Re: [newbie] Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 04:47, Lee Wiggers wrote: I swear, I was just looking. Next thing I remember, I was sorting out my internet connection. For those in the uk similarly tempted but having only the diabolical bt connection, the 3-disk set

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 22:55, robin wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 21:30, Josenildo Marques wrote: In my share of the world they advertising they're selling any software

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread anton
Here in Turkey, Windows costs around $2 (Mandrake costs a bit more, because there are more CDs). To quote a local comedy show, Please don't use the word 'pirate'. We are art distributors. Here that OS would cost around US$3. But, you know what, I think it's still too expensive. :-) I once

Re: [newbie] Modem Woes-Problem solved

2004-03-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 20:21, Hoyt Bailey wrote: Consider those of us who live in never never land where computers are not common and linux users are rare. Where do you go for help to even get online. Mandrake 9.2 was the first dist I ever tried (outside of windows)

Re: [newbie] openoffice sous win et linux?

2004-03-19 Thread anton
Anne: You raise a good point. Back when I lived in Dilbert's world, I learned that even moving documents from one installation of MS Office to another -- even within the same version -- is not as simple as the MS advertisements might lead you to believe. We would get templates from A Higher

Re: [newbie] Modem Woes-Problem solved

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 21:38, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:59, Stephen Kuhn wrote: and documentation can be had by Googling and searching. But only if your modem works :-) Anne Is there no Googling under Winders? stephen

Re: [newbie] Modem Woes-Problem solved

2004-03-19 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 10:38:40 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Modem Woes-Problem solved -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:59, Stephen Kuhn wrote: and documentation

Re: [newbie] Modem Woes-Problem solved

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 11:16, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 21:38, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 09:59, Stephen Kuhn wrote: and documentation can be had by Googling

Re: [newbie] Touchpad Synaptics Driver Not Loading Properly

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:54 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 10:26 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone see any reason as to why it shouldn't work? I had to add an entry for evdev into my /etc/modprobe.preload file to get it to work. Do we have to enable

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 05:45 pm, anton wrote: I once read (possibly even on a mandrake list) that M$s biggest asset was that MOST of the world's programmers and sysadmins and certain almost all of the world's joe bloggs' are only comfortable

Re: [newbie] Test

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 23:49:26 -0500 Lee Wiggers disseminated the following: I just had two returned undelivered and they hit the list too. Must be a new feature. :0 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] { :0 /dev/null } :-) -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700 Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus maintaining its popularity. Bingo. -- JoeHill Registered

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 07:30 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700 Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the computer

Re: [newbie] Touchpad Synaptics Driver Not Loading Properly

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 07:01 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I added evdev as an entry, and the touchpad works fine now. Thanks for the help. - What evdev? Ow.. I didn't even notice it exist in the file :) I guess Mdk works in a

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Hasta Purnama
19/03/2004 19:07 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus maintaining its popularity. Just like drug dealer.First,they give the drug free.Once you

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:21:33 +1100 Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well this is an AMD XP2800 with 512MB and a decent dual DDR mobo. I don't see any hesitancy and no load when idle, but I get skips galore on That's quite odd, as xmms is usually low latency on such a system. I wonder

[newbie] battery is running but it isn't, really!

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I installed ACPI on my notebook, previously, out of the box mandrake gave me APM. But, from the list it said that ACPI is better, so I replaced APM with ACPI. Yes, it works. The fan now runs less often. But, something is bothering me

Re: [newbie] OT Streamripper

2004-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 10:42:04 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ftp the mp3's from newsgroups at 160KB/s. D/l three or four songs in the time it takes one to play. As you say, most I use an iSP provided alias to supernews so I have good access to newsgroups as well, but

Re: [newbie] Track Ripping with lame

2004-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 21:54:23 -0500 Marc Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got this error after trying to rip a track with Kaudiocreator. I urpmi'd lame and all, and made sure the command works: The encoded file was not created. Please check the encoder options. The wav file has been

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-03-19 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:05:07 -0500 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Reason why it's best to run from a term: that way, when you want to quit MLDonkey, you just close the GUI and then ctrl-c in the term to stop the Yeah, I finally figured that part out - mlnet. It isn't exactly clear, and it

Re: [newbie] Wierd supermounts

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 01:17 am, Kasper Thunoe wrote: Its the two lines I have indicated with . I have erased these two lines twice now but they keep returning. So how the heck do i get rid of this as they serve no purpose. TIA /Kasper Hi

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 20:01:03 +0700 Hasta Purnama disseminated the following: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus maintaining its popularity. Just like drug

[newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread brife
Hi all! When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice would be appreciated. I have a relatively simple configuration: Linux is the only OS on my laptop and I have a single HD partitioned into /, sv (swap), and /home

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...New error message

2004-03-19 Thread rhein
Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no

Re: [newbie] Problem mounting win2k partition...

