a busin

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:30 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: - ->NO! -> ->You've probably changed yours, but the newbies... -> -> ->LX Lyvim, I'll send it to you in private - you'll appreciate it. :-) -- /\

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 22:59, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:41 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > ->No they just assigned me an IP address which talks to the DSL modem which > has ->a preassigned address there is a way but they won't give me the > password to ->access the modem >

Re: [newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-02-05 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 20:24:01 -0600 John Drouhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the long post, but I am happy right now. I finally got sick > and tired of that horrible GTK1 version of Sylpheed. It was really the > only app I still used regularly that used it. So I went on a treasure > hunt

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-05 Thread Guy Rouillier
On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:56:24 +0200 Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I suggest grub.. > On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. > On my drive two there is win xp home. > Grub handles this effortlessly. > > I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win syste

[newbie] Update-gaim,,,,New-k3b

2004-02-05 Thread Charles A Edwards
Now available for 9.2 Updated: gaim-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm gaim-spam-blocker-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.75-1.3mdk.cae.i

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:41 pm, Aron Smith wrote: ->No they just assigned me an IP address which talks to the DSL modem which has ->a preassigned address there is a way but they won't give me the password to ->access the modem I've got a cable-modem here, but they at least did give me an

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-05 Thread Troy T. Hall
wahoo... works for me. Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 - Original Message - From: "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 1753 N6REJ Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2 > This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a l

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: > > No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options > > it's aZyxel 600 > > Plus, I just thought...that is an extremely older model. Are you sure > that that is the exact model number

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: > > > > > On 2/4/2004 at

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread Terence Golightly
Charlie, try this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] terryg]$ cdrecord -atip dev=0,0,0 Cdrecord 2.0 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' Device type: Removable CD-ROM Ve

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-05 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:53 pm, Lanman wrote: > This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal > things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to > go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new > desktop in town, and you just became history! > > OK, I'm don

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Thread David Sexton
I tryed eject /mnt/cdrom and /dev/hdc as root and got this error eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument > > From: Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 07:58:25 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd > > On Thursday 05 February 2004

[newbie] GTK2 and Sylpheed Claws WORKS!

2004-02-05 Thread John Drouhard
Sorry for the long post, but I am happy right now. I finally got sick and tired of that horrible GTK1 version of Sylpheed. It was really the only app I still used regularly that used it. So I went on a treasure hunt to find a gtk2 port of sylpheed, and guess what I found? Sylpheed-claws's cvs holds

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 5:37 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Charlie, > > Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply! But, unfortunately, > no progress! Please, have a look below. > > Paul > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi pciutil

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: > No way to configure my dsl modem in and out no options > it's aZyxel 600 Plus, I just thought...that is an extremely older model. Are you sure that that is the exact model number? Many of the docs speak of the Zyxel 600 Prestige series. But ther

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:55, Aron Smith wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: > > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: > > > > On 2/4/2004 at 7:21 AM aronsmith wrote: > > > > >any reason to?.. not to? > > > > >

Re: [newbie] CPU temperatures and cooling issues + memory

2004-02-05 Thread Robert Walker
On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 9:08 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > >I agree with what Tom is saying. But a CPU that isn't overvolted > > or overclocked should be OK at an idle temperature of 48C. I > > would still suspect a PSU issue. Its worth checking by borrowing > > someone else's just to rule this

Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 February 2004 06:25 pm, David Sexton wrote: > ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount > /mnt/cdrom > > here is my mtab file > > /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 > none /proc proc rw 0 0 > none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 > none /dev devfs rw 0 0 > none /dev/pts

Re: [newbie] Whats happinging

2004-02-05 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 05 February 2004 11:48 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 13:52, aronsmith wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 10:23, Lanman wrote: > > > On 2/4/2004 at 7:21 AM aronsmith wrote: > > > >any reason to?.. not to? > > > > > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > > Aron; Us

Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 07:39 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > > > > Have you applied the security and bugfix updates? There was an update to > > rpm itself that fixed this behavior. Apply all the updates and then run > > 'update-menus -v' as root to fix permanently. > > > > I tried running urpmi

Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons

2004-02-05 Thread Travis Crook
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 17:20, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:58 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > > Hi All, > > I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation > > faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I > > rerun the setup (repair)

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
Charlie, Thank you very much indeed for your detailed reply! But, unfortunately, no progress! Please, have a look below. Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# urpmi pciutils cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/pciutils-2.1.11-4mdk.i586.rpm': Input/output error unable to read rpm file

Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 05:58 pm, Travis Crook wrote: > Hi All, > I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation > faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I > rerun the setup (repair) then they come back but will be lost rather > quickly.

