Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-14 Thread Keith Powell
The e-mail address for the program is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an e-mail and see if it does any good. I am retired and we watch it while we are having our sandwich and piece of cake mid-day lunch. Our main meal is in the evening. There

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27, Keith Powell wrote: The e-mail address for the program is: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, it was Gillian Lacey-Solymar who did the item. I'll send an e-mail and see if it does any good. I am retired and we watch it while we are having our sandwich and piece of

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 23:35, lanman wrote: Anne; Thanks for the trust. It's not misplaced. Here's the site with the broadcast on it; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/programmes/working_lunch/default.stm Click on the link near the upper-left corner labelled Video Watch programme. Once it starts,

Re: [newbie] Adobe Acrobat install

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:21, Aron Smith wrote: GPDF is pretty nice. Just: urpmi gpdf Free, and Open Source. KGhostview works fine for me. AFAIK, it's part of the Mandrake default installation. I also have Acrobat Reader installed, but that is probably because I have

Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't understand mime?

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 02:23, Charlie wrote: Below is a message that I find in the source from a Mac machine:- THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. Is this message likely to be html?

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 13 February 2004 17:18, Philip J Scott wrote: Well Anne It didnt do anything for me at all, still all quiet here :( But then again I really dont have any clue as to what I am supposed to do with it. I went to the link but there are so many options, and then if I do choose one I dont

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Johan
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I say to the bootloader option when installing Mandrake?

[newbie] Graphics card question.

2004-02-14 Thread Greyarchive
I am looking for a graphic card that linux supports its TV out function, I am trying to link my bedroom linux to the 21 tv. I have an ATI 7500 32mb card in there with TV out but Always when I try to setup the TV it doesn't recognise and goes into txt mode Pyros (Jason) Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a machine currently setup with Win2000 (6GB) and SUSE 9.0 taking up the remainder of an 80GB hard drive. I downloaded the ISOs for Mandrake 10 Beta 2 and wanted to give it a try on this machine. I'm currently using GRUB as my bootloader. How would I go about

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem that it will ever change the decision of the person in charge of deciding what is included in the disks. Hey

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 08:23 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:10 am, Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem that it will ever change the decision of the person in

Re: [newbie] [OT] The BBC and Linux.

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 00:51:52 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: This is what I said: I like your style Ann, Short, direct and non-abusive. I'm applauding standing up!:) Yes, well done, though 'army' might not have been the best word to use. As far as I'm concerned, it *is*

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
Charlie wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:09 am, robin wrote: Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the Logout button, get a choice of 3 options (Login as different

[newbie] 3 and a Half Hours left!

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
Just a Not-So-Subtle reminder folks. I have to shut down FTP access to KDE 3.2 and Texstar's Mozilla packages at precisely 12 noon today. If you're currently using my server as media source in URPMI, you're in for a bit of a dissapointment later today. Please log in and download the packages

Re: [newbie] dev/null

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 18:15:36 -0800 Lee B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: Okay, here I am, ticked off enough at a list to dev/null the lot of'em and I don't know how. Look in the email header. The unsub link is in there. The keyword here is a list. This list

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: Well I have run alsaconf, I have also followed advice on mixer settings. Everything checks out. The one thing thats not been tried is the oss But as a novicxe i do not know what this is, I assume it is alternative drivers. I followed

Re: [newbie] KMail doesn't understand mime?

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:53, Charlie wrote: No Anne, it is plain text, and apparently it is a message that can be ignored and these error messages also appear in c programming:- Quote:- It's just a warning, ignore it. Same as when compiling source, you get warnings about the

[newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Robert Walker
Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on the PC. I am using MDK 9.2 on the router with a custom 2.4.22

[newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
As usual I'm lost again. While researching screensavers I could find no screensaver packages on the mandrake site. But I did find some updates to files that indicated they would fix the problem(install by default). I then did an update and none of the files were installed would not install

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:23, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: Everybody doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule added to the etiquette page about posting links to

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: Everybody doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though Anne ...but it *isn't* sorted - I can still only shut down cleanly

[newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited

2004-02-14 Thread Mark Annandale
Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying to install them, lots of dependency problems. Google

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:20, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: Everybody doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though Anne

Re: [newbie] Good News

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 09:15 am, robin wrote: JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 19:26:38 -0500 Greg Meyer disseminated the following: The nice reviews are still coming in. Mandrake on the Shuttle XPC. http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 Ok, I think there should be a rule