2004-03-19 Thread Tom
Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 17 March 2004 10:08 pm, Tom wrote: I recently went through a little debacle with my boot sector...to make a long story short , I ended up cleaning things up by installing 10 and creating partitions. I then re-installed win2k over top. Yes lilo was

[newbie] somewhat OT Yahoo games

2004-03-19 Thread Marc
Has anyone been able to get yahoo online games to work with any linux browser and if so witch browser and java path. TIA Marc -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 10.0 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 14:30, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700 Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the computer users to keep using their product thus

Re: [newbie] somewhat OT Yahoo games

2004-03-19 Thread Job Evers
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:59:36 -0600 Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to get yahoo online games to work with any linux browser and if so witch browser and java path. Just tried to play a game of checkers with firefox and it worked fine. I installed the jsdk1.4 from Sun

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...New message

2004-03-19 Thread rhein
Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I get this error message. checking for gcc... no

Re: [newbie] somewhat OT Yahoo games

2004-03-19 Thread Marc
On Friday 19 March 2004 08:43 am, Job Evers wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:59:36 -0600 Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to get yahoo online games to work with any linux browser and if so witch browser and java path. Just tried to play a game of checkers with firefox

Re: [newbie] kmail

2004-03-19 Thread Amichai Rotman
On Thursday 18 March 2004 19:15, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I'm confused again. If I do a 'locate kmail' I find it and the documentation but konqueror going to the spot where locate says it is cant find anything. kpackage also cant find kmail, and 'browse avaliable' software cant find it with search.

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 19 March 2004 03:17 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 02:27, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anne: I just checked CompUSA prices (given as Full/Upgrade in USD): XP Pro: $299.99/$159.99* XP Home: $199.99/$99.99 2000 Pro:

Re: [newbie] installing openoffice quick launch...New message

2004-03-19 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 19 Mar 2004 14:50, rhein wrote: Alaa The Great wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:14:41 +0200 rhein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I tried to install openoffice quick launch... when I'm in console and running the configure script I

[newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Turner
I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great.

Re: [newbie] Power Off

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 11:57 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:48 am, Matthew Harrison wrote: Ok, I recently took my laptop to 100% Linux for the OS, and I do run Windows, but I run it the way it should be...with the ability

Re: [newbie] Problem mounting win2k partition...

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 13:50, Tom wrote: Yes, I seemed to fix it. I added a /similar/ line to fstab /dev/hda3 /mnt/windows ntfs defaults, uid= 501, gid=501 But Now I notice that it gives a warning about this line duting startup What is wrong

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Marcin Michalak
I had the same error with a 32b version. Do you install from CD? If so the cd you use might be bad. I tried to do network install and it worked (well, I had a different error and I still haven't installed the os, but that's different story). If installing from net is not good for you for

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 18 March 2004 02:11 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: You can use Cooker, but the last install I did was from Mandrake-devel/stable   folder. It worked great. derek Until 10.0 becomes Offical, 'stable' and 'cooker' are the same thing. Cooker is a direct link, stable is currently

RE: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Ayares, Mark (Mark)
Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine installsby using "linux ide=nodma" during the install. Mark -Original Message-From: Marcin Michalak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:25 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:41 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: screen #0:   dimensions:    1280x1024 pixels (374x302 millimeters)   resolution:    87x86 dots per inch   depths (7):    24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 I didn't try measuring in mm as I don't have a ruler that measures that well.

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 15:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anne: The $50 figure was probably based on a weighted average of retail and OEM sales. After all, most new PC's come with Windows preloaded in them. -- cmg You mean they pretend that those

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-19 Thread David Bachechi
No here is a NEWBIE question.what/where is the cooker? Sorry for the stupid question. Thanks though! Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 02:11 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: You can use Cooker, but the last install I did was from Mandrake-devel/stable folder. It worked great.

