[newbie] Lycoris: Cutting Edge Desktop

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
Okay, so I'm no big fan of KDE, but this is hilarious: When the secret processes were finished, up popped a login screen to a Lycoris-customized KDE 2.X desktop. KDE 2.X??!! LOL! Link: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=04/02/19/1455254 Heh. Hey, maybe they have that super advanced kernel

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: -Yes, good thinking, -I think usb-ohci,and usb-uhci, actually refers to usb ports that -are either built into the mobo or are, how do you call it, on a riser -board, and are attatched by cable to the

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

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: Big hairy things! I can't disagree with that ;-) ARGGGH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*()*^ still doesn't work (for me)! It

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

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: No KDE, no Gnome. What? Why? How? Actually, look in /etc/X11/dm/Sessions and make sure all the appropriate entries are there as well. -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 08:11 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So the ehci-hcd is a controller of the usb hub of some sort ? I am pretty sure that module is for the USB 2.0 Hub on your machine, same as mine. The uhci and I assume ohci on your machine should both be 1.1 USB hubs. --

RE: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread Tobias Cloete
Using 9.2 will solve the cd-burning problem. Gnome has a buitin cd-writing ability just like windows. Just drag and drop. When mounting a ntfs partition it is always read-only. One way to solve it its to backup all your data on the partition that has the documents and stuff (always create a extra

[newbie] USB mouse stops responding...

2004-02-25 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Hi All, Just a quick one here... I've got a USB mouse plugged into a Viao laptop and it works fine... But sometimes when I start DrakConf or start up an external USB ADSL modem the mouse stops responding. It's a bit of a weird one... Anyone know what might cause this? Thanks, Stevie :)

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread brife
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:04, Weiers Coetser wrote: I'm sorry but I don't know if I really understand or if my problem is even the same. I'm running a Dual System mode - Windows XP and Mandrake 9.1 with KDE. This is only my second week that I am involved with Linux in any form. I manage to

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

2004-02-25 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday 24 February 2004 10:31 pm, Thinker wrote: whack OK.. I chose cooker.. but what about these other options? 1. Show base distro sources? 2. Show specific sources too? And what should I do when it asks me to select a mirror? I have

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

2004-02-25 Thread Troy T. Hall
Thinker wrote: 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

[newbie] [OT] Medals in MOHAA

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
My ISP seems to be dropping mail from Franki's MDK games list, so I thought I would post this here, just in case there are other MOHAA fans out there like me. If you've ever wondered how to fill up your medal case, this runs it down for you:

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread robin
Ray Hogaboom wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread robin
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 06:22 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Thank you both. Hoyt, I never mentioned this previously because I usually like to see people try to get the completely OS sources working first, but there are alternate options if you need to get Windows apps to

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

2004-02-25 Thread robin
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:03:32 +1200 anton disseminated the following: Big hairy things! I can't disagree with that ;-) ARGGGH! My one real wish with 3.2 was to put the KDM blues (having to use GDM) behind me. Alac, alas, not to be! The piece of )*()*^ still doesn't work

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 16:04, robin wrote: Oh well, at least we have no problems with people using Outlook Express. That's because whenever a new PC arrives in the office, I uninstall it. Glad there's someone else as bolshie as me g If

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

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Smith
You should have an icon under Configuration Networking Guarddog. Run that, put in root password and turn on the services that you need. Thanks, Bryan! Paul _ It's fast, it's easy and it's free. Get MSN Messenger today!