Re: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon

2004-02-05 Thread et
> From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 6:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon > > On Wednesday 04 Feb 2004 1:40 pm, JoeHill wrote: > > For those of you struggling to get 2.6 up and running, and those who > > are luk

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 4:36 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > I hope I will be enough clear this time. Whenever I try to install a > package using Mandrake installation CDs (whose contents were downloaded > from a mirror) and rpmdrake, I am, most of times, u

[newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-05 Thread Lanman
This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new desktop in town, and you just became history! OK, I'm done. Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? > I just ignore them:) HarM, If I ignore them, the installation of packages is not completed! Well, it is not completed both wa

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Give an example Paul. If the packages are in the contrib directory on a mirror you'll get that warning every time. If they're on t

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Thread David Sexton
ok I tryed the mount command i got back no errors when I typed mount /mnt/cdrom here is my mtab file /dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 none /dev devfs rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermou

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 05 February 2004 23:44, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of > packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but > with no success. Any ideas? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul I just ignore th

Re: [newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 2:31 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of > packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but > with no success. Any ideas? > > Thank yo

Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 05 February 2004 04:05 pm, David Sexton wrote: > Bryan > > I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but > still can not eject it > > I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom > but get same error I posted earyler > > I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc Okay, we

[newbie] Disappearing Menu Icons

2004-02-05 Thread Travis Crook
Hi All, I seem to be losing menu icons. I have been getting segmentation faults in KDE (3.1 under Mandrake 9.2). Could this be the cause? If I rerun the setup (repair) then they come back but will be lost rather quickly. Any ideas? Also, any ideas on what causes segmentation f

[newbie] attachments to RFC ...

2004-02-05 Thread anton
In this case I think it was justified, and they are .txt files... ;-0 Plus, I forgot to say that any suggested changes can be sent direct to me, or sent to the list, whatever people think is appropriate. Cheers Anton -=-=- ... I drink to make other people interesting. -- George Jean

[newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore

[newbie] RFC on translation of http://lis.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/linux/urpmi.html

2004-02-05 Thread anton
Hi, I have butchered the intro to urpmi into English and have attached both the initial rough translation, and a (very) slightly smoothed version for your wits to pick to pieces. My partner and I are going to spend a year in France in April and I thought it would be fun/useful to translate it,

[newbie] prism2_usb driving me mad:-P

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
Hello all, I'm having a devil of a time getting a sitecom usb wl-012 to workehh, it's driving me round the bend: Here's the sad story in a nutshell: I connected and installed all the necessary stufthe thing worked using "kismet" and scanned fine for networks, couldn't get it to set to ad

Re: [newbie] Problem with lspci command

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
I am running a script which looks for the not found command lspci. How can I find it? Is it necessary to install some package? Thank you a lot in advance! It is in the pciutils package, and if you don't have that installed, it will not be present on your system. Thank you very much indeed, Greg!

[newbie] The perpetual problem of the bad signatures

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All How to solve the problem with bad signatures during the process of packages installation? I have tried importing the keys from the CD1, but with no success. Any ideas? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakesto

Re: [newbie] Problem with lspci command

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 03:22 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I am running a script which looks for the not found command lspci. How > can I find it? Is it necessary to install some package? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > It is in the pciutils package, and if you don't have that instal

Re: [newbie] hdlist.cz

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 02:43 pm, anton wrote: > > I guess the hdlist > > Cheers, > I am trying to do some translation and in French it is apparently > "index". I thought maybe "index", but then again, maybe "list", or maybe > there is some more specific name. It would sound pretty stupid if t

Re: Re: [newbie] Eject dvd

2004-02-05 Thread David Sexton
Bryan I have tryed alreday using umount /mnt/cdrom and got back no errors but still can not eject it I have been using the command eject /mnt/cdrom but get same error I posted earyler I also tryed eject /mnt/hdc > > From: Bryan Phinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/02/05 Thu PM 03:49:

[newbie] CPAN (Swatch)

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Begin
Hello,   I am trying to install Swatch log viewer and it tells me that I need to install some CPANs.  It gives me a site of search.cpan.org.   I get two errors:   Calc 0 not found Parse 0 not found   How do I go about solving this problem?   Thanks, Mike  

[newbie] Syslog

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Begin
I need to setup syslog on my 9.2.1 box.  My router is 10.1.1.2.  Two questions: Where do I setup the ip address of the router in linux and have the linux box accept log entries from the router?  Is it just the /etc/syslog.conf file? Where do the logs go once it is setup? 

