[newbie] playing .WMV files

2004-03-22 Thread Tadimeti Keshav
Hi I have MDK 9.1, I am not able to play .WMV movie files. Has any one had success with this? How about .WMA audio files? THanks Tk ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly..."Ping" your friends toda

[newbie] Mandrake 10 -- Excellent...but...

2004-03-22 Thread John Wilson
First of all I have to say that MDK 10 is very pleasing eye candy. It's fast with the 2.6 series kernel and it's a pleasure to use it. The download via Bittorrent went smoothly and I continued to share it for a couple of weeks. (I'll get it back up soon once I get something here fixed :-) ).

Re: [newbie] permissions..

2004-03-22 Thread Stephanus Fengler
Well, I do not know the answer... but generally spoken: root has the permission to the whole system. okay, a guess... what probably happend is that you have run your system in paranoid mode and executing binary files without ownership of root is forbidden. however, let me say one thing... the pri

[newbie] permissions..

2004-03-22 Thread Ville Vartiainen
hi. a had thinking and struggling , how i can have permissions to my whole system ? I am root and only user to this system and i cant understand , how i can have permissions to whole system: for example , i cant launch a launcher from panel... it says: -

[newbie] permissions to system

2004-03-22 Thread Ville Vartiainen
hi. a had thinking and struggling , how i can have permissions to my whole system ? I am root and only user to this system and i cant understand , how i can have permissions to whole system: for example , i cant launch a launcher from panel... it says: -

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread Maureen
Marc wrote: On Saturday 20 March 2004 05:27 pm, bascule wrote: it would be interesting to know the results of putting the gateway hard drive in a 'normal' machine and putting a 'normal' hard drive in the gateway machine bascule Been there done that. I had to put the Gateway HDD in a dif

[newbie] cannot login with mdkdm

2004-03-22 Thread fengler
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 10 community edition. Now I got the following problem: I installed with mode Paranoid so root should be generally unable to login XSession or console. However, on console F1-F6 this works and is fine. But when I try to login at mdkkdm as a normal user, screen turn

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:03 pm, many eyes viewed Bryan Phinney's words:- > On Tuesday 23 March 2004 04:06 am, Charlie wrote: > > Not being an ironmonger, I was always under the impression that if you > > had one say 5400rpm hardrive then the 7500rpm or whatever only ran at the > > slower speed as wel

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:37 pm, many eyes viewed David Bachechi's words:- > No not at all...not even if they are on the same channelit would > slow it down but, not tremendously. they physically cant slow down just > because of the other drive. > > Thats my 2 cents. > > Charlie wrote: > > On Mon

Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users

2004-03-22 Thread Chris
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user

[newbie] sound comes only though left channel

2004-03-22 Thread John Drouhard
I recently upgraded to Mandrake 10.0 community. Everything works pretty good (I don't really see the point in upgrading though, at least not yet). Anyway, sound only comes through the left speaker no matter what I try. Any ideas? John -- Mon Mar 22 20:40:00 CST 2004 -

Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users

2004-03-22 Thread Chris
On Monday 22 March 2004 02:41 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I > > start a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the > > konsole, it removes the additional user

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Resnick
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Monday 22 March 2004 06:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Now a second question Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Yeah sure. You're new around here, aren't you? -- cmg Subscribed a couple months ago. So, yea I guess. ---

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 22 March 2004 03:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > Maryam wrote: > >Never tried it myself but these look promising > >http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ > >http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html > >http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipode > > > >On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 10:17, Marc Resnick

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Monday 22 March 2004 06:48 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: > Now a second question > > Can anyone lend me some money for an iPod? Yeah sure. You're new around here, aren't you? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ___

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:19, Anne Wilson wrote: > I've done it both ways and been OK, but I've read that some people > have not been so lucky, so create the partition in windows. Create > the linux partitions with diskdrake. > > Remember that if you start an install you can 'dummy run' - you

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-22 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 19:30:29 + John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Gordon wrote: > > > > > > >Yes its definetly in a fixed interval but is a longer time than 15 > >minutes, more like an hour but I'm not sure exactly. I have turned > >off power control in kde both as user and

