[newbie] looking for FF DIN font

2004-02-24 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, I've tried everything, but I haven't found font I'm looking for! could someone please help me with FF DIN font... force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 00:32, Charlie Mahan wrote: HmmmI wonder if this: urpmi testzilla-clients [Enter] would work. Sorry HarM (and everyone) if I screwed up again, as usual. )-: If that doesn't workHERE CATCH!

Re: [newbie] hauppauge pvr-250

2004-02-24 Thread et
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 01:24 am, Tóth Béla wrote: Hi! Use somebody hauppauge pvr-250 tv card (or pvr-350) under Mandrake 9.2? If yes, please write me a mail. Thanks! Toti have you tried ivtv yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Olivier Esser wrote: Linux is about freedom free as in speech so you are welcome to express any idea you have! I do not however agree with you. If you just install XP without any additional driver, you will see that *many* things do not work (sound, network card, screen ,etc..). (Maybe there

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change in how the font is

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from say a 9 point to a 10 point font there is no change

Re: [newbie] hauppauge pvr-250

2004-02-24 Thread Tth Bla
Hi! I try install Hauppauge card follow this dokument step by step (with ivtv driver): http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-22.html#ss22.1 So! After install created this device, but his name not really equal that card what I read in mythtv docs: From mythtv documents:: 00:0c.0 Multimedia video

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
anton wrote: All roads blanked, except, a google to a site I could not make much sense of. No I was not kidding ya. It's why I asked. me no understand? ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/MandrakeCooker/contrib/i586/htmldoc-1.8.23-5mdk.i586.rpm no idea... first google entry... Cheers Anton See

[newbie] 10.0 News and Issues

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
Is it time to start a 10.0 News and Issues page on the twiki like the one for 9.2. There is probably a lot of good info here for starting out even though that page is a work in progress itself. http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MandrakeLinux10ReleaseNotes I'll start the 10.0 page

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 23 February 2004 09:23 pm, Lee B. wrote: lsmod does not show a usb module. /etc/modules.conf has no reference to usb. Okay, first step is to try to find out what modules you need for USB and why they are not being loaded. I am pretty sure that USB will NOT work without kernel

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the end. Say, This is all about visual display calibration,

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 06:16 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 09:23 pm, Lee B. wrote: lsmod does not show a usb module. /etc/modules.conf has no reference to usb. Okay, first step is to try to find out what modules you need for USB and why they are not being

Re: [newbie] Fixing the printers not showing up in Firefox and Thunderbird.

2004-02-24 Thread brife
Thanks for the tip, Steve. I noticed that the Print menu-item was grayed out in FF .8 the other day. Sometimes though one thing just leads to another. After changing the user.js file and printing a test page, I got a printout informing me that the Postscript interpreter in the printer was too old

RE: [newbie] 10.0 News and Issues

2004-02-24 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Just read the bit in the link about removing KDE altogether in order to upgrade to 3.2... Is there another way? I would rather not uninstall KDE and then do the whole urpmi thing for it to fail... That would be real nasty... Could I add KDE to the skip.list and upgrade the rest of the system

Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc

2004-02-24 Thread Weiers Coetser
Thanks: I Got it sorted out. I did not notice in the past that I actually had to click or double click on the HP 5L printer at the top in the printer manager window in order to access the jobs for that specific printer. I just took it for granted that since it is the only printer on my system,

[newbie] cpuinfo

2004-02-24 Thread Brian's Linux Box
Does cpuinfo show the actual cpu MHz that the cpu is running at or does it only show what it is rated at ? I'm pretty sure it shows what it is running at When I overclocked my XP2500 it reported it as an XP3200 I also _think_ you want the and 7.5 setting as

[newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Sun February 22 2004 5:47 pm, you wrote: On Sat 2004-02-21 20:53:48, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I may dump Window 95 on my 2 old 486 laptop and install Linux on them. I have an older desk top that I would like to run Linux and use as a router so all of our computer can use the DSL internet

[newbie] How do i make my folder into 3 bootable CD?

