Re: [newbie] Keep losing LAN settings

2004-03-02 Thread Johan
On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 17:19:54 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 01 March 2004 10:14 am, Johan wrote: No this is the workstation with the problem. The gateway is using suse 9.0 I would like to thank you very much for trying to solve this problem. No problem, that's why

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Powell
On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Did scribus need and dependencies ? just out of interest. John Hello John. I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I haven't given it

Re: [newbie] Strange sound problem

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Mike Adolf wrote: I do not get any sound at logon but do now get sound at restart. If this refers to kde 's own jingles , it's as flakey as hell, with some mobo's. Perfect with others. In my case it worked at first, they died , and has been ever since. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I haven't given it a really good test, yet. However, from

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Mozilla should have spotted that as a binary

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Keith Powell
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 10:37 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article on it in Linux Format magazine. So I

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 02:09 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice and K3b packages for MDK 10? What does this have to do with resizing a windows partition? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread Robin Turner
John Richard Smith wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:04:12 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Mozilla should have

RE: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Anne, I take it you have a double sided printer? After a quick look at scribus it does not seem to do the double sided printing, but that could be because it know's my printer will not do double sided. You could always put the paper back in the printer and print on the other side. Tony.

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Did scribus need and dependencies ? just out of interest. John Hello John. I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about it, having read an article

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 11:28, Keith Powell wrote: Leave it with me for a few days, Anne, until I have started to get to grips with Scribus. I'll get back to you as soon as I have found out if it will do booklets/brochures. Thanks Anne - --

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:30, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Anne, I take it you have a double sided printer? After a quick look at scribus it does not seem to do the double sided printing, but that could be because it know's my printer will not do

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
?? None! I can't understand how this mail came to you!! Sorry! --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 March 2004 02:09 am, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: Can you tell me where sre the latest OpenOffice and K3b packages for MDK 10? What does this have to do with resizing a windows

Re: [newbie] OpenOffice + K3b

2004-03-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 12:45, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: ?? None! I can't understand how this mail came to you!! Sorry! Dobrescu, perhaps the problem was a hijack. What it is, how it happens, and why it's a problem is explained at

[newbie] Thanks for the help

2004-03-02 Thread Pete Doak
Hi: Just wanted to drop a note and say thanks for all the help. I have the partition mounted now, and can access it just fine. Now . . . If I can only get 'Wine' to work;-) Thanks again Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mounting windows hard drive

2004-03-02 Thread Jose J. Cintron
Just add a line that looks something along the following to your fstab file the important part is the user option it basically allows users to mount the partition. /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd ntfs noauto,ro,users,umask=0222 0 0 Pete Doak wrote: Hello: I have a windows 98 system on a hard drive that I

[newbie] Installing Second Parallel Port

2004-03-02 Thread John Rye
I have need of a second parallel port to use my old parallel Epson GT5000 scanner. I've installed a Dolphin 2-port card which Harddrake lists as follows: Vendor: Timedia Technology Co Ltd Bus: PCI Bus identification: 1409:7268:1409:104 Location on the bus: 0:c:0 Description: SUN1888 Simple

Re: [newbie] rpmbuild

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Robin Turner wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: So what's this ncftp NC means ? Now copy ? ]# rpm -qa | grep ncftp ]# Ha, ftp://216.254.0.38/linux/Mandrake/updates/9.2/RPMS/ncftp-3.1.6-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm does it again, it's downloading something but where to? I'm going to stop it, and use d4x

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Did scribus need and dependencies ? just out of interest. John Hello John. I have only briefly tried Scribus, as I am just starting to find out about

[newbie] chmod?

2004-03-02 Thread rhein
Hello, I tried to make my win driver open to all user (me) but I don't know if I succeeded... Here is what I get when I hit return in the terminal emulator as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# chmod 777 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# Does it mean that it is done if there is nothing ?