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Carl J. Bauman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the

Re: [newbie] Insitu upgrade from 9.2 to 10

2004-03-22 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 22 March 2004 04:15 am, Oliver Marshall wrote: > Has anyone done an upgrade from 9.2 to 10 ? I have a box here that I use > as a desktop machine (so OpenOffice, Firefox etc) as well as a test > server to tinker with (irc, ssh, samba etc). I want to upgrade it to 10 > from 9.2, but im worr

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Resnick
Maryam wrote: Never tried it myself but these look promising http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/ http://neuron.com/~jason/ipod.html http://www.blinkenlights.ch/cgi-bin/fm.pl?get=ipode On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 10:17, Marc Resnick wrote: Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:51 pm, many eyes viewed Tavazzani Paolo's words:- > I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. > The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp > partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP > with Partition Magic. Not bei

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 13:44, robin wrote: > There's a choice of two for VIA, and neither of them worked. But as I > posted recently, I got sound working somehow (I think it was when I was > fiddling with /etc/modprobe.conf). > > Sir Robin Well, as we all know, you're a resourceful kinda guy ma

Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Kunath
> Are > the XP utilities to fix MBR OK? > Yes, fixboot and fixmbr will do the trick, used from the recovery console, and restore the MBR. After a Linux reinstall, just allow lilo to reinstall iteslf into the MBR as usual. I don't think you really have a problem with your file system though. I

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 00:51, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > Hi all, > I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. > The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, > on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. > > I've installed

Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users

2004-03-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 23:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > Chris and I talked a little about this. On my 9.1 system, every time I start > a new konsole it creates a new user, however, when I "exit" the konsole, it > removes the additional user. It is not doing that on his system, it is > leaving the

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 20:02, Chuck Mattsen wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > > If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for > > data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. > > You should

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread robin
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose everything under ho

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-22 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 22 March 2004 09:57 am, Lanman wrote: > On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for > them, but you may be right! So might you > > Lanman > > *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** > > On 3/22/2004 at 9:53 AM rikona wrote: > >Hello Lanman, > > > >Sunday, March 21, 2004,

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 20:55, anton wrote: > may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful > and unique nature! > Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... > ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is > extinct in Aussie! And we graciously

Re: [newbie] Printer Problem

2004-03-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 16:22, Matthew Harrison wrote: > Matthew Harrison wrote: > > Hi all, > > On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go > > through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to > > configure the pr

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: > If you are dual booting you really need a fat32 partition for data, so > that it can safely be read and written to by both OSs. You should > also have a separate partition for /home, as you do not want to lose > everything under home if things g

Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Rick Kunath
Partition Magic (and the Windows partitioning tool) expect partitions to begin and end on cylinder boundaries. Both make sure this is the way the disks are physically partitioned. Linux has no such limitation, and this is probably the reason for the PM error. Windows partitions will run just fi

Re: [newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 13:51, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > > The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from > XP, PM shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a > damaged one. Whatever you do, when it offers to fix it for

Re: [newbie] Still no sound

2004-03-22 Thread robin
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 14:38, robin wrote: ...and it's safe to assume that you've tried other drivers - like forcing ALSA? How would I do that? Sir Robin Is there not a means by which - such as in 9.1 - to change the driver in MCC/Hardware to utilise a different driver for s

Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: > If you really must use a Windows tool for partitions, you might consider > getting Paragon Partition Manager. It is a superior tool, IMHO, and will > happily copy, format, move, extend all Linux partitions that I have ever run > into including

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:53:50PM +, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I > need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. > Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole f

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:33 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: >Well, there's more goin on than I can contemplate then Bryan. > You certainly should not have any problem with that hardware of > yours. I'm basing my opinions (ok, bias ;) on my experience that > the only time during the 10.0 development

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-22 Thread David Bachechi
I heard microsoft invested a lot of money into SCO. Supposedly not for the purpose of going after linux users thoughyeah right.. Lanman wrote: On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for them, but you may be right! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/22