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub should be ok with this, but don't hold me to it. What should I

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello Hoyt, What exactly are you missing? Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module in KControl -- Look Feel? I know the xscreensaver package works too. Regs, On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:00, Hoyt Bailey wrote: As usual I'm lost again. While researching

[newbie] A factually correct article about Open Source

2004-02-14 Thread Alastair Scott
In contrast to the BBC's error-ridden efforts, an excellent summary. Particularly impressive is the author's understanding that Open Source is far from being just OSS (Open Source Software): http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/start.asp?P_Article=12404 (The OpenCola is no joke - see

Re: [newbie] Graphics card question.

2004-02-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 14 February 2004 12:40, Greyarchive wrote: I am looking for a graphic card that linux supports its TV out function, I am trying to link my bedroom linux to the 21 tv. I have an ATI 7500 32mb card in there with TV out but Always when I

RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:20, Philip J Scott wrote: Well I have

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is in KDE, if not where can it be found? It's called cmatrix and is

[newbie] its installed

2004-02-14 Thread Harold E Vine III
i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried lindows and while the install went flawless, i didn't agree with

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: snip As far as I know, Grub

RE: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-14 Thread Dale Kosan
No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your urpmi.cfg file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lanman Sent: Thursday, February 12,

Re: [newbie] any nice person out there with the kde 3.2 for mdk9.2 rpms

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 09:54 am, Dale Kosan wrote: No joy, tons of warnings about conflicts. This come from a stock 9.2 install. Could it maybe be my choice of mirrors and contrib.? Could you send me your urpmi.cfg file? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 09:22 am, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. I have downloaded all the 3.2 RPM's, but having a tough time trying

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Johan
Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. Goodluck Johan title Windows XP Home hdg1 root (hd1,0) map (0x81)

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 08:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers Hello Hoyt, What exactly are you missing? Don't you have any Screensavers listed under the Screensaver module in KControl

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 13 February 2004 11:31 am, John Richard Smith wrote:      Well good John.  Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze runnin, to flash the bios. If for any reason the flash

Re: [newbie] its installed

2004-02-14 Thread lanman
On February 14, 2004 09:41 am, Harold E Vine III wrote: i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were unbelievable. i tried

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:36, Philip J Scott wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On

Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:22, Mark Annandale wrote: Hi Folks Sorry to bring this up again, as I'm sure its been asked, but where are the newbie archives these days. I only seem to be able to find up to November last year. Mark - follow the link in my sig to get to the TWiki pages. Use

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 10:03 am, Johan wrote: Hi, Well..NO NO NO or YES YES YES here is my menu.lst from the mbr starting various OS flavors effortlessly. But you should know what you are doing..thats linux..various ways to reach succes..but the choice is yours.. I agree,

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is in KDE, if not where can it be found? It's called cmatrix and

Re: [newbie] Monitor settings (slightly OT)

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 13:01:54 + Marco Verheul disseminated the following: I can't seem to set the recommended resolution in Mandrake Control Center. It does not show the combination of the resolution/refresh rate I want to select. Is there another way? Could it be that my graphic card

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:10:29 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. I going to chime in with a few words about the KT600. Be aware that the 2.4 kernel Only supports the KT600 in 2X mode for graphics cards. If you have a 'newer' high

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC router. The model I have connects to a serial port on

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 09:42, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 09:27 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:20 am, Johan wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 01:17:40 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 00:33,

Re: [newbie] How do I install Mandrake and 'triple boot'?

2004-02-14 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:20 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: So I guess I still don't understand: 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE partition? I do not know the answer to this question. I have never tried to resize a reiserFS partition. 2) Will Mandrake share

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 15:40, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 23:50:12 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Before I go ahead and wipe Debian off my laptop and replace it with MDK I'd like to know if I can use the rather nice Matrix screensaver that is in KDE, if not

Re: [newbie] its installed

2004-02-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 9:41:52 -0500 Harold E Vine III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i did the install last night. i ran all the updates this morning. it was actually easier than a rh install, and i've run rh since the 2.0 daysup and including fedora. at that point i gave up. the bugs were

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 10:46:15 -0500 Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 09:10:29 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently I'm usin an Asus A7V600, KT600 chipset. I going to chime in with a few words about the KT600. Be aware that the 2.4 kernel