2004-02-24 Thread jianming ng
Dear newbie-mandrake-support-team, I got the link from the mandrake website and i'm very interested this OS. I downloaded all the files from ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/9.2/i586/ May i know how do i make all of this files into 3 or 4 Bootable disc, so i can keep and install using CD?

[newbie] turning of the notebook

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, How can I turn of the notebook? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I created the firefox file to always opening my links in it. When I try from as root from a shell konsole to execute the script I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 0755 /user/bin firefoxbugfix chmod: failed to get attributes of `/user/bin': No such file or directory chmod: failed

[newbie] Konqueror and Kmail

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, Since I'm using firefox and soon Thunderbird (when I have finished downloading the soft... It is slow here in Ankara), can I remove konqueror and Kmail? Shall I keep Konqueror for opening and looking at my files? Bye Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider. What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it. I closed my computer and started it

[newbie] turning of the Notebook?

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, Under linux I have to manualy turn of the notebook (Compaq nx9005). Is there a way to have it done by the computer? (it works on the other partition with XP). Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:24:37PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I created the firefox file to always opening my links in it. When I try from as root from a shell konsole to execute the script I get this [EMAIL PROTECTED] rhein]# chmod 0755 /user/bin firefoxbugfix chmod: failed to

[newbie] need help adding external modem to mandrake 8

2004-02-24 Thread Kenn
Greetings. I guess it should be obvious how to do this, but I'm not finding the right place to read my Mandrake 8 box has a built-in Winmodem (which Mandrake detects but cannot configure), and rather than mess with configuring a winmodem, I'd rather just add an external modem to the

Re: [newbie] turning of the Notebook?

2004-02-24 Thread Olivier Esser
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Under linux I have to manualy turn of the notebook (Compaq nx9005). Is there a way to have it done by the computer? (it works on the other partition with XP). Thank you Christophe There is some options of this kind when you compile your kernel. I have not tried

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Olivier Esser
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider. What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it. I closed my

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Robert Walker
Tuesday, February 24, 2004, 12:54:16 PM, you wrote: What I use the 2 old 486 laptop for are simple tasks. If I am working on a computer that has some thing wrong with it, or working with new applications, OS as I am doing now. Instead of printing the instruction or documentation. I display

Re: [newbie] ML10.0rc1

2004-02-24 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 23 February 2004 5:19 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: whack I had a problem with the 2.6 kernel not booting after I did the first boot after the upgrade. I rebooted into the old-linux kernel which came up as 9.2 and it then said that it found a

[newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to know whether the firewall inbuilt in the modem/router avoids the use of a software firewall. What does modem/router's firewall really do? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul _ Use MSN Messenger to send music

Re: [newbie] How do i make my folder into 3 bootable CD?

2004-02-24 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 18:01, jianming ng wrote: Dear newbie-mandrake-support-team, I got the link from the mandrake website and i'm very interested this OS. I downloaded all the files from ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/9.2/i586/ May i know how do i make all of this files

Re: [newbie] Making clickable menu desktop entries for apps

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Sun February 22 2004 5:53 pm, deedee wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:53:48, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I ran Mandrake Update it only displayed programs that are on th 3 Mandrake CD I made from down loading Mandrake 9.2. I Installed maybe 10 different apps. Problem after updating my menus Wine

[newbie] Removing boot splash theme

2004-02-24 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
I decided to switch the boot splash theme to the frozen-bubble one, but booting now freezes the computer (after displaying some normal boot messages). Strange that this should happen, but as I didn't change anything else, I believe the new theme *must* (somehow) be the culprit. So what is the

Re: [newbie] 10.0 News and Issues

2004-02-24 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 23 February 2004 10:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is it time to start a 10.0 News and Issues page on the twiki like the one for 9.2. There is probably a lot of good info here for starting out even though that page is a work in progress itself.

