[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Down

2004-03-11 Thread andrew . lundy
Hi, When I go to start Mandrake Control Center or click Configure My Computer it prompts me for the root password and after that it just hangs on the splash and just says Loading... please wait at the bottom, but never actually loads. It had worked fine previously. I'm not sure this has anything

Re: [newbie] Re: Re: Copying Files from CDROM

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 02:40, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anne: The 9.2 PowerPack includes the source for a number of kernels, but they were omitted from the download and standard sets to keep them within the 3 CD limit. -- cmg That's what I

Re: [newbie] Modify my home directory

2004-03-11 Thread Raffaele Belardi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But if I mount my empty space to /home MCC asked me if I want to transfer the files to the new partition... SO in that case I do not loose my user files? I guess that if MCC offered to move the files for you, you'll not loose them... but I seldom use MCC, I prefer the

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-11 Thread rhein
Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So what did I wrong?

Re: [newbie] Firewal not working...

2004-03-11 Thread rhein
Hello, I opened port 80 by typing tcp/80 udp/80 in the advanced panel of the firewall setup. Still no access to the net. I removed all the firewall and I can connect again. What did I wrong? Christophe Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 10 March 2004 01:24 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: rhein wrote:

Re: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread Brian Parish
On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:44, Ron Joordens wrote: Good Afternoon, I bought the Fixes cdrom along with Mandrake 9.2 but can't figure out how to use it. Anyone? Ron Melbourne Hi Ron, You can use Software Media Manager under Software Management in drakconf to add this as a security updates

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-11 Thread Marc Resnick
rhein wrote: Hello, I did what you said and the computer started but no power indicator... When I go to the config panel I have still the message telling me to install the acpi soft. I checked again the installation and it is installed. The lilo config file has the nolapic written in it. So

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

2004-03-11 Thread David B. Carter
David B. Carter said: I'm getting really frustrated with this sound problem! This morning I dug up an old SoundBlaser AWE32 card I had packed away, and I installed it in the machine I've been having trouble with. I disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS, I removed all references to sound

RE: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread andrew . lundy
Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish

[newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much like to hear from you and find out exactly how you did it! Many thanks

RE: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread Brian Parish
See below - bottom posting preferred on this list On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 22:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could

[newbie] mcc 10

2004-03-11 Thread Lee Wiggers
I'm in mdk 10 on my laptop purely by accident. (Don't ask) No Internet connection: MCC Internet Access brings up a Warning: You don't have any configured Internet connection. Please run Internet Access in control center. I figure I have two choices. Go around in circles for a day or two,

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom

Re: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 11:38:42 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input

[newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread John Richard Smith
Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? John ASCII - American Standards Code umm umm - can't remember the rest g It's just

Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:55 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:50, John Richard Smith wrote: - Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc - - So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? - - John - -ASCII - American Standards Code umm umm - can't remember the

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:27, Keith Powell wrote: I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has

RE: [newbie] Modify my home directory

2004-03-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All you have done is created /home in what was your empty space. MCC is helping you by moving the files across so you don't lose anything. You have 2 options either use the previous suggestion or (somebody jump in if I am wrong) reinstall would be the easiest way to restructure your drive. If

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-11 Thread rhein
Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI software installed, or doesn't have the APM

[newbie] Mac - Mandrake at the CLI

2004-03-11 Thread Brian's Linux Box
Hello All, I need to transfer some files that I downloaded on my Mandrake Box to my Mac. I am running samba on both machines, so they can see each other on the network. The problem I am having is, when I open nautilus on my mandrake box

[newbie] drivers for zip drive

2004-03-11 Thread Gustavo O. Bonilla Rodriguez
Hello, I installed MDK 9.1 in a laptop Dell Latitude and tried to mount the zip drive using the usual /dev/sda4 driver, but couldn't find it. How can I install a suitable driver for 100 and 250Mb iomega zip drives? thanks, Gustavo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

RE: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread Tony S. Sykes
If you like google you love this, http://www.theregister.com/content/55/36142.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]

[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Ray Hogaboom
HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. My question is What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before installing 10.0. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) -- Ray

[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Ray Hogaboom
HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) -- Ray Hogaboom Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:26 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete install of 10.0

Re: [newbie] ftp://ftp.sunsiMandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc

2004-03-11 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 11, 2004 05:50 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ? John just kidding! Lots of good guesses. I _have_ answered this question on this list

[newbie] Re: Re: compile asm in C

2004-03-11 Thread Björn Lundin
Chungwei Hsiung wrote: Thanks for the reply. I really appreciate it. My story is a little bit different.. I just copy the codes you modified to a file and I compile it. I have the following error message that I had before. Any other thoughts?? $cat asmExit.c void main() { __asm__(

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Rich and Cheryl Swanson
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 07:26 am, Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:06 pm, Rich and Cheryl Swanson wrote: I don't think you can install directly from ISO image files, they have to be expanded or whatever you do to ISO files before you can use them You can mount the first iso only as a loopback and boot from it to do a basesystem

Re: [newbie] Linux and power on notebook?