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-22 Thread Lanman
On face value, you'd almost think that he already works for them, but you may be right! Lanman *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 3/22/2004 at 9:53 AM rikona wrote: >Hello Lanman, > >Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: > >L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-22 Thread rikona
Hello Lanman, Sunday, March 21, 2004, 3:20:12 PM, you wrote: L> Gee Darl, Good thing you stopped marketing Caldera Linux then isn't L> it! But, wait just a minute? Isn't it true that Caldera earned L> enough money to BUY SCO, using that big ole nasty Open-Source L> software? What a friggin' hyp

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:56 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and > > what controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). > > Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE > co

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Lijour
Here is the complete scenario: urpmi libxslt-proc [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmlTest]$ xsltproc trans.xsl test.xml [EMAIL PROTECTED] xmlTest]$ It should work regardless of the position of the fax element (or rename it as necessary). > Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google til

[newbie] Re: Mandrake 7.0 Error

2004-03-22 Thread Björn Lundin
Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: >> Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk >> or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kernel file" ? thanks >> > Well, there is probably about 20 reasons, including your lilo.conf entrie

Re: [newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Marc Lijour
> Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till > tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax > number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, > but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I > can't

Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 16:30, Paul wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > > > weeke

Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 22 March 2004 10:48 am, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I know that the commercial packages are not available without paid > membership with Mandrake but kernel documentation and freeswan and > tripwire are certainly no commercial (well at least the gpl'd > tripwire).  What is this fourth C

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-22 Thread dvoltin
When is the Official 10.0 Release? > On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and what > > controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). > > Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE controller for >

Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 18:10, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There i

Re: [newbie] Printer Problem

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
Matthew Harrison wrote: Hi all, On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to configure the printer, it comes back and tells me that it Failed to Configure the printer. I am at a loss, because I have had this

Re: [newbie] Mouse problems

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 06:48:30 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I plugged the offender back in to the box it > went crazy on and, sure enough, it was unusable. > > Go figure. > > Lee Hmmm.. It could well be my rodent then. I bought it from our local Sunday market, for the

Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 11:01, Paul wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I > > like about Mandrake but have found some things

Re: [newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread Paul
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 17:48, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long > weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I > like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I > downloaded the three iso image

Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery

2004-03-22 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 09:55, JoeHill wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:43:16 +0700 > Fajar Priyanto disseminated the following: > > > > Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and > > > processing: > > > > > > http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html > >

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-22 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 22:16:34 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this happening in a fix interval, say when you leave your box > untouched for about 15 minutes, etc? Or randomly? > Have you checked in Configuration>KDE>Power Control? > - -- Yes its definetly in a fixed interva

Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files

2004-03-22 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:11 pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote: >>> whack > My apologies if this has already been asked. I did not see a way to > search the archives late than 2003-11. How does one search the most > current postings to this mail list? > > Thanks, all - John John: This source ar

[newbie] Are the iso's limited?

2004-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
Pardon me if I am sounding a bit paranoid but it has been a very long weekend testing various alternatives to RedHat. There is a lot that I like about Mandrake but have found some things infuriating. I downloaded the three iso images and did not register. I wanted to see if our organization want

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:38 pm, Dan Gordon wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:53:46 +0700 > > Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Uumm... how about in BIOS? > > - -- > > Have checked in BIOS, i should mention that this is 9.2. > For the life o

[newbie] Printer Problem

2004-03-22 Thread Matthew Harrison
Hi all, On my 9.2 box, I am trying to print to a network printer. I go through the MCC and try and set up the printer. When it tries to configure the printer, it comes back and tells me that it Failed to Configure the printer. I am at a loss, because I have had this printer set up before on

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:43 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > OK, then you probly need to look at the motherboard and what > controller it's usin to run the CD drive(s). Soyo KT400 Dragon UP. VIA chipset and I am using onboard IDE controller for the DVD Burner, Primary Controller, Master/Single

Re: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 22 March 2004 08:54 am, Tavazzani Paolo wrote: > The main problem I have is that if I launch Partition Magic from XP, PM > shwos for disk 2 with a single partition and says it is a damaged one. I > suspect some partition overlap but I'm not sure on how to move The problem is with Pa

[newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it

[newbie] xml and grep

2004-03-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Help, I have my web limited by my company now, so I can't google till tomorrow. I need help with parsing an xml file. I need to cut out a fax number from the file. Easy enough I though just grep and cut the line, but the whole file is one line. I know this is a simple command but I can't work it

Re: [newbie] Re: Bounce when mailing to newbie list?