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread frankieh
Have no idea if this has been answered or not.. but I've give it a shot anyway.. sounds to me like your XP partition is NTFS.. Linux can read NTFS fine, but can't write to it.. (well it can, but its probably as likely to trash the ntfs partition as it is to write to it.) so writing to NTFS is

[newbie] partial sound

2004-02-25 Thread Troy T. Hall
I'm using 10.0rc1 and for some reason I have sound if playing a music cd but not with any other type of sound file. I'm using Gnome. Anyone have any hints? As far as I know I've made sure the ARTS is not installed. Troy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] cdrdao problem

2004-02-25 Thread drake
I usually use gcombust to burn cds and haven't had any problems. Now I'm trying to burn a SVCD and I'm getting the following...Can anyone help? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 001]# cdrdao write -v 2 --device 0,0,0 svcd.cue Cdrdao version 1.1.7 - (C) Andreas Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] SCSI interface

Re: [newbie] [OT] Medals in MOHAA

2004-02-25 Thread frankieh
Hi Joe, I might know something about the list problem with your address.. it seems that my ISP has some other IP's other then my own, that have gotten onto a couple of backlists. so some overzealous ISP's are blocking the entire block of IP's.. ours included. I am working on sorting out the

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread John Richard Smith
Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 08:11 am, John Richard Smith wrote: So the ehci-hcd is a controller of the usb hub of some sort ? I am pretty sure that module is for the USB 2.0 Hub on your machine, same as mine. The uhci and I assume ohci on your machine should both

[newbie] Bad install

2004-02-25 Thread Rich and Cheryl Swanson
Greetings I am trying to get 10.0 RC1 installed but to no avail. The last beta installed just fine. The RC1 install goes along fine until I get to the installation of the boot loader. LILO is installed without my input (i'd rather use GRUB) then I get the initial install screen as if I were

[newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Thread Mike Adolf
Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the copy by drag drop. Do some vender products write CDs, linux can't read. I'm running MDK 9.1 mike Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Tue February 24 2004 4:34 pm, deedee wrote: On Tues, Feb 24, 2004, 12:54:16 PM, Ray Hogaboom wrote: snip You may not be aware of the fact that with Linux and X Windows you can have several desktops open at the same time on the same machine. I almost never print out documentation anymore.

Re: [newbie] Problems with wine

2004-02-25 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 11:06 am, robin wrote: Actually, you can get winex for free if you don't mind compiling it from source code. I am pretty sure, IIRC, that the source code version doesn't contain some of the routines for handling securom and other copy protection mechanisms, etc.

[newbie] Logical Volume Manager(LVM) in 10.0

2004-02-25 Thread Hoyt Bailey
It has been suggested that I consider LVM for partitioning 10.0rc1 but as yet there is no install support for LVM according to mandrake, yet code for LVM is included in 10.1. Would someone like to expound on this. Regards; Hoyt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Samsung CLP500N color laserprinter anyone?

2004-02-25 Thread Richard Urwin
The Epson Stylus Color 600 here is getting old. The inkjets keep blocking and the print quality is dire. Added to which, the thought of printing 100+ page manuals double sided with it is not filling me with enthusiasm. So I am looking at laser printers. With colour printing done at infrequent

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 14:09, Mike Adolf wrote: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the copy by drag drop. Do some vender products

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-25 Thread Joel
I believe the problem is with the XF file system. If you are using NTFS, you cannot write via Linux yet. (I believe that this is being worked on.) If however, you have a VFAT file system, you should be able to write successfully. That's the situation on my dual boot system. I can write just fine

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Thread Todd Slater
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:41:25PM +, Anne Wilson wrote: Content-Description: clearsigned data -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 25 February 2004 14:09, Mike Adolf wrote: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW.

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread deedee
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:10:49, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks for the info I am running KDE right now with 6 desktops. This is something I could not do with windows. Yes this is nice. With Windows XP I could open many different apps on one desktop and copy and past between them. But when trouble

Re: [newbie] cdrdao problem

2004-02-25 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 13:40, drake wrote: I usually use gcombust to burn cds and haven't had any problems. Now I'm trying to burn a SVCD and I'm getting the following...Can anyone help? Maybe this is the problem described below: When asking programs to burn a .cue file they will look for a

[newbie] Configuring Mozilla like Konqueror

2004-02-25 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I would like to configure Mozilla browser fonts likewise Konqueror. I have tried all Helvetic fonts of Mozilla, but I could not imitate Konqueror default fonts. Could someone here please help me, in case such a configuration is possible? Thank you a lot in advance! Paul