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Klemens Arro
On Friday 19 March 2004 14:47, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 07:30 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:07:03 +0700 Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: So, I think in some degree, MS is letting piracy to happen, because they know it is their way to dose the

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:46:38 -0500 brife disseminated the following: What I don't know is how an upgrade will affect my / and /home partitions. For the most part I have apps installed on the / partition and data installed on the /home partition. I'd like to keep some apps on the / partition

Re: [newbie] This is why I love this OS...

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 05:39:13 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: Reason why it's best to run from a term: that way, when you want to quit MLDonkey, you just close the GUI and then ctrl-c in the term to stop the Yeah, I finally figured that part out - mlnet. It isn't exactly

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 18, 2004 02:32 pm, John Zoetebier wrote: whack Mandrake web site mentiones explicitly that people who want a rock solid release should wait for Mandrake Official, which is relase 2 - 3 months after Community edition. Mandrake Community

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories]

2004-03-19 Thread David Bachechi
Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 08:50:52 -0700 From: David Bachechi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 09:50 am, David Bachechi wrote: No here is a NEWBIE question.what/where is the cooker? As to what/where... http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3has a mirror list, but factor in http://manu.agat.net/mandrake/mirrors_state.html See also

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Steve Turner
Hardware is all new. - Original Message - From: Ayares, Mark (Mark) To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 8:32 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Installation Problem Depending on how old the hardware is, I have had success with older machine

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 07:46 am, brife wrote: Hi all! When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice would be appreciated. I have a relatively simple configuration: Linux is the only OS on my laptop and I have

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-19 Thread David Bachechi
Thanks, Couple of questions. Is urpmi the backend of Mandrake update, or a totally different thing? If I use Mandrake update, does that pull from the same source as the cooker(specifically in mandrake 10CE)? Or should I be using urpmi exclusively? Thanks agian! Tom Brinkman wrote: On

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 08:17 am, Paul wrote: it's been said before, MS is happy to let windows get pirated, but come down heavy on office piracy. Paul M I haven't used Windoze for quite some time, don't even have it installed. BUT, back when I was disallusioned into runnin the latest,

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 16:10, Charlie Mahan wrote: It makes me feel and look stupid, and it doesn't do a Hell of a lot for MandrakeSoft's reputation either. MandrakeSoft can't do right, whatever they do. With recent versions they've been

Re: [newbie] Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread frankieh
I wasn't overly enamoured of 9.2 to be perfectly honest. While it was an improvement over 9.1 in many ways there were things that I didn't find user friendly. Some of the repetitive problems/posts on this and other lists are evidence of that IMHO. I have found that mandrake 9.2 makes a very

Re: [newbie] 10.0 online rpm repositories

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 11:26 am, David Bachechi wrote: Thanks, Couple of questions.  Is urpmi the backend of Mandrake update, or a totally different thing? Yes, and rpm is what urpmi uses. There won't be a security/bugfix repository until after 10-OE is released. For now it's cooker.

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 19, 2004 10:45 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 16:10, Charlie Mahan wrote: It makes me feel and look stupid, and it doesn't do a Hell of a lot for MandrakeSoft's reputation either. MandrakeSoft can't do right, whatever

Re: [newbie] LCD Monitor-Unusable signal

2004-03-19 Thread Troy Thomas Hall
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 18 March 2004 09:41 pm, Troy Thomas Hall wrote: screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (374x302 millimeters) resolution:87x86 dots per inch depths (7):24, 1, 4, 8, 15, 16, 32 I didn't try measuring in mm as I don't have a ruler that

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread John Drouhard
On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:05:40 -0600 Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 07:46 am, brife wrote: Hi all! When I go home tonight I'm planning on upgrading my laptop from 9.2 to 10. I've never been through this process so any advice would be appreciated. I

[newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages

2004-03-19 Thread taylord-angwyn
System: DSE Terminator 1100 Opsys: Mandrake 9.2 (Powerpack, recently installed) Problem: using Mozilla Firebird and Konqueror I cannot access any secure sites, eg those sites whose address begins https:// etc The statistics panel from kppp shows very low levels of activity which appears to be my

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread John Richard Smith
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 19:36, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip I've kicked this dead horse long enough. I'm dropping it. /snip Just to let you know, Charlie : You have been a tremendous help here on the list, and I would be very sorry indeed if you decide to leave. Kaj

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread et
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about hitting 'f1', if you get that far, but if

[newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

2004-03-19 Thread LtCdData
hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok however if i put in a 9.2 cd the intaller boots ok from that ok but fails on the 10.0 disk i have redone the cd1 at a slower speed and changed the cd drives around trying to fix it

Re: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: LtCdData [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 5:59 PM Subject: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok

Re: [newbie] Installation Problem

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 10:05, et wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 10:12 am, Steve Turner wrote: I got the following error while trying to install the 64 bit version: FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1 I/O Error It says it can't recover and I should reboot? Any help would be great. I agree about

Re: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

2004-03-19 Thread William Warren
known issue with the 10.0..boot from 10.0 disc 2 then switch back is the official workaround LtCdData wrote: hi the cd1 of mdk 10.0 community fails to boot up to the installer on one of my computers but does on the other ok however if i put in a 9.2 cd the intaller boots ok from that ok but

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 01:59 pm, John Drouhard wrote:     After you're up and runnin, I suggest you create cooker sources and update to current cooker.  Many many bugfixes. One question about this: I know about the new development process for Mandrake, but was wondering if the cooker

[newbie] .mpv + .mpa to .bin + .cue

2004-03-19 Thread JoeHill
I used the mencvcd script to convert an animated movie that started out as a 700 MB DivX, but it ended up being over 1 GB when converted to .mpv and .mpa files. I believe it is mplex that the script uses to convert those two files into a .bin and .cue to be burned as an SVCD. What I would like

[newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark G. Spencer
I downloaded 10.0 Community to test on my Gateway 200ARC laptop and am now downloading the AMD64 to test on my Shuttle SN85G4. How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-19 Thread Glenn
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 05:25, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, just for the record, I think that K3B uses dvd+rw tools for writing rather than cdrecord. XCDRoast uses cdrecord, IIRC. Could have something to do with that. You did mention from your command line that you were using growisofs and

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: - snip -8 /mild but accurate rant The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming release until cooker reached at least the RC stage. BUT, by then it was far

Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 03:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 19:36, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip I've kicked this dead horse long enough. I'm dropping it. /snip Just to let you know, Charlie : You have been a tremendous help here on the list, and I would be very sorry

Re: [newbie] mdk10 community wont boot to install

2004-03-19 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 19 March 2004 06:18 pm, William Warren wrote: known issue with the 10.0..boot from 10.0 disc 2 then switch back is the official workaround It looks like Warly figured out the problem too. It should be fixed in 10.0 official. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?

2004-03-19 Thread Glenn
On Friday 19 March 2004 17:00, Mark G. Spencer wrote: How do I install the kernel source for 10.0 Community? Has Mandrake left the kernel source off the ISO's again? Thanks for the advice, Mark I found the source for 2.6.3-4 on one at one of the cooker mirrors. You're correct, it

RE: [newbie] Kernel source for 10.0 Community?

2004-03-19 Thread Mark G. Spencer
Actually .. Maybe I was wrong. I used RPMDrake and searched for kernel .. I installed what looked like the correct kernel source from CD 3. I just compiled the latest Orinoco wireless driver and am rebooting to see if it worked. Mark -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-19 Thread ltcddata
hi i downloaded mdk10.0 community and put them onto cds. for some reason disk one wont boot from cd to allow me to install on this machine... but does on my other one?? just at the point where it says boot from cd .. the cd then spins up but fails to load then it goes to lilo. i have tried to burn

[newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-19 Thread ltcddata
hi i downloaded mdk10.0 community and put them onto cds. for some reason disk one wont boot from cd to allow me to install on this machine... but does on my other one?? just at the point where it says boot from cd .. the cd then spins up but fails to load then it goes to lilo. i have tried to burn

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 19 March 2004 10:21 am, Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 March 2004 15:07, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anne: The $50 figure was probably based on a weighted average of retail and OEM sales. After all, most new PC's come with Windows

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 19 March 2004 06:02 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: - snip -8 /mild but accurate rant The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming release until

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Marc Resnick
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 06:02 pm, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: - snip -8 /mild but accurate rant The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming

[newbie] upgrading from 9.2 to Cooker without cd's

2004-03-19 Thread John Drouhard
I have another question about upgrading to 10.0 so I thought I'd start a new thread. I have a local mirror of cooker. I would like to install it so I could have 10 + all bugfixes so far. However, I finally have my system set up perfectly, without any problems that I can see. I run my own 2.6

Re: [newbie] Idiot's Guide to DVD burning?

