Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread anton
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the Starter Guide, but it is still like greek to me. Be

Re: [newbie] Mozilla FTP oddities

2004-03-27 Thread anton
Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi I am setting up an FTP page for some of my friends to use. Only thing is it works fine for Internet Explorer but in Mozilla when you click the link you just get a new page open with what looks like raw code. I do come across this occasionally with some ftp sites. You

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:19, anton wrote: What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but you can also buy

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/26/2004 10:12 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: As I remarked earlier, bascule, this is exactly the situation I had with my new camera and kernel 2.4.19. When 2.4.21 came along the camera was fully recognised, an sd.. device was created and mounted as /mnt/removable. That's why I suggested that

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:19, anton wrote: I'll second the recommendation for Running Linux, which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a little heavy or technical for a casual user, but on the whole it does a pretty

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread anton
Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:19, anton wrote: What is wrong here people? Oh, that's right. WTF is rute says the complete newbie!?! The Rute users guide is a project/book aiming at a fairly good intro to whizz of Linux: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html its free but

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:31, Paul wrote: On 03/26/2004 10:12 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: As I remarked earlier, bascule, this is exactly the situation I had with my new camera and kernel 2.4.19. When 2.4.21 came along the camera was fully

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:37, anton wrote: Again, wtf is urpmi, See http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UsingUrpmi and isn't it for installing apps? It's for installing packages - and documentation comes in packages. What do you mean

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 02:37, anton wrote: Again, wtf is urpmi, and isn't it for installing apps? What do you mean you install documentation? Why do you need to install documentation? For that matter, wtf is wtf (I know, but as long as we're being argumentative ... :-) -- Chuck Mattsen /

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 09:41 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Where did you download from, Paul? I looked at Software Installer (Mandrake Control Center) on this system (9.1). It offered 2.4.21.0.28mdk-1-1mdk and didn't report any dependency issues. I Googled around a bit (mandrake kernel rpm) and found this

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 09:45 AM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: For that matter, wtf is wtf (I know, but as long as we're being argumentative ... :-) Can't be a standard command: [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ man wtf No manual entry for wtf [EMAIL PROTECTED] paul]$ wtf --help bash: wtf: command not found ;-) Paul --

[newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the first attempt to run that app from the KDE menu will result

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 10:01 AM, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Do others experience this regularly/is this common? Again, just a minor annoyance and always just a solitary, nonrepeatable crash, but one of those Hmmm... things, nonetheless. Very strange. I have never had this happen in all my Linux life (which

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:51, Paul wrote: On 03/27/2004 09:41 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Where did you download from, Paul? I looked at Software Installer (Mandrake Control Center) on this system (9.1). It offered 2.4.21.0.28mdk-1-1mdk and didn't

[newbie] LG CD-rom killer problem

2004-03-27 Thread Märt Suga
Is the LG cd-rom killing problem fixed in MandrakeMove 9.2 or should I not use it in LG cd rom readers? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 10:17 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1033535/com/kernel-2.4. 22.28mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm.html It could be OK, but I'm a bit worried about that 'built for 9.x' statement. The one I found is said to come from Mandrake Update, so if you have your

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:34:54 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:19, anton wrote: I'll second the recommendation for Running Linux, which I'm currently working my way through. At times it gets a

Re: [newbie] Advanced Sound Program?

2004-03-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 26 March 2004 07:54 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - Original Message - From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 9:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Advanced Sound Program? On Friday 26 March 2004 06:39 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Is there

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread bascule
fair enough paul, but... it does appear that your system does not have a properly setup update source for urpmi, since 9.1 has 2.4.21-28 and 9.2 has 2.4.22-28 released, this should be a concern since it means that security updates may not be found by urpmi, i hate to sound like your grandma :)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 26 March 2004 08:46 pm, Glenn wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 20:47, William Hatfield wrote: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. Bill Hatfield www.badhatproductions.com O'Reilly's Running Linux

[newbie] need bootloader each time I start-up - how to stop?

2004-03-27 Thread Rory
Summary: My question now is HOW do I fix things so I don't need the bootloader each time I start-up?   Details: I just installed Mandrake 10.0 and am very impressed with KDE 3.2.   However, the post-install was a nightmare. This board helped me navigate a number of headaches: For example,

Re: [newbie] Belkin USB SDcard reader? Gphoto?

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 09:31, Paul wrote: When I look at MandrakeUpdate, it does not show me any new kernels to be installed. Sorry - I did not make myself clear. You would not find it on MU, I think, because doing it from there would update

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Margot
Glenn wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 20:47, William Hatfield wrote: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. Bill Hatfield www.badhatproductions.com O'Reilly's Running Linux helped me, and still remains a good reference.