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you sad about opening mousedrake and changing my mouse... but it didn't work. I still couldn't use my notebook glider.What I did this morning I pluged again the Usb mouse and it was ok... I unplug it with mandrake running and I could use it.I closed my

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'm only guesing, but since you say you have a usb mouse, which you didn't mention before, maybe the problem has less to do with the mouse configuration than maybe the usb setup itself. KDE - information - USB Devices, displays

Re: [newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:41 am, Paul Smith wrote: -Dear All - -I would like to know whether the firewall inbuilt in the modem/router avoids -the use of a software firewall. What does modem/router's firewall really do? - -Thank you a lot in advance! - -Paul Hi Paul. I'm no expert, but a

Re: [newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:41 am, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I would like to know whether the firewall inbuilt in the modem/router avoids the use of a software firewall. What does modem/router's firewall really do? You would need to tell us what type of router. Some have SPI (stateful

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Lee B.
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 09:23 pm, Lee B. wrote: lsmod does not show a usb module. /etc/modules.conf has no reference to usb. Okay, first step is to try to find out what modules you need for USB and why they are not being loaded. I am pretty sure that USB will

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 07:24 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:45 am, John Richard Smith wrote: OK, I followed you as far as here, see snapshot384.png. so how does the ruler then come in ? Click the calibrate button. Yep, got there in the

Re: [newbie] 10.0 News and Issues

2004-02-24 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Charlie Mahan wrote: Monday 23 February 2004 10:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: Is it time to start a 10.0 News and Issues page on the twiki like the one for 9.2. There is probably a lot of good info here for starting out even though that page is a work in progress itself.

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Lee B.
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 06:16 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 09:23 pm, Lee B. wrote: lsmod does not show a usb module. /etc/modules.conf has no reference to usb. Okay, first step is to try to find out what modules you need for USB and

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 01:52 pm, Lee B. wrote: Location on bus: 0:4:2, Description VIA VT82C586B USB, Module: usb-uhci, Media class: SERIAL_USB Add the following line to your /etc/modules.conf file: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci Then restart the machine and then you can issue a dmesg

Re: [newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Smith
You would need to tell us what type of router. Some have SPI (stateful packet inspection), some merely do NAT (network address translation) so the answer would depend on that. Ultimately, a software firewall is much more dynamic and responsive, you have a much better level of control over

[newbie] Unmounting home

2004-02-24 Thread martin brandt
I need to unmount my /home/ directory so that i can resize the partition, but its alway busy when im logged in, is there a way to do it before booting the GUI? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:26 pm, Lee B. wrote: So, can you tell me why it was broken? I assume that the UHCI was already in the kernal, but I'm not clear on why it wasn't loading to begin with. Well, I didn't see the install when you put in Mandrake. Any guess that I could make would

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 02:09 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: The way I did it was to hit the calibrate, slide the little black arrow to a point that matched a measurement on my ruler and then entered those values in the boxes. Was this right? Troy I don't recall a black arrow, but each

Re: [newbie] Making clickable menu desktop entries for apps

2004-02-24 Thread deedee
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 09:03:06, Ray Hogaboom wrote: On Sun February 22 2004 5:53 pm, deedee wrote: Software packages removal shows every application (and the required dependencies) that you installed from an rpm (package) on your system. The overwhelming majority should not be removed.

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Mon February 23 2004 7:30 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been able to

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:10:35 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't use urpmi. You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command and yer on yer

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 11:03, Todd Slater a écrit : On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:24:37PM -0500,

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Mon February 23 2004 9:42 am, robin wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Sunday 22 February 2004 03:48 pm, deedee wrote: While I mentioned in an earlier post that I know rank newbies who have had no problems at all with Linux, I do not know a single person who is expert in ms win who has been

Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:44:37 - Jamie Kerwick disseminated the following: I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Download this script: http://www.orderinchaos.org/mencvcd copy it to

Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 14:44:37 - Jamie Kerwick disseminated the following: I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Oh, BTW, to use the script I just posted, make sure you: urpmi mjpegtools

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 06:50:05PM -0500, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye Christophe Argh, I gave you the answer

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
How do you turn of the hardware detection? Thanks Christophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 12:37, Bryan Phinney a écrit : On Tuesday 24 February 2004 12:33 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I'm only guesing, but since you say you have a usb mouse, which you didn't mention before, maybe the problem

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...