2004-03-19 Thread Glenn
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 05:25, Bryan Phinney wrote: Well, just for the record, I think that K3B uses dvd+rw tools for writing rather than cdrecord. XCDRoast uses cdrecord, IIRC. Could have something to do with that. You did mention from your command line that you were using growisofs and

Re: [newbie] Sudden power off, now Linux won't boot

2004-03-19 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 19 March 2004 02:43 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: I was about 20 feet from my computer, which was locked, when it finally stopped making noise, which never happens. I went and tried to unlock it, then I noticed it was off. So I figured this might've been an automatic shutdown I forgot to

Re: [newbie] somewhat OT Yahoo games

2004-03-19 Thread Chris
On Friday 19 March 2004 08:43 am, Job Evers wrote: On Fri, 19 Mar 2004 07:59:36 -0600 Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to get yahoo online games to work with any linux browser and if so witch browser and java path. Just tried to play a game of checkers with firefox

RE: [newbie] Wierd supermounts

2004-03-19 Thread Kasper Thunoe
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Re: [newbie] Re: Some positive reviews for 10.0 Community

2004-03-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 19 March 2004 04:02 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 03:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Friday 19 March 2004 19:36, Charlie Mahan wrote: snip I've kicked this dead horse long enough. I'm dropping it. /snip Just to let you know, Charlie : You have been a

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 19 March 2004 05:42 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Anne: The OEM price that you are quoting is the price for the OEM version, but that is far more than the Dell's and HP's are paying. Back during the days of the MS trial and subsequent settlement, it came out that major OEM's were

Re: [newbie] 9.2-10 upgrade advice

2004-03-19 Thread Hoyt Bailey
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 17:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: - snip -8 /mild but accurate rant The problem was and isn't the cooker developement process. The problem was _users_ who wouldn't install the upcomming release until cooker reached at least the RC stage. BUT, by

Re: [newbie] MS: 'We're very sorry'

2004-03-19 Thread frankieh
Erylon Hines wrote: To make matters worse, the OEM's don't include a real OS disk with their machines. The crippled crap disk included is a recovery disk which formats the HD and returns the machine to the factory mode. Truly useless, but the end users pay anyway. e. Not always, I can

[newbie] My public key

2004-03-19 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, Here is my public key: https://www.arinet.org/fajar-pub.key Thanks to Tim for reminding me. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org 12:36:22 up 56 min, Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 public

[newbie] Audigy 2 ZS Sound Problem fixed and here is what I did

2004-03-19 Thread Mandrake User
I recently did a clean installation of Mandrake 10.0 Community. The installation process lived up to Mandrake's fame as a user-friendly distro. Only problem I had was the Audigy 2 ZS sound card could not work. If you have the same problem, you might be interested to know that the optical raw

[newbie] Games Mandrake

2004-03-19 Thread achmad fauzi
hello,I has install Linux Mandrake 9.2 with gamespackage. But went Iexecute my games (exp : in category sport) that's run too slowly. My VGAcard is Nvidia GeForce 4. Processor AMD 1700++, RAM 256. May you can tell me why it's happen. thank you.Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File

Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake

2004-03-19 Thread Mandrake User
I tried games on Mandrake 9.2 as well and they were terribly slow. Currently, I am running Mandrake 10.0 Community but without games installed. Maybe you should try Mandrake 10.0? It is a big improvement to 9.2, in my opinion. --- achmad fauzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I has install Linux

Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake

2004-03-19 Thread frankieh
achmad fauzi wrote: hello, I has install Linux Mandrake 9.2 with games package. But went I execute my games (exp : in category sport) that's run too slowly. My VGAcard is Nvidia GeForce 4. Processor AMD 1700++, RAM 256. May you can tell me why it's happen. thank you. Do you Yahoo!? *Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake

2004-03-19 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 19 March 2004 09:50 pm, achmad fauzi wrote: hello, I has install Linux Mandrake 9.2 with games package. But went I execute my games (exp : in category sport) that's run too slowly. My VGAcard is Nvidia GeForce 4. Processor AMD 1700++, RAM 256. May you can tell me why it's happen.

Re: [newbie] Games Mandrake

2004-03-19 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 16:54, Mandrake User wrote: I tried games on Mandrake 9.2 as well and they were terribly slow. Currently, I am running Mandrake 10.0 Community but without games installed. Maybe you should try Mandrake 10.0? It is a big improvement to 9.2, in my opinion. System tuning -