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 07:44 pm, rhein wrote: -Hello, - -I tried to make my win driver open to all user (me) but I don't know if -I succeeded... -Here is what I get when I hit return in the terminal emulator as root: -[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# chmod 777 /mnt/win_c/ -[EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# -

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-02 Thread Paul
On 03/03/2004 01:44 AM, rhein wrote: Here is what I get when I hit return in the terminal emulator as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# chmod 777 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# Does it mean that it is done if there is nothing ? It means that the command is executed. Do an ls -l

Re: [newbie] chmod?

2004-03-02 Thread Anders Lindén
Here is what I get when I hit return in the terminal emulator as root: [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# chmod 777 /mnt/win_c/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] win_c]# Does it mean that it is done if there is nothing ? Usually you can use the -v switch with programs to get more verbose output. Try it and see

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Lanman wrote: I've found the rpms for scribus on 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0. There are two - scribus and libscribus IIRC, and I'm sure they're on the download CD's. Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 2/29/2004 at 9:58 PM Keith Powell wrote: Does anyone know if there is a Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-02 Thread Weiers Coetser
Interesting... I am still not sure if I am totally satisfied. I've been able to set the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen to be linked to specific desktops, but I am wondering about the icons on the desktop itself. Could I place icons or shortcuts on one desktop without them being visible on

Re: [newbie] Logitech Trackman Wheel working?

2004-03-02 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Littlefish Operator wrote: This is a stationary mouse with the big red thumb ball. Officially a USB device, it comes with the plug in PS2 adapter. Has anyone gotten this device working under Mandrake? I've been trying to get it configured (as a PS2 device) with no luck. Scott -- Nothing goes

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason I thought it did something else. Anyway I started up again, and now when I click on my login name it says Your saved session type 'kde' is not valid anymore. It does not give me the option to

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason I thought it did

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: I use Mandrake 10RC1. I was at the login screen, and I halted, for some reason

Re: [newbie] KDE won't start!

2004-03-02 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 3:28 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] KDE won't start! Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Troy Thomas Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Why not take the icons off the desktop(s) entirely; couldn't you then access each destop's icons from the taskbar ... or, alternatively, simply have the icons in folders on the desktop and just open the one you need for that desktop's apps? Probably more eloquent ways of doing it, but those occur

Re: [newbie] Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
Troy Thomas Hall wrote: Lanman wrote: I've found the rpms for scribus on 9.1, 9.2, and 10.0. There are two - scribus and libscribus IIRC, and I'm sure they're on the download CD's. Lanman Indeed, M9.1, CD2 /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS2/libscribus0-0.9.7-1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-02 Thread John Richard Smith
I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0. Xlib: extension

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

2004-03-02 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 27 February 2004 10:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 25 February 2004 03:39 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

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

2004-03-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 05:41 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if this is really worth troubling about, but everytime I do something that calls an app on the Cl I get this message. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# glxinfo name of display: :0.0 Xlib: extension GLX missing on display :0.0.

Re: [newbie] Four Desktops

2004-03-02 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 12:27:11 +0200 Weiers Coetser disseminated the following: Interesting... I am still not sure if I am totally satisfied. I've been able to set the Taskbar at the bottom of the screen to be linked to specific desktops, but I am wondering about the icons on the desktop

Re: [newbie] Default Versus Flat Lists On Download CD's - Was Scribus

2004-03-02 Thread aron Smith
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:16 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 02 Mar 2004 09:40, Keith Powell wrote: On Monday 01 Mar 2004 11:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Did scribus need and dependencies ? just out of interest. John Hello John. I have only

[newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-02 Thread g
Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake 9.2 I am currently using the Gnome desktop, and have tried synching with both jpilot as well as kpilot.

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2004-03-02 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-02 Thread Roland Hughes
Try USBView to see if the usb connection is recognized. Roly On Tuesday 02 March 2004 07:24 pm, g wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie and admit that I have little idea what I am doing. I am trying to get my Sony USB based palm pilot (model PEG-SJ22) to synch with built in programs under mandrake