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 11:31 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Well good John. Now next time you buy a motherboard, check around for one that has a second bios backup already onboard and doesn't need a DOS boot floppy, or Windoze runnin, to flash the bios. If for any

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:36, Philip J Scott wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 13:55 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Robert Walker
Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown soon :-) for a Belkin UPS I have hooked up to a Linux-based PC

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Margot
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 14:20, Margot wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 13:34, Margot wrote: Everybody doesn't seem to include *me* at the moment...I feel like some sort of outcast... :-( Margot That's priceless, Margot ;-) Glad it sorted, though

Re: [newbie] Kde 3.2 revisited

2004-02-14 Thread Paul Kaplan
Are you using rpms made for 9.2 or cooker rpms? If the latter, you're going to have some real headaches regarding dependencies. Better to get a set of 9.2 rpms. (see pclinuxonline.com about 10 days ago for a link to a site with 9.2 rpms. If you follow the read more.. link, you'll also find

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:56:07 +0100 H.J.Bathoorn disseminated the following: Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( Heh, you should know me better by nowthat

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:31:58 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( To get the Matrix screensaver, you can download the

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 14 February 2004 05:34 am, Margot wrote: Charlie wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 07:09 am, robin wrote: Margot wrote: robin wrote: Margot wrote: I must have done something really stupid, but I don't know what...! Up until a couple of weeks ago, I used to be able to click on the

[newbie] ati aiw ve (radeon 7500)

2004-02-14 Thread Harold E Vine III
any one have any success installing this set of drivers on their ati All In Wonder cards in mandrake? http://gatos.sourceforge.net/ ati says: http://www.ati.com/support/faq/linux.html Video Capture Video capture under XFree86 is currently done using the Video4Linux2 (or V4L2) API, which should

Re: [newbie] Bios upgrades

2004-02-14 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 11:11:51 -0600 John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That reminds me, I have a KT400 based Soyo Dragon Lite. I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra. How can I tell at what speed my AGP bus is running at? If you changed nothing then it will be running at the default

Re: [newbie] Preparing (hopefully) to install (Compaq laptop, anybody?)

2004-02-14 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 13 February 2004 07:29 pm, Walt Frampus wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 22:18, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Marc: There's a freeware program (Ranish Partition Manager) that is supposed to do everything that PM can do. I've never used it myself, but I've seen lots of good words about it

[newbie] About Kmail

2004-02-14 Thread rheinandco
Hello, First of all thank you for your help to set up my acount in kmail. It is now working. Now I have some questions about Kmail that I discover. 1- Is it possible like in Mozilla firebird to have the links open in the same window of konqueror? 2- Is there a Junk buton or a way to train

[newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-14 Thread Christophe Rhein
Me again... I need one software running with windows and that is Asymetrix Toolbook... Is there someone out there using this software with wine and linux? Is wine the best and easiest way to use windows software? Thank You Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0 snd-via82xx if that's

Re: [newbie] User can't switch off...but Root can!

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 18:25, Margot wrote: Sorry - misunderstood. Try UserDrake, select your own account, groups, and add yourself to the group Anne In Userdrake, user 'margot' is already shown as a member of all available groups except 'nogroup' and 'root'. However, in

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-14 Thread Aaron
Christophe Rhein wrote: Me again... There are as far as I can tell three main choices Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not games) transgaming is for games although dosbox

Re: [newbie] framebuffer image viewer

2004-02-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 07 Feb 2004 23:55:02 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I apologise for not being precise enough. What I'm looking for is a CLI application for viewing images that can work without X enviroment. A quick google turns up 'fbi-1.30.tar.gz' a tarball for a framebuffer image

[newbie] Re: Setup of ADSL modem/router (ethernet)

2004-02-14 Thread Björn Lundin
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Could somebody here please explain me how to setup a ADSL modem/router (ethernet)? I have just bought one and I have been able of setting it up under MS Windows, but not with Mandrake. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul su to root service network stop urpmi

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:06, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 08:25 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers Hello Hoyt, What exactly are you missing? Don't you have any

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-14 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
On Saturday 14 February 2004 08:29 am, lanman wrote: On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 19:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: This pissing contest over mc vs emacs vs vi vs what the hell ever is never going to go away, nor does it seem