[newbie] Popfile service won't start

2004-03-27 Thread Josenildo Marques
Hi. I followed the instructions on how to have Popfile start as a service, but it is not working. I get the error: Error while 'Fetching Mail': Could not connect to POP server 127.0.0.1 (port 110): Connection refused I made sure that Popfile and the initscript are both executable. [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 02:19, anton wrote: Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 00:52, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: I haven't quite got the hang of how to install things on Mandrake. I downloaded the

Re: [newbie] Popfile service won't start

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 11:17, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hi. I followed the instructions on how to have Popfile start as a service, but it is not working. I get the error: Error while 'Fetching Mail': Could not connect to POP server 127.0.0.1

[newbie] Re: Quarantined Message Notification

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01, you wrote: You have the following quarantined message(s): Queue:Harass Language Messages: 1 Queue:Spam Messages: 399 Queue:Virus Messages: 2 Queue:Blocked Files Messages: 1 Please review

Re: [newbie] Popfile service won't start

2004-03-27 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:09, Anne Wilson wrote: When you say you followed instructions, Josenildo, were they the ones at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile? Mark's instructions are much simpler and clearer than the ones in the documentation, and what's more they work without

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op zaterdag 27 maart 2004 11:50, schreef Margot: Can someone recommend a good book on Mandrake? This stuff is confusing to me but I really like the software. and dont forget to start your own book :-) write some weird commands in a textfile, makes

[newbie] New kernel (was: USB SDcard reader)

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 11:44 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry - I did not make myself clear. You would not find it on MU, I think, because doing it from there would update the kernel rather than installing a parallel one. It's too dangerous. I found it in the normal Software Installer, which said that

Re: [newbie] New kernel (was: USB SDcard reader)

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 12:53, Paul wrote: On 03/27/2004 11:44 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: Sorry - I did not make myself clear. You would not find it on MU, I think, because doing it from there would update the kernel rather than installing a

RE: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
I'am having the same problem with Mandrake Move can't change the screen resolution. -Original Message- From: Paul Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen Dear All Some

Re: [newbie] New kernel

2004-03-27 Thread Paul
On 03/27/2004 01:55 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Yes. You will have a longer lilo, from which you will be able to boot into either one. Okay. I got the new kernel installed and running. Then I plugged in the camera. /var/log/messages keeps telling me the same, no drivers or modules for the new

[newbie] Re: failure notice

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 06:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. This is the qmail-send program at cliff.kota.net. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sorry, no

Re: [newbie] New kernel

2004-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 March 2004 13:09, Paul wrote: On 03/27/2004 01:55 PM, Anne Wilson wrote: Yes. You will have a longer lilo, from which you will be able to boot into either one. Okay. I got the new kernel installed and running. Then I plugged in

Re: [newbie] LG CD-rom killer problem

2004-03-27 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 27 March 2004 04:27 am, Märt Suga wrote: Is the LG cd-rom killing problem fixed in MandrakeMove 9.2 or should I not use it in LG cd rom readers? Hopefully you applied the firmware patch that LG put out for its faulty CD-ROMS. If you have done so, and if I were you, I would apply

[newbie] Updates to MDK 10 Community

2004-03-27 Thread Trey Sizemore
I've got Mandrake 10 Community installed on my box and want to check for upgrades. Using the Easy URPMI site for Cooker sources, I get a lot of erroneous results (such as packages tagged installed but outdated). Is there a better source to use for updates to the Community Release? Thanks, --

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and gimp-2 via urpmi, but also most others I can recall), the

Re: [newbie] Okay, still on the subject of e-mail signatures... (random taglines)

2004-03-27 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 05:12:01AM +1100, Stephen Kuhn wrote: BTW, Todd, where the hell YOU been? Oh, I've been around, but I'm still running 9.2, and you know how it is when a new release comes out. That and my job sucks so I've been looking for a new one, and had to get ready for a

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 27 March 2004 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and

Re: [newbie] Popfile service won't start

2004-03-27 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:09, Anne Wilson wrote: When you say you followed instructions, Josenildo, were they the ones at http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/PopFile? Mark's instructions are much simpler and clearer than the ones in the documentation, and what's more they work without

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-27 Thread julie
On Friday 26 March 2004 23:07, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I'd also recommend -- being somewhat of a miser myself, and on a very limited income at the moment -- checking out the used book sources (such as Amazon, or perhaps http://www.bookfinder.com). Don't overlook public libraries. I live in a

Re: [newbie] Windows bigger than the screen

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 March 2004 06:57 am, Beavers, Randy W. wrote: I'am having the same problem with Mandrake Move can't change the screen resolution. I tested in MMove's development, and filed a ML bug report on just this issue. I don't believe it ever got fixed. I got the impression

[newbie] Test - is anyone getting this?

2004-03-27 Thread John Smith
I'm not sure if my posts are going through to the list. Can someone reply if it is actually getting through? -john smith Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Updates to MDK 10 Community

2004-03-27 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:52 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: I've got Mandrake 10 Community installed on my box and want to check for upgrades. Using the Easy URPMI site for Cooker sources, I get a lot of erroneous results (such as packages tagged installed but outdated). Is there a better

Re: [newbie] Test - is anyone getting this?

2004-03-27 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 27 March 2004 08:22 am, John Smith wrote: I'm not sure if my posts are going through to the list. Can someone reply if it is actually getting through? No the're not getting through ;-) -john smith Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] need bootloader each time I start-up - how to stop?

