Re: [newbie] vectorlinux? Too much choices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, Thank you for all your answers and now I'm confused with all the solutions... Not used to that after all the years with windows ;-) If I get it wright I can use MDK also with that config... and I have it already on cd. (save a lot of download time). I need a Xwindow program like Kde... If

[newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, Last night I was looking to create a usr partition using diskdrake under Mandrake Control Center...Then I could not understand why I have a mnt hda5 partition called win_d (it shows /r on the file system. So I went to see my storage devices and there I found this: Device Type Size MountP

[newbie] Firewall

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, I tried to setup a firewall since my notebook will be personal... I went to mandrake control center and removed the cross in no firewall at the Drakfirewall.(I left all the boxes blank... hope this is good so) Then It asked me if I want to install the shorewall package. I clicked ok. I

[newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio cd's but nothing else. I double click'd on an mp3 and it opened xmms, which looked as if it was playing

[newbie] Sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
ok, not quite solved. I have no mpg or mpeg sounds. -- Troy T. Hall Registered Linux User #342150 Mandrake Club Member Abilene, KS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Using CD-RW with K3b

2004-03-06 Thread richard barran
Very true, and we could also add that older CD-ROM drives (or hifi CD players) can fail to read CD-RW disks completely, no matter what is written on them. The subject of burning to CD can become very messy very quickly :-( Le Samedi 6 Mars 2004 00:23, Bryan Phinney a écrit : Well, the subject

Re: [newbie] Need help installing SATA drive!!!(Please help)

2004-03-06 Thread Paul
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 02:46, DC A wrote: Yes I tried 10 but it's taking a long time to load. I donno why thorugh. (I tried to auto allocate 20GB for linux and it's taking more than an hour and still it's formatting) So I donno whether I'll be able to linux on this system. Is there any other

Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was able to hear audio

Re: [newbie] Sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:21, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: ok, not quite solved. I have no mpg or mpeg sounds. xmms plugins? Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 15:21, rhein wrote: 2/ There is no such D drive on my win partition. I have one big 14,6 GB for windows. Where does it come from?? It's small - could this be one of those systems with a hidden restore partition? OTOH, I

[newbie] KolourPaint 1.0.1 Seagull

2004-03-06 Thread _nasturtium
Hello, You might like to try KolourPaint, a really good paint program for KDE. You can download Mandrake 9.2 packages at kolourpaint.sf.net. The pages list all the features, so I won't go over them all here. I just want to highlight some of the novel and useful features in

Re: [newbie] OT - IE reject messages

2004-03-06 Thread _nasturtium
Hi, On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 10:09 am, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:05:09 + Margot disseminated the following: If things carry on as they are currently going, many of those aspiring young lawyers at Harvard Law School will one day be participating in Darl's spurious lawsuits - now

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 01:22, David B. Carter wrote: Derek Jennings said: The modprobe snd-cs-4236 loads the driver. But it will not load on the next boot unless you configure /etc/modules.conf. That is what alsaconf is supposed to do for you, but for some reason alsaconf is unable to

[newbie] Bittorent download won 't work

2004-03-06 Thread Bart Salien
Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works . I always get the following error : Problem connecting to tracker - HTTP Error 404: Not Found The ip

Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work

2004-03-06 Thread et
On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:51 am, Bart Salien wrote: Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works . I always get the following error : Problem

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2004-03-06 Thread Margot
rhein wrote: Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no hdlist file found for medium contrib problem

Re: [newbie] rpmdrake

2004-03-06 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Saturday 06 March 2004 06:09, rhein wrote: Hello, I try to use rpmdrake to add a medium (contrib file) and I get this error message after a long time of waiting... Unable to update medium... Errors: urpmi database locked urpmi database locked retrieve of source hdlist failed no hdlist

Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work

2004-03-06 Thread Bart Salien
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 11:59, et wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:51 am, Bart Salien wrote: Hi all , After 1/2 a day of trying i still can 't download the new 10.0 iso . I am behind a NAT router , so i opened ports 6881 = 6889 and 6969 and 7070 , tried DMZ , but nothing works .