[newbie] annoying administrator messages

2004-02-25 Thread Todd Slater
Is anybody else getting these messages from mmgc.com about Symantec finding suspicious attachments to mail to the list? If the text footer is Symantec's idea of a suspicious attachment . . . Todd -- Reclaim the flag: http://www.pbs.org/now/commentary/moyers19.html Want to buy your Pack or

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

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Not Booting, Error in root partition!--- More Info!!! Marc Resnick wrote: Hardware messed up...you don't mean like...physical

[newbie] Upgrade 10RC1

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
Once you have Mandrake 10RC1 installed, is it possible to upgrade to 10 when it is released, or must you download, burn, and install again? If so I might as well start downloading now. Maybe I should save some of my wireless config files with PM first...yes, that would be a good idea...

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

2004-02-25 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Tue February 24 2004 3:17 pm, deedee wrote: 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

[newbie] Linksys printer server and linux howto ?

2004-02-25 Thread Dennis Myers
Does anyone have a print server running like above? A small single printer PSUS4 usb printer server. I have the network set up and can ping the server, and once had a test print from the linux side but now have lost it. I think that I am using an incorrect ip address or port. Any help out

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Tue February 24 2004 10:25 pm, Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf wrote: 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.

Re: [newbie] [OT] Medals in MOHAA

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:41:43 +0800 frankieh disseminated the following: I might know something about the list problem with your address.. it seems that my ISP has some other IP's other then my own, that have gotten onto a couple of backlists. so some overzealous ISP's are blocking the

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Wed February 25 2004 3:30 pm, deedee wrote: On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:10:49, Ray Hogaboom wrote: Thanks for the info I am running KDE right now with 6 desktops. This is something I could not do with windows. Yes this is nice. With Windows XP I could open many different apps on one desktop and

Re: [newbie] Upgrade 10RC1

2004-02-25 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 04:22 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Once you have Mandrake 10RC1 installed, is it possible to upgrade to 10 when it is released, or must you download, burn, and install again? If so I might as well start downloading now. Maybe I should save some of my wireless config files with

Re: [newbie] Linksys printer server and linux howto ?

2004-02-25 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 04:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone have a print server running like above? A small single printer PSUS4 usb printer server. I have the network set up and can ping the server, and once had a test print from the linux side but now have lost it. I think that I am using

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 19:47, Ray Hogaboom wrote: I have a Pentium 1 100 MHz desk top It will have 64 megs of ram. I want to use for firewall, router. Install two NIC cards eth0 would connect to DSL modem. Then eth0 bridged to eth1 connected to a hub that provides wired and wireless

Re: [newbie] Upgrade 10RC1

2004-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:22 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Once you have Mandrake 10RC1 installed, is it possible to upgrade to 10 when it is released, or must you download, burn, and install again? If so I might as well start downloading now. Maybe I should save some of my wireless config

Re: [newbie] Upgrade 10RC1

2004-02-25 Thread Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:58 pm, Lanman wrote: Marc; In case you haven't noticed, most of the dificulties we've seen on the list in the last few weeks have been related to systems that were upgraded in one form or another. KDE, Kernels, K3B, KKK ( oops! Now How'd that get in there? ),

[newbie] The Shuttle SB62G2 and Mandrake Linux - A Marriage Made In Heaven?

2004-02-25 Thread JoeHill
*Warning: Geek Pr0n* http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=491 -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ 18:16:35 up 20 days, 6:01, 4 users, load average: 1.67, 1.26, 1.14 +++ Linux 2.4.22-21mdk i686

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Robert Walker
Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: Example My P3 450 mhz with 120 megs ram running XP Pro would run circles around my wife's Laptop P4 2.3 Gz with 512 megs ram Running XP Home. Hi Ray, My understanding of the Intel processor architecture strategy to push more speed out of

Re: [newbie] Linksys printer server and linux howto ?