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 February 2004 17:35, Charlie Mahan wrote: > > The first thing I would do with any older CD-R/RW is check the > manufacturer's site to find whether there's a firmware update > available. That's the easy way to ensure capability of larger > capacity disks. ignsize can be dangerous beca

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thursday 05 February 2004 2:58 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Terence Golightly wrote: > > re-examining the man page to cdrecord and choosing the -ignsize option. I > > burned, I see files, I happy!!! > > > >Cheers to all, > > > >Terry > > That's righ

[newbie] sound

2004-02-05 Thread Philip J Scott
Dear all still struggling with this sound problem, Now got sound in the cd player and have run alsaconf to make sure everything there is ok. my mixer setting seen fine and all the slides are on any at full volume. But still no sound. Also installed aumix which is where the problem in 9.1 was and th

Re: [newbie] Is having LILO/GRUB on the MBR harmful to XP?

2004-02-05 Thread Johan
Hi, I suggest grub.. On my drive one there is win 98 - mdk 9.2 - fedora - suse 9.0. On my drive two there is win xp home. Grub handles this effortlessly. I even experimented with to two win systems (up to 3 win systems can be handled) on same drive - that worked fine with the hide/unhide option.

[newbie] Kernel 260ent and floppy drive

2004-02-05 Thread Johan
Hi, I am running kernel 260ent for a while without problem. Now it seems that byaccident I found that it ca not read a grub boot floppy. That is a ext2 file system. Other boot and dos floppy's no problem. reboot in 2422-26 and all is well. It seems that 260 can not read it's own fs ? Any ideas ple

RE: [newbie]

2004-02-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Try umount -l or while it is booting try if not then you will have to use the SDOD (special drive open device) a paper clip through the small hole at the front, unless you have the correct toll bundled with the drive. DO the latter part with the PC turned off. Tony -Original Message- From

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2

2004-02-05 Thread Lanman
Yeah, That's what I thought as well. Sigh. So I started a download of 10.0 beta 2 an hour ago. I'm going to see whether or not I can update a 9.2 install with the new packages. Probably won't work, but what the heck, it's fun to experiment. Thanks for the reply Greg. Lanman *** REPLY SEP

[newbie]

2004-02-05 Thread David Sexton
Hi all I am unable to get my DVD drive to eject I tried to hold the open button on the drive. Also tried to use the eject command. The drive is not mounted but yet it refuses to eject. when I try to use the eject command I get the following error. eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid a

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 10:26 am, Lanman wrote: > Does anyone know whether or not KDE 3.2 will run on > Mandrake 9.2 or not ? If it does, can anyone tell me if > the rpm's are available anywhere, or is it strictly for > Mandrake 10? > > Lanman I'm trying to build the cooker srpms on my 9.2 b

[newbie] KDE 3.2 for Mandrake 9.2

2004-02-05 Thread Lanman
Does anyone know whether or not KDE 3.2 will run on Mandrake 9.2 or not ? If it does, can anyone tell me if the rpm's are available anywhere, or is it strictly for Mandrake 10? Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] connectivity issue oops! thought I'd sent this....

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
My 9.2 upgrade (from 9.1) seems to be having a problem. I'm downloading the 10.0 betas but when I start the download it interrupts the stream playing on xmms - and then the stream will not reconnect - it will hang at the connecting phase or during buffering. On occasion it will start the stream f

[newbie] connectivity issue.... again

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
I just started gFTP to get the 10.0 iso and it is proceeding and only with occasional interruptions to the xmms stream I was using Opera's download manager which may have been part of the problem. I've lowered the Audio Buffer size (KDE) which seems to have improved the situation - though there

Re: [newbie] Testing USB

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
There's also a nice graphical tool, usbview, which shows the tree of USB devices currently connected. If not already installed, you can find it on disk1 of MDK9.2. Thanks, but I cannot install usbview. The installer complains about bad signatures. How to overcome the bad signatures problem? Pau