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Hello, My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 directories: = a system volume information with a file _restore{2F3FC359-5C9C-424F-B0EF-325C191C6F2E} = recycled with a nprotect

Re: [newbie] Bittorent download won 't work

2004-03-06 Thread Glenn
On Saturday 06 March 2004 07:45, Bart Salien wrote: Got it working , had to reboot my pc after editing download.py I have limited upload to 2K , but download isn 't going any faster than 1k . Don 't like leaving ports open for 360 hours . Greetings , Bart. The download speed

Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound with a Cmedia chipset ( 1878?). I was

Re: [newbie] SOLVED: sound card problems

2004-03-06 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:16 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:11, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: I don't know if this will help anyone or not but I just accidently solved my sound problems. I had the same problem with no sound

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:50:50PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 05 March 2004 07:31 pm, Todd Slater wrote: These do not support Ogg Vorbis yet. From tech support: Currently our CD based players do not support OGG file format. There is no ETA as to when this may be offered. I

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with oggs encoded up to 168kbs. The player may choke or skip parts if

[newbie] ML 10.0 problems

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Myers
Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through the boot up fine but 2.6.xx ends with just a blank screen

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 10:37:38AM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:15 am, Todd Slater wrote: Proving once again that good help is hard to find! ;-) According to those pages, then, the cd-based players iMP250+ have the firmware upgrade, but it's beta and works with

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread Mike Adolf
On Friday 05 March 2004 08:23 pm, David B. Carter wrote: Mike Adolf said: I have not read all the correspondence on this problem, so I may be suggesting something already tried. I also have the same sound system as you. For a long time I used 4236 driver (on MDK 91) and I could play CDs

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote: Hello, My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror there are 2 directories: = a system volume

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver CD players

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 11:03 am, Todd Slater wrote: Greg, do you encode by specifying bitrate or quality level? I typically encode at as low as -q 3 to save disc space (playing oggs on a Zaurus using CF), which reports a nominal bitrate of 112. Just wondering if you've found a good -q level

Re: [newbie] problems with Nvidia video card and its driver

2004-03-06 Thread Philip Cronje
Hi Juan Firstly, the driver you have is old. The newest driver is version 1.0.5336. Just so you know. In your XF86Config-4, you have the following lines: Section Device Identifier device1 Driver vesa Option DPMS EndSection That driver line there has to be set to nvidia. I can't

[newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Chris
I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. Chris -- Regards Chris A 100% Microsoft free computer Registered

Re: Linux vs Windos WAS : [newbie] Re: Using i486s with Linux

2004-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:11:27 -0500 Allen/gore/SlackWareWolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now if only HP would sell desktops and laptops running HP-UX :) I can get Linux and install it, hell this is an HP Why? :) Another problem these hardware makers have is using integrated hardwareFor

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed. Any help would be appreciated. I am pretty sure that

Re: [newbie] Questions with storage devices

2004-03-06 Thread rhein
Ok Thanks for the tip Christophe Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 06 March 2004 21:01, rhein wrote: Hello, My swap file is hd7 with 494MB and it is different from this hd5 called /mnt/win_d with 525 MB. When I click on this win_d (hd5) in Konqueror

[newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Thinker
I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I get out of KDE and stop what services I can BEFORE

Re: [newbie] 10.0 Community available to club members...

2004-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 21:37:50 -0700 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIRC, wait three weeks and you, too, can download the 3-ISO set. Just one of the benefits of club membership. Look at it this way, once it's spread more Or, don't wait at all, if you've had access to the Cooker repository

[newbie] Problem with sharing ADSL on mdk 10

2004-03-06 Thread Klemens Arro
Hi, This is actually my first post ever to any mailing list :-S So here is my problem, I use Mandrake 10.0 (ftp/coocer). I am sharing my ADSL (pppoe), I configured it with drakeconnect and here are results from syslog: Mar 6 19:16:24 nolife shorewall: Loading /usr/share/shorewall/functions...

Re: [newbie] Spamassassin CPAN Question

2004-03-06 Thread Chris
On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:32 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 12:04 pm, Chris wrote: I installed spamassassin 2.63 a few weeks ago via CPAN leaving the old 2.41 intact. Looking at the CPAN install log I can't seem to decipher where the newer version has been installed.

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 04:02 pm, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 06 Mar 2004 21:02, Thinker wrote: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other things are running. Should I

Re: [newbie] making 10.0rc1 into 10.0 release via cooker.