2004-03-11 Thread rhein
Keith wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, rhein wrote: Ok now I have the the laptop power management icon on the right site of my panel but... it sais Laptop power management not available. When I open it I have this written Your computer doesn't have the Linux APM (Advanced Power Management) or ACPI

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings

[newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-11 Thread Poogle
I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to press enter to install etc then gives a message could not

RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-11 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Poogle Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 1:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish) I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent

Re: [newbie] Message to Remote Host

2004-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 11 March 2004 19:47, JoeHill wrote: On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 14:47:17 - Tony S. Sykes disseminated the following: smbclient -M hostname but it does not seem to work with ip address's on my system. But on win2k you can use ip

[newbie] Looking for a program to view pdf documents

2004-03-11 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am looking for a program to view pdf documents, but with search facility. I know that I could use Acrobat Reader, but its Linux version looks horrible... I guess it misses anti-aliasing fonts. Thank you a lot in advance! Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 11 March 2004 13:54, Keith Powell wrote: On Thursday 11 Mar 2004 12:47 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Keith, I'm still in 9.1, but it works fine here. I don't remember any specific problems. Have you got aspell installed? My settings are: Dictionary ASpell Default

Re: [newbie] Looking for a program to view pdf documents

2004-03-11 Thread Paul
On 03/11/2004 09:12 PM, Paul Smith wrote: I am looking for a program to view pdf documents, but with search facility. I know that I could use Acrobat Reader, but its Linux version looks horrible... I guess it misses anti-aliasing fonts. xpdf searches fine... -- The hardest person to awaken

RE: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread Ron Joordens
Title: RE: [newbie] Fixes CD Thanks Brian, I actually managed to figure it out, but I appreciate your response. Ron -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 March 2004 9:54 PM To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Fixes CD On Wed, 2004-03-10

Re: [newbie] KWord spell checking

2004-03-11 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 12:27 pm, many eyes viewed Keith Powell's words:- I have been having another attempt at getting spell checking in KWord (1.2.92) to work, but again I have had no success. If anyone has got it working (preferably with English-United Kingdom spellings), I would very much

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?

2004-03-11 Thread robin
Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. My question is What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before installing 10.0. (I want a complete install of 10.0

Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-11 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 11 March 2004 11:03 am, Poogle wrote: I got CDs 1-3 (bittorrent worked for me), md5sums checked o.k and then burnt them from the command line using cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -eject /home/(path snipped)/Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Powerpack-CD1.i586.iso CD1 boots to press

[newbie] Howto select user-defined menu icon

2004-03-11 Thread John Zoetebier
Hi list, I tried to assign a user-defined icon to a menu item. However all files are greyed out, regardles of extension, like xpm, png etc. I use menudrake for creating menus. How can I assign a user-defined icon to a menu ? -- John Zoetebier Web site: http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy

Re: [newbie] 10 Powerpack CD1 woes (longish)

2004-03-11 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 March 2004 01:21 pm, Poogle wrote: Thanks, but this was bittorrent, md5sums on the ISO's said O.K, I forgot to add in my original post that I had tried booting from CD 2 and then changing to CD 1 when asked, that gave the same result Your iso's are only OK, _IF_ you check

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu March 11 2004 10:53 am, Greg Meyer wrote: Can 10.0 be installed from ISO files on my hard drive. (I want a complete install of 10.0 not upgrade.) As long is home is a separate partition and you have no plans to resize, you're safe there. I would really just keep a copy of /etc

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.0 Community Pre-install ?

2004-03-11 Thread Ray Hogaboom
On Thu March 11 2004 6:13 pm, robin wrote: Ray Hogaboom wrote: HI I downloaded Mandrake 10.0 yesterday from ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-iso/i586/ it took about 5 hours to download the 3 iso files. My question is What Mandrake 9.2 directories should I make copies of before

Re: [newbie] synching with Sony usb palm pilot pda

2004-03-11 Thread g
Thanks to the folks who responded. Well, I just wanted to let folks know that it seems to pretty much be working now. Not sure what I did. Actually to tell the truth, I am not sure that it WASNT working before! I may not have either had all the conduits activated nor known where to look to

[newbie] Updated xfce

2004-03-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
xfce-4.0.4 rpms for both 9.2 and 10.0 are now available from my site urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/ with hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia eslrahc http://www.eslrahc.com/9.2/ with hdlist.cz A note on the 9.2 rpms. Because I did not adjust for the usage of the nvidia driver on the

Re: [newbie] Updated xfce

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:04:24 -0500 Charles A Edwards wrote: A note on the 9.2 rpms. Because I did not adjust for the usage of the nvidia driver on the build system it is possible that an unsatisfied X depend may be present. This can be safely circumvented by usage of --allow-nodeps. So

Re: [newbie] Updated xfce

2004-03-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:22:42 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you have the nvidia drivers installed it should be ok ? Or have i got it backwards ? It just requires a dependency which will not be supplied unless you also have the nvidia driver installed It is safe to ignore

Re: [newbie] Updated xfce

2004-03-11 Thread Dan Gordon
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:30:21 -0500 Charles A Edwards wrote: It just requires a dependency which will not be supplied unless you also have the nvidia driver installed It is safe to ignore this dependency and install using --allow -nodeps Ok understanding now, was a long day, and as

[newbie] About Dlink DWL revP wireless card

2004-03-11 Thread Pravin R Joshi
Title: About Dlink DWL revP wireless card Anybody, I would like to know if the new version (10) of Mandrake Linux supports the DLINK DWL 650 revP (with Prism 3 chipset) wireless network card. Thanks. Pravin