2004-03-27 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 27, 2004 02:58 am, Rory wrote: Summary: My question now is HOW do I fix things so I don't need the bootloader each time I start-up? Well, that depends on whether you ever want to run Windows again or not. Or whether you ever plan to

[newbie] Problem developing

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
I am running 9.2. Using konqueror (root) transfering mp3 files from CD to /music. Everyting was going well when the file transfer protocol was lost, I used the logout icon to exit to the login screen (KDM). The system attempted to start KDM several times but it did not start so I was

Re: [newbie] Hmmm ... app crash after most installs?

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:03, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 27 March 2004 03:01 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: Just a minor annoyance, but wondering if it's usual or something else is amiss. (Running MDK as below in sig.) I've noted that after installing most apps (most recently rute and

[newbie] SATA Promise 378 /

2004-03-27 Thread Alan Rolfe
I am running on a ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe board with a hard disk on primary slave, a dvd and CDRW on Secondary master and slave, two more SATA drives on ICH5R and all is well. Except the two drives on the promise PATA controller. Mandrake sees the controller but doesn't detect the drives.

[newbie] digital camera / 2.4 kernel

2004-03-27 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, A thread in the archives suggests that my Fuji camera is not fully supported in the 2.6 kernel. It also suggests that the 2.4 kernel supplied with LM10 does a better job. (LM9.1 supported it flawlessly) Is there absolutely no way to have the camera on 2.6? If not, what is the easiest way

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chris
On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: #bin bash echo -e Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen, MN \\n echo -e Registered Linux User #346519 \\n echo

Re: [newbie] Gnome Wallpaper

2004-03-27 Thread song
Me too. My Konqueror browser stalled...I had to use xkill. On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 23:15, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I'm using MDK 10, but can't find/google any gnome specific wallpaper, anybody have some links to gnome wallpaper. Steve On the Gnome site (http://www.gnome.org) there are links to

Re: [newbie] Test - is anyone getting this?

2004-03-27 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 02:22 am, many eyes viewed John Smith's words:- I'm not sure if my posts are going through to the list. Can someone reply if it is actually getting through? -john smith This is through. -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 + Even a fool knows that he cannot

[newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-27 Thread Steve Kaurfman
I have poked around on Google and the forums and don't seem to find anyway to make this scanner work. I looked at XSANE and it was not listed as supported. Anyone have any ideas on how to get it to work. I'm running 9.2 BTW. Thanks Steve

[newbie] slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-27 Thread Russell Butler
Hello all Since a recent reinstall of ML9.1, there is a 60 second delay before the modem responds to the initial opening of the dialer. I have tried to adjust the sensible things in the modem setup, and after making adjustments it seems to work immediately, but then next time I try to log on I

[newbie] Re: dialup networking problem

2004-03-27 Thread Russell Butler
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 12:46, Russell Butler wrote: Dear all, Sorry if this is in the archives, but I could not find anything immediately relevant. Reinstall of Mandrake 9.1, have set up shorewall(2.0) firewall and have local network/samba/cups running (sigh). Dialup

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 16:47, Chris wrote: If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? If so, why not use a little perl script called makesig.pl If you want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. I'll Google it and take a look, thanks. I managed to

[newbie] test

2004-03-27 Thread Hoyt Bailey
-- Regards; Hoyt Ignore the past and you will fail! Ignore the future and you have already failed! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 21 Mar 2004 23:13:58 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 This started a few months ago with my 6 yr old Nokia 447W monitor. I could not

Re: [newbie] Monitor in sleep mode.

2004-03-27 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:04:48 -0500 Dan Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hehehe you know it really does not matter, it just never did this before. I have been running 9.2 since it came out and always woke up to Now that you mention it, 10.0 here used to come up with the Tux saver, but now

Re: [newbie] slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-27 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 09:59 pm, many eyes viewed Russell Butler's words:- Hello all Since a recent reinstall of ML9.1, there is a 60 second delay before the modem responds to the initial opening of the dialer. I have tried to adjust the sensible things in the modem setup, and after making

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread skidley
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:47:40PM -0600, Chris wrote: On Friday 26 March 2004 10:24 am, Chuck Mattsen wrote: On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:08, bascule wrote: try using echo -e and using \\n to represent a newline, thus: #bin bash echo -e Chuck Mattsen ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Mahnomen,

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Chris
On Saturday 27 March 2004 10:51 pm, skidley wrote: If I read the thread correctly you want to have a sig similiar to mine? If so, why not use a little perl script called makesig.pl If you want it I'll send it over or just google/linux for it. I am interested in makesig.pl so I grabbed

Re: Signature Scripts (WAS: Re: [newbie] Steve's second question of the day. Time machine has been up)

2004-03-27 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
What I want to know is can you add something to the code of your sig.txt at I guess footerfile= that will effectively do the same as this: #bin bash echo `cat /etc/mandrake-release` kernel `uname -r` -- John Willby Oxon GLASS rep Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912