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:31:58 +0200 robin disseminated the following: Installed that, but even after restarting X, it does not appear in the XScreensaver list of available screensavers. Don't tell me it's only available for KDE... :-( To get the Matrix screensaver, you can download

RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 20:39 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-14 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:02:05 +0200 Aaron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christophe Rhein wrote: Me again... There are as far as I can tell three main choices Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the

Re: [newbie] About Kmail

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:32, you wrote: I'm sorry not to be specific... I ment when I have a mail with different links in it and I want to see them, in Thunderbird I can open them in the same window but in different tabs. I hope this helps Christophe Ah - I think I see You want to

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 15:47 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers On Saturday 14 February 2004 23:06, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the oss driver and still nothing have tried to run a console but nothing there either, it either says no such command or permission denied. At leaset me digi cam works lol

Re: [newbie] on distributions...

2004-02-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 15:49 Subject: Re: [newbie] on distributions... On Saturday 14 February 2004 08:29 am, lanman wrote: On February 14, 2004 08:27 am, Margot wrote:

Re: [newbie] Is wine the best choice?

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:02, Aaron wrote: Wine Cxoffice vmware win4lin Wine and crossover office are hit or miss not everything runs. vmware and win4lin offer the widest range of programs working (not games) transgaming is for games although dosbox of freedos will get you a lot of

Re: [newbie] Matrix screensaver

2004-02-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 19:34, JoeHill wrote: So how do use it as a screensaver, ie. get it to automatically trigger after a period of inactivity (without X running). That would be cool to just leave my machine running in text mode when I'm not doing anything... Frankly: I don't

Re: [newbie] External Projector

2004-02-14 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 21:50, yankl wrote: Check the http://www.linux-laptop.net/toshiba.html. Thanks for the link. I partially solved some of the problems with the NVIDIA driver. I still have to boot to switch between LCD and proyector, but it is just an annoyance. Adolfo Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. RH-7.2  is several years old and will not install on this equipment. Therefore I am skittish, for that reason.  As a matter of fact I couldnt get it to work on a 586,  but

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 17:18, John Richard Smith wrote: I shouldn't come in here because I haven't been following this thread, but my via 8233 sound chip works on my MSI mobo and the modules.conf looks like this. above snd-via82xx snd-pcm-oss alias sound-slot-0

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 14 February 2004 3:41 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: Ok Anne did the test it was using the said driver switched to the oss driver and still nothing have tried to run a console but

Re: [newbie] Belkin Gold Series UPS - its time to pull my hair out!!

2004-02-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:22 am, Robert Walker wrote: Saturday, February 14, 2004, 3:46:34 PM, you wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:59 am, Robert Walker wrote: Hello all, I am trying to setup some basic shutdown software (i.e. oh look I am on batteries I had better shutdown

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 16:51 Subject: Re: [newbie] Screensavers On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. RH-7.2 is

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 14 February 2004 04:51 pm, Glenn wrote: On Saturday 14 February 2004 21:30, you wrote: No I havent tried because while I know mandrake was likely derived from RH. RH-7.2  is several years old and will not install on this equipment. Therefore I am skittish, for that reason.  As a

RE: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Philip J Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anne Wilson Sent: 14 February 2004 22:42 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:06, Philip J Scott wrote: Ok Anne did

Re: [newbie] Good virus program?

2004-02-14 Thread RichardA
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 23:44:12 +1100, _nasturtium [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [OT] Question: My brother would like to know where the Tupac quote comes from :-). To know your enemy, you must become your enemy... Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. - Sun Tzu Want to

Re: [newbie] Re: Setup of ADSL modem/router (ethernet)

2004-02-14 Thread Paul Smith
Thanks, Björn! My modem/router is already working fine under Linux. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Upgrading to mdk 10

2004-02-14 Thread aronsmith
Just upgraded to mdk 10 any one know how to get KDE back? or Gnome even IceWm is all that comes up. K mail crashes. whatv packages do I need? TIA smitty (who is more confused than ever) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Solved: No sound with onboard VIA VT8233 sound card

2004-02-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 14 February 2004 22:57, Charlie Mahan wrote: I'm surprised I haven't posted this yet for February. I usually post it once a month at least. classic bug sound tester: Hi, Charlie. That's exactly what he'll find in the Troubleshooting section, so he can just take it from your mail