2004-03-22 Thread magnet
just my quick test. I've not been getting any mail from here for a few weeks and it's only just started to arrive this last couple of days. On Sunday 21 Mar 2004 9:06 pm, Björn Lundin wrote: > Philip Cronje wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:05:59 +0100, Björn Lundin > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
I did do an update immediately... But it was a "selective" update. I didn't do things like Apache. Tonight I may well do the whole lot just to be on the safe side. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subj

RE: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect

2004-03-22 Thread andrew . lundy
If you have problems try it this way... - Firmware (mgmt.o) in /usr/share/speedtouch/ (ALREADY DONE) - Run through dragconnect wizard and put all your ISP details in (PROBABLY ALREADY DONE) - Goto command line and type: /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start - ('/usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouc

RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Paolo, PM reports this error when it is not really an error. You will always get it. (Have a look in the archives as there was a big discussion on this a while back). If you want to re-install Linux just put CD 1 in the drive and start again. My personal opinion is to not use PM at all. You can

Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery

2004-03-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 07:55 pm, JoeHill wrote: > One note, there is a link on the page, to the left, 'printer view'. Save > the printer-friendly page, then: > > htmldoc --webpage -f .pdf .html > > ...and you have yourself an always-ready PDF version,

RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Tavazzani Paolo
Hi Tony, thanks for the suggestion. I must admit that, having installed the Linux partition just yesterday I could loose it and re-install without too many troubles. What I'm worried about is that, if PM is right, something crazy like a partition overlapping has happened and I could end up, when

RE: [newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Paolo, Ignore the error message from PM, if you try and fix it you can hose your Linux installation (I did a long time ago). Tony. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tavazzani Paolo Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 1:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Su

[newbie] After installing 10.0 Partition Magic from XP says that the partition di damaged

2004-03-22 Thread Tavazzani Paolo
Hi all, Sorry if I re-post, but the original message had no subject :-( I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installe

Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files

2004-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:14, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 22 Mar 2004 11:23, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > > > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after

[newbie]

2004-03-22 Thread Tavazzani Paolo
Hi all, I've just installed Mandrake 10.0 on my PC. The system has two disks, on disk 1 I just left the original Windows Xp partition, on disk 2 (bigger and faster) I have freed some 11gb from XP with Partition Magic. I've installed Mandrake 10.0 in expert mode, I got it to install in the free sp

Re: [newbie] mdk 10.0 community wont boot

2004-03-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 21 March 2004 11:11 am, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:53 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: > > Like the 9.2 LG cdrom deal, It's not Mandrake that's > > broken, it's some CD drives that aren't quite right. Not > > checking the md5sum of the iso, and then also from the burne

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-22 Thread Dan Gordon
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 14:53:46 +0700 Fajar Priyanto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uumm... how about in BIOS? > - -- Have checked in BIOS, i should mention that this is 9.2. For the life of me I can not find out where the monitor is being put on standby. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Mon Mar 22 08:35:3

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error

2004-03-22 Thread frankieh
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kern

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread franki
anton wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: may they all die, like all furry aussie animals destroying NZs beautiful and unique nature! Anton the kiwi who won't be for much longer... ps. Yes, we do have them, what's more, we have/had a species that is extinct in Aussie! And we graciously gave them to you

Re: [newbie] Opening terminal adds users

2004-03-22 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 22 March 2004 12:39 am, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > Chris - every time you open a term - or whatever - you start another > process that has your name on it - so, if you open twenty terms, you'll > find twenty references to YOU...does that make sense? Chris and I talked a little about this. O

Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files

2004-03-22 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 04:52, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after > > experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give > > Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impr