[newbie] k3b and root privileges

2004-02-05 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, I have installed k3b-0.11, which I rebuilt from the src rpm here: ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/people/bibri/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/ (Thanks Job Evers) I had to install libk3b1-0.11 also, but it was compiled as part of the k3b src rpm. All seems well, but k3b is requesting root privileges

[newbie] clock doesn't keep accurate time

2004-02-05 Thread C. Tresenriter
NTP will synchronize your clock to UTC time. It will also maintain a drift file and get better with time at holding the machine's clock accurate. You can't set your clock to a local timezone. Rick, Just realized your reply to: is set to your address so you'll get this twice. Thanks for the h

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working

2004-02-05 Thread David Little
On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > > I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get > > it to work. > > > > I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a > > router wi

Re: [newbie] Testing USB

2004-02-05 Thread Raffaele Belardi
There's also a nice graphical tool, usbview, which shows the tree of USB devices currently connected. If not already installed, you can find it on disk1 of MDK9.2. raffaele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know how to lear

Re: [newbie] hdlist.cz

2004-02-05 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:19 am, anton wrote: > Hi, > Can anyone tell me what this file is "known as". I.e, what would Cooker > gurus (Sir Charles, etc) say that they had just updated... I guess the hdlist -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrak

Re: [newbie] Testing USB

2004-02-05 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 05 February 2004 13:31, Paul Smith wrote: > Dear All > > I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working > properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. > Could somebody here please help me? > > Thank you a lot in advance! > > Paul Open a t

[newbie] KDE brings Safari improvements to Linux

2004-02-05 Thread JoeHill
I'm no big fan of KDE, but this sounds pretty cool: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39145507,00.htm -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 07:33:38 up 18:28, 4 users, load average: 1.21, 1.19, 1.13 ++

[newbie] Testing USB

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know how to learn whether the USB connection is working properly. I have a printer connected to there and it does not work. Could somebody here please help me? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-05 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Job Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 23:01:21 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11? > > --- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, I am wondering if any k3b users here have > > > > tried to upg

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-05 Thread Angus Auld
Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:23:18 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11? > On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 15:46:46 -0300 > "Angus Auld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Should I just leave well enough alon

Re: [newbie] Getting the last 10 changed files

2004-02-05 Thread Paul Smith
I would like to get a list of the last 10 changed files on my computer. Is that possible? If so, how? >> That would be a very slow process, I think: cd / ls -lRt | head -n 10 Thanks, a lot! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working

2004-02-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: > I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get > it to work. > > I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a > router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put

[newbie] Kmail word wrap

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Watson
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandrake

[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Watson
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf "install=/boot/boot.b" but this has gone also. I do have the /boot/boot

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working

2004-02-05 Thread Lanman
On 2/4/2004 at 10:21 PM Steve Kaufman wrote: >I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get >it >to work. > >I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a >router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in >the router bas

[newbie] Export from Kmail into OE6

2004-02-05 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, Can I export messages back from Kmail into OE6? Thanks. - -- Fajar http://linux.arinet.org Linux mdk91.sistek.kom 2.4.21-0.13mdk GNU/Linux 16:58:25 up 9:08, 9 users, load average: 0.75, 0.31, 0.22 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [newbie] cdrecord NOT! revisited...oops

2004-02-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Terence Golightly wrote: re-examining the man page to cdrecord and choosing the -ignsize option. I burned, I see files, I happy!!! Cheers to all, Terry That's right , unless you specify differently cdrecord, as I understand it , assumes your media size is 650MB, but as long as you take care

RE: [newbie] 2.6: The Speed Demon

2004-02-05 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Not tried it I don't think but I would double check the reiserFS web site. I am still having problems with my Sata controller so after 3 atempts to install beta 3 I gave up last night will give it another couple of goes tonight. Tony. -Original Message- From: Richard Urwin [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Error while doing Mandrake Update

2004-02-05 Thread Russ
I have tried to install the Bugfix "libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk" multiple time now at different times of the day but I continue to get the same error: The following packages have bad signatures: libqt3-3.1.2-15.3.92mdk.i586.rpm: Missing signature (Couldn't open file) Do you want to continue insta

Re: [newbie] k3b update to 0.11?

2004-02-05 Thread Job Evers
--- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, I am wondering if any k3b users here have > > tried to upgrade to the latest release 0.11? > > I found a binary package for Mdk9.2 here: > http://www.k3b.org/ > but, when I try to install, urpmi tells me there is > conflicting > file in the