2004-02-24 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 24 February 2004 4:50 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder... Do you have to put a space between 0755 and /user? Hop I can solve it because I can not open my links strait in firefox! Bye

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Olivier Esser
Christophe Rhein wrote: How do you turn of the hardware detection? DrakConf; then go in system; then go in DrakXServices and you see a menu in wich you can turn it off (as well as many other things) Olivier Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread deedee
On Tues, Feb 24, 2004, 12:54:16 PM, Ray Hogaboom wrote: What I use the 2 old 486 laptop for are simple tasks. If I am working on a computer that has some thing wrong with it, or working with new applications, OS as I am doing now. Instead of printing the instruction or documentation. I

[newbie] Re: Removing boot splash theme

2004-02-24 Thread Karl Ove Hufthammer
Karl Ove Hufthammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: So what is the easiest way of removing the boot splash theme, using tools available in 'rescue' on the mdk 10 beta 2 CD? Solved it. -- Karl Ove Hufthammer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Problem with firefox script execution...Thanks!

2004-02-24 Thread Christophe Rhein
Thanks for the link I will read it little by little:-) CHristophe Le Mardi 24 Février 2004 16:17, Charlie Mahan a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 24 February 2004 4:50 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Here is a snapshot of my directory with the folder...

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-24 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 20:36, Björn Lundin wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: Here's a nice one back just for the fun of it.catch! http://people.zeelandnet.nl/triade/RPMS/jumpnbump-1.3-1.i586.rpm That is if you like squishing bunnies.my kids do!:) Excuse me for getting old, but

Re: [newbie] Switch Window Managers

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:27:08 -0500 JoeHill disseminated the following: There've been a lot of improvements since 0.1.3, I'd really recommend building it from CVS. I built a checkinstall RPM of current CVS for download here, if anyone cares to try it out:

Re: [newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Paul Smith
You should certainly consider supplementing your defense with a software firewall if you can. Guarddog is a good solution, easy to configure and quick to get running until and if you decide to customize by digging into iptables. Thanks Bryan and JRH! Guarddog seems to be too much cautious...

Re: [newbie] Re: Relocation error after urpmi .rpm upgrade of K3B

2004-02-24 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 13:20, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Obviously, I'm still not used to the touchpad's hypersensitivity, hence the partial message send below... In any case, after upgrading K3B, I've obviously mucked something up here. Any ideas as to what may have gone wrong or how to repair,

Re: [newbie] Font rendering tips

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I just made a huge improvement to the look of the fonts on my screen by making a small change to one of the XFree86 config files. This will probably help you if you ever noticed when switching from

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Lee B. wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Tuesday 24 February 2004 01:52 pm, Lee B. wrote: Location on bus: 0:4:2, Description VIA VT82C586B USB, Module: usb-uhci, Media class: SERIAL_USB Add the following line to your /etc/modules.conf file: probeall usb-interface usb-uhci Then restart

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread John Richard Smith
JoeHill wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:10:35 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: I don't use urpmi. You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Marc, I have been following your thread, I'm no help with kernel

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 23:21:54 + John Richard Smith disseminated the following: You gotta be kiddin' me...why put yourself through such torture when urpmi will take care of everything for you? No need for Google, searching through FTP sites, one command and yer on yer way... But

Re: [newbie] Mouse back in a strage way...

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:17 pm, Christophe Rhein wrote: How do you turn of the hardware detection? chkconfig harddrake off -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Asking about modem/router's firewall

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 05:27 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Thanks Bryan and JRH! Guarddog seems to be too much cautious... as it prevents even me of getting my e-mail and browsing the Internet! How can I teach the zealous dog to be less defensive? You should have an icon under Configuration

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: If Gnome didn't suck so bad I would, well, use it! It amazes me to no end how many people are so loyal to KDE, yet have so many problems with it. Sorry, this is my day to bash KDE... :-D -- JoeHill Registered Linux user

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-24 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 06:07 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Interestingly my modules.conf has a bit more, not sure why, I do have usb1 and usb2 ports, maybe that has something to do with it? probeall usb-interface usb-ohci ehci-hcd usb-uhci Yes, I have more in mine as well. However, I

Re: [newbie] KDM 3.2 still bites...