[newbie] Mouse problems

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
Hi All, I have a problem Every now and then, my mouse pointer will go totally mental, flying round the screen, opening up applications, minimizing windows, and generally doing it's own thing. Is this a problem with Linux or a hardware issue? I have a windows partition, and not once ha

[newbie] Insitu upgrade from 9.2 to 10

2004-03-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Has anyone done an upgrade from 9.2 to 10 ? I have a box here that I use as a desktop machine (so OpenOffice, Firefox etc) as well as a test server to tinker with (irc, ssh, samba etc). I want to upgrade it to 10 from 9.2, but im worried it will bugger it totally, and that some of the stuff wont wo

RE: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
Well, hey... If I can get KDE 3.2 working with sound on Mandrake 9.2 then I will do that instead... Could anyone advise me? Does XMMS, Mplayer and other sound apps play well with MDK9.2 and KDE 3.2? -Original Message- From: JRH [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:1

[newbie] Error when issuing commands from console

2004-03-22 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, I have an odd error that has started happening over the weekend. When I issue certain commands, URPMI being one of them, I get the following output. /usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so: unexpected reloc type 0x58 I

Re: [newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread JRH
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 09:36, Sweeney, Stephen wrote: Hear Hear Stephen! I'm having exactly the same problem! amongst others.. at the moment, 9.2 looks an increasingly better option :-) JRH > (sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that I've > explained everything).

[newbie] M10's CD1

2004-03-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Is there any likelyhood of a fix for M10's CD1 boot problem being available anytime soon. I have to begin again on CD1 as my md5sums failed, so would be intersted in getting a repaired CD1 as the next download instead of the existing one, which will not be for a few days . So if there is any possib

[newbie] MDk10CE, KDE 3.2 and no sound

2004-03-22 Thread Sweeney, Stephen
(sorry if this comes out a bit long, but I'd like to make sure that I've explained everything). On the weekend I installed Mandrake 10 (install, not update). Install went fine. I then booted into KDE 3.2. It hung leaving the Mandrake wallpaper in the background. I tried again, this time I got a wa

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after the *wrong* people.

2004-03-22 Thread frankieh
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 08:57, JoeHill wrote: Quote: "SCO sent letters raising the prospect of legal action for using Linux to two Department of Energy facilities, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)."

Re: [newbie] Successful boot yet failure to find CD-ROM files

2004-03-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 22 Mar 2004 04:11, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > I needed to rebuild one of our test security gateways and after > experimenting with RedHat, Debian and Slackware, I wanted to give > Mandrake 10.0 a try. I was initially very impressed but I am having a > devil of a time just installing.

Re: [newbie] Gateway BURN IN HELL!! RANT Kind of long

2004-03-22 Thread anton
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 22:27:26 -0800 Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sunday 21 March 2004 09:42 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 14:02, Aron Smith wrote: Thanks for jumping on this before I had a conniption. that anything like a Walalaby? WALLABY. Great Cea

Re: [newbie] iPOD with Mandrake?

2004-03-22 Thread Stephen Reynolds
On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:47 am, Marc Resnick wrote: > Is it possible to use an iPOD with Mandrake? I'm not quite sure of how > iPODs work. Would it be recognized just as a removable device? Or does > anyone know of any open source apps equivalent to the itunes software? An iPod works fine as an USB

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 11:13 am, Dan Gordon wrote: > All of a sudden my monitor goes in to sleep or suspended mode, I have > turned this off in kde, gnome, xscreensaver, the bios, looked in mcc and > at a loss, turned off apm. Is there any where else

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 Error

2004-03-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:57 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 21 March 2004 08:32 pm, Tomy Alarie wrote: > > Hi, i just want to know on mandrake 7, why when i try to make a boot disk > > or install lilo it tells me : "couldn't find kernel file" ? tha

Re: [newbie] Guide to Linux File Command Mastery

2004-03-22 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 22 March 2004 08:06 am, JoeHill wrote: > Looks like a pretty good intro to command line file manipulation and > processing: > > http://otn.oracle.com/pub/articles/calish_file_commands.html > > ...and from Oracle, no less :-) Thanks Joe. It's