2004-03-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:52:46 -0500 Thinker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So.. you are saying that I can reinstall with the 10.0rc1 disks I made a few weeks ago and go to the cooker and update that to what is the Barring goofs like getting the boot table fubar'd (that has happened to me in the

Re: [newbie] Problem with sharing ADSL on mdk 10

2004-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 05 Mar 2004 22:45, Klemens Arro wrote: SNIP Thanks, but it didn't help, shorewall started but I still can't share my ADSL. As for the question, no I didn't put it there, Mandrake Controll Center internet connection sharing tool put it there. Here is /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

Re: [newbie] bad superblock

2004-03-06 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-03-06 at 19:50, Brian Parish wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-07 at 08:54, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello ! I installed 9.2 for a friend of mine and everything went smoothly. I even updated it completely. His computer had a Windows partition and I decided to turn it into a /home

Re: [newbie] vectorlinux? Too much choices

2004-03-06 Thread deedee
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 10:15:01, Christophe Rhein wrote: Hello, Thank you for all your answers and now I'm confused with all the solutions... Not used to that after all the years with windows ;-) If I get it wright I can use MDK also with that config... and I have it already on cd. (save a lot of

[newbie] boomshakalaka (ignore)

2004-03-06 Thread Floyd Hagen
just seeing if a changed setting will get my emails through to this list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] can't compile a file with -static

2004-03-06 Thread Chungwei Hsiung
Hello everyone.. I have a simple file and I try to compile it with -static flag, but I can't. I use: gcc -o shellcode -ggdb -static shellcode.c but I got the following error:: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc collect2: ld returned 1 exit status my test file is the following: #include stdio.h int

[newbie] HP scanner with SCSI card

2004-03-06 Thread Owen Berio
My HP 4P scanner worked fine with an Adaptec SCSI card in Windows 2000 I installed the card and attached scanner. HardDrake recognizes the SCSI card as a Adaptec AHA 7850 ScannerDrake does not find a scanner. When I manually install the scanner it is listed in list of HP scanners. After supposed

Re: [newbie] ML 10.0 problems

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot. the 2.4.xx kernel or the 2.6.xx kernel. Both go through

[newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Beach
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread David B. Carter
Mike Adolf said: That's great! I'll give it a try as soon as I get a chance. Did you run alsaconf to autodetect the card using that driver? Or did you just manually configure it and it worked? I probably won't get a chance to try it tonight, and I'm going to be out of town tomorrow, but I'll

[newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread Robert Beach
I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many to use. If I could

Re: [newbie] New Linux User - Need Help with Sound in New 9.2 Install

2004-03-06 Thread David B. Carter
Derek Jennings said: Given that your soundchip was not detected on installation, or that alsaconf fails to detect it, then I suspect you may may a problem with IRQ conflicts. If you type 'dmesg' in a terminal you will see all the boot messages. If you scroll up you may see some clues

Re: [newbie] ML 10.0 problems

2004-03-06 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases that I have had such a mess. I have two choices on boot.

Re: [newbie] dvd plugin for xine

2004-03-06 Thread marc resnick
Robert Beach wrote: I have a 850 AMD cpu 640 megs of ram GForce TI 4400 AGP Tyan Motherboard I have been surfing for the plugins for xine so I can play dvds in Mandrake 9.2 I am still new at this and all the different rpms and tars I find are confusing. I'm not sure which one to use or how many

Re: [newbie] ML 10.0 problems

2004-03-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:45 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 09:18 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 06 March 2004 08:42 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Hi all, I have the 5 CD set of 10.0 and it is not playing nicely with my comp. This is the first time of all the releases

[newbie] Kthememanager

2004-03-06 Thread marc resnick
Does anyone know the name of the package with the KDE Theme Manager in it? Thanks --Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Lost gnome-panel after installing 4.4.0 XFree86 on 9.2 AMD64

2004-03-06 Thread Guy Rouillier
I installed the AMD64 binary version (yes, on an AMD64 system) of XFree86 4.4.0, downloaded from the XFree86.org site. I installed on an eMachines M6805, and I'm pleased to say that I've been able to get the native 1280x800 resolution on the LCD, and I've been able to simultaneously drive an