2004-02-24 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 06:26 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: If Gnome didn't suck so bad I would, well, use it! It amazes me to no end how many people are so loyal to KDE, yet have so many problems with it. Sorry, this is my

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Terence Golightly
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:09, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 10:43 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Marc, I

Re: [newbie] Switch Window Managers

2004-02-24 Thread Terence Golightly
Joe, Can pekwm work under XFce4? Terry snip I built a checkinstall RPM of current CVS for download here, if anyone cares to try it out: http://www.orderinchaos.org/pekwm-CVS20040223-1mdk.i586.rpm -- I used to have a signature, but I lost it. My new one is: IIRC CRS Want to buy your

[newbie] Cirque Glidepoint Cruise Cat touch pad

2004-02-24 Thread Tim
First timer!! I'm having trouble getting a Glidepoint touch pad with Mandrake v9.2 (download version). Basically, the mouse cursor jumps all over the screen every time I try to move the cursor. The touch pad works fine on my Win2000 machine. I'd like to migrate my five machines over to

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:09, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:42:12 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More

Re: [newbie] Switch Window Managers

2004-02-24 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 19:44:17 -0500 Terence Golightly disseminated the following: Can pekwm work under XFce4? Ya, there's a few ways to do it, depends on what you want to keep from one and leave out from the other. Just make sure you still run xfce-mcs-manager first and then pekwm last. Pekwm

Re: [newbie] Cirque Glidepoint Cruise Cat touch pad

2004-02-24 Thread Lanman
On February 24, 2004 08:29 pm, Tim wrote: First timer!! I'm having trouble getting a Glidepoint touch pad with Mandrake v9.2 (download version). Basically, the mouse cursor jumps all over the screen every time I try to move the cursor. The touch pad works fine on my Win2000 machine. I'd

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:42:12 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread John Drouhard
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!!

2004-02-24 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:05 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:55:03 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-24 Thread Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf
IF Windows 95/98 will run on a 486, I'm quite sure you could use a GUI in Linux on a 486, even if it's pure X without a Window manager. Might not look like much, but still, I think you could. Also, TWM might run just fine too. -- __ We Are 138

[newbie] Mdk 9.2 not keeping gateway settings

2004-02-24 Thread Johan
Hi, Andre Truter and myself installed a LAN on 2 PC's. One is a gateway and the other is the network pc. OK..the pc with 3 linux fl;avours and win xp have a little trouble. 1-win xp works fine everytime after reboot. 2-suse 9.0 works fine everytime after reboot. 3-fedora works everytime after

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-02-24 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-24 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Sun February 22 2004 3:48 pm, deedee wrote: On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 08:15:11, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks again for all of your help I have downloaded Rute. We are driving to the bay area today (5 hr round trip) I will copy it to our laptop so that I can start reading it. Good. Once you get

[newbie] 9.2 Laptop LCD at 1280x800 on ATI 9600 Radeon Mobility

2004-02-24 Thread Guy Rouillier
I've got a new laptop (eMachines M6805 with AMD64) with the stated resolution. It has an ATI Radeon 9600 Mobility chip with 64 MB graphics memory. Unfortunately, ATI has not produced a Linux driver for it, so until I can find one, I'm using ati fbdev, which I assume is a framebuffer device.

Re: [newbie] Re: Running 10.0rc1 2.6.3 kernel

2004-02-24 Thread Thinker
On Feb 23, 2004, at 1:04 PM, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Monday 23 February 2004 10:21 am, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: Thinker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK.. I now have what appears to be a fairly stable Mandrake 10.0rc1 running on

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-02-24 Thread anton
See snapshot386.png I cut it in half to reduce the image size, but the result as you can see is what I got in my browser from your above url. It was the same with all the google leads except one, where the actual site didn't make that much sense to me.It wasn't obvious to me where the htmldoc