2004-02-25 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:06 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 25, 2004 04:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone have a print server running like above? A small single printer PSUS4 usb printer server. I have the network set up and can ping the server, and once had a test print from the

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 07:23 pm, Robert Walker wrote: Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 6:47:52 PM, you wrote: Example My P3 450 mhz with 120 megs ram running XP Pro would run circles around my wife's Laptop P4 2.3 Gz with 512 megs ram Running XP Home. Hi Ray, My understanding of the Intel

Re: [newbie] Linksys printer server and linux howto ?

2004-02-25 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 08:20 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 04:06 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 25, 2004 04:39 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Does anyone have a print server running like above? A small single printer PSUS4 usb printer server. I have the network set up and

Re: [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-02-25 Thread Lanman
On February 25, 2004 09:32 pm, Lanman wrote: Some, like the Asus D1T Delgatto run full-blown P4's! Actually, just like the one I'm using to type this reply to your post! Yup! Full P4-2.4Ghz @400Mhz. FSB, with 512 Mb's of DDR 400 RAM, and a big ole Toshiba 40 Gb drive with a 16Gb buffer (cache)

Re: [newbie] dalziel-1.2b

2004-02-25 Thread Ron Stodden
Dalziel users and prospective users: Two news items: One: dalziel-1.2b is now available (see sig to download). -- dalziel 1.2b released. -- include/exclude reworked. -- includes from '+' corrected. -- total space saving now shown. -- estimated

[newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-25 Thread Aron Smith
I know we covered this about an eon ago but can anyone tell me how to untar a .bz2 file? Thanks Smitty (who can't remember his name sometimes :-( Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] stupid newbie question

2004-02-25 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mandrake List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:47 PM Subject: [newbie] stupid newbie question I know we covered this about an eon ago but can anyone tell me how to untar a .bz2 file? Thanks

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

2004-02-25 Thread anton
I had the same problem - changing to mdkkdm fixed it. wow! talk about weird response! nobody took much notice of the message and now lots of people reply. That's not the weird thing though - The source says this (my original one) was sent on the 30/08/2008. WTF?!? That is bizarre. And cheers

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 15:06:44 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want one which will allow me to provide the pictures for the images. I have a copy of RH7.2 which has a good one but I need more corage. My current KDE allows me to do that. When I installed cooker beta 2 a few weeks

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:47:02 +0200 Amichai Rotman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to install the package from RH7.2? You can remove it if unsuccessful... Probably that would not work as it has differing dependencies, differing versions for libraries, and so on. But likely there's an

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 13:02:40 -0600 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whew! I thought I had made a major miss there. Schedule shows that rc1 was supposed to be out last friday but nothing showing yet. Warly schedule says I have rc1 bittorent file if you would like it. 152k. --

Re: [newbie] Screensavers

2004-02-25 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 23:11:16 -0600 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I dont know what happened to the rest of the screensavers but I cant find them and cant download any from mandrake (urpmi screensaver). But that You do have main contrib sources defined for your version? (cooker here)

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-25 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 07:12:29 -0500 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 05:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Yes, good thinking, I think usb-ohci,and usb-uhci, actually refers to usb ports that are either built into the mobo or are, how do you call it,

Re: [newbie] Quiet Tonight

2004-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
El jue, 26-02-2004 a las 00:40, Greg Meyer escribi: It's kind of quiet tonight. Everyone must be over at Groklaw watching Eben Moglen's speech at Harvard. Finally, the list has answered all remaining questions and no one has a single problem anymore. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] How to read windows CD?

2004-02-25 Thread Damian Gatabria
El mi, 25-02-2004 a las 11:09, Mike Adolf escribi: Is there some trick to reading a CD written in Windose. I have a Liteon DVD+/-R CD+/-RW. I wrote it with SONIC's produce MyDEV, I think! I did the What do you get when you try to browse with Linux? any error messages? try, as root: umount