[newbie] Re: slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-28 Thread Russell Butler
Charlie wrote: 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

[newbie] Fwd: How to downdate 10.0?

2004-03-28 Thread Tango Echo
Hey all. Sorry if this is a repost but I sent this message to the list and never saw it appear... Were there any replies? --- Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 06:55:45 -0800 (PST) From: Tango Echo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to downdate 10.0? To: newb-mdk [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates

2004-03-28 Thread Beavers, Randy W.
Thanks John ! -Original Message- From: John A. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 8:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Monitor Resolution Refresh Rates you probably won't be able to fix the problem with Mandrake Move, if you're

[newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at: https://www.mandrakeonline.net/index.php couple of questions? I'm assuming this will allow automatic on-line updates for Mandrake? I only ask this as I assumed that such a

[newbie] Fonts annoyance

2004-03-28 Thread Adolfo Bello
I don't know if this is the right list to post this problem. I am using KDE under Mandrake 10, kernel 2.6.3. A few days ago my laptop was shutdown improperly (a power lost). After that, every time X is started the fonts in Evolution, Mozilla and some other applications are pretty small, let's

[newbie] Route Default

2004-03-28 Thread Budhi Astiyadi
Hi, How can I set default route in my machine to be modem connection? I am confused to read man page. TIA. -- ()-() Makacih, | Even experienced users ( 'o' ) Budhi mbUdh Astiyadi| read man pages everyday, (,)~(,) Pesanggrahan - Indonesia | so beginner users

Re: [newbie] Route Default

2004-03-28 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:17:48 +0700, Budhi Astiyadi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How can I set default route in my machine to be modem connection? I am confused to read man page. TIA. I don't know how you'd do this with KPPP or any of those graphical PPP frontends, but the real way to do it

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
[un-hijacking the thread and starting anew here...] On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:00, Rory wrote: Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at: https://www.mandrakeonline.net/index.php couple of questions? I'm

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

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Chuck Mattsen wrote: Resurrecting an old thread here ... On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 14:33, Charlie Mahan wrote: Here's a slightly different way to get the "running Mandrake..." blah blah: #bin bash echo "Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org" echo `cat

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-28 Thread Margot
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:03 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1m dk.i586.rpm http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1m dk.nosrc.rpm Well, some success... I managed to download and install the new kernel

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
Hmm... interesting... I keep getting error. At least it's working for someone: Some package requested cannot be installed: mdkonline-1.0-0.6mdk.noarch (due to unsatisfied perl(Gtk2::TrayIcon)) The file says owner: rory group: rory Could this be a privilege/access issue I'm having? I've been

[newbie] The value of Multimedia and TMB kernels

2004-03-28 Thread Lanman
Hey Group; Can someone explain what use these extra kernels are? I've only found minimal info about these, and nothing that specifically states what makes them better than the original kernels. I see terms like preemptive patching and low-latency mentioned often, but no actual explanations

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:44:12 -0500, Rory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been also trying to install superkaramba and get stopped at ./configure with the following error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH You sure you have gcc installed? pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Mar 2004 13:52, Chuck Mattsen wrote: [un-hijacking the thread and starting anew here...] On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 05:00, Rory wrote: Hi folks, I hope this question is appropriate for this list. I'm trying to install the Mandrake Online Wizard found at:

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
You sure you have gcc installed? Well, I'll go one better than that - what's gcc?? :) I installed Mandrake 10.0 - 3 discs. So, I assumed it would have installed what I needed but it looks like I'm wrong. Where can I find it? One of the discs? I'm taking a look now but don't see

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
Okay, I'm looking through the development tools right now. I was just going to install the whole package, but a number of them give you a choice of which tool for a sub-group. Any suggestions? I must have missed an option during install, I guess. R. On Sunday 28 March 2004 9:19 am, Rory

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

2004-03-28 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my own via the strfile command have failed, yielding just one big file instead of

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
Okay, I installed the Mandrake recommended development tools first. Didn't do the trick. Then I went back and installed the rest of the package, which didn't have any sub-group options long (save a choice between sendmail and something else), as the first install must of take care of that.

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:14, Derek Jennings wrote: I /think/ this is a feature/service in development and not quite ready for primetime, but I may be wrong. - snip -8 In any case, after installing, uploading my configuration and personal data, the icon sits in the tray saying,

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

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:39, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can still only use others' fortunes, however, as all attempts to compile my own via the strfile command have

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Rory
Okay, I just installed a tonne of stuff from development tools. No luck. Can anyone recommend specific packages I should run to get this thing going? Thanks, R. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Fwd: How to downdate 10.0?

2004-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 28 March 2004 04:54 am, Tango Echo wrote: Unless I am mistaken here, it appears the cooker and 10.0 update tree has forked. You're mistaken. This hasn't occured yet. My conjecture? cooker 10.0 as of last Friday is probly 10.0 Official. I expect it to under go a week or two's

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Paul
On 03/28/2004 05:05 PM, Rory wrote: Okay, I just installed a tonne of stuff from development tools. No luck. Can anyone recommend specific packages I should run to get this thing going? I am still on 9.1 but I checked anyway. The gcc compiler is located in RPMs called gccversion number,

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Paul
On 03/28/2004 05:05 PM, Rory wrote: Okay, I just installed a tonne of stuff from development tools. No luck. Can anyone recommend specific packages I should run to get this thing going? Additionally, if you cannot locate it that way, you can search by group - development - c and/or c++ --

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Philip Cronje
Well, I'll go one better than that - what's gcc?? :) That's the GNU C compiler. You need it when you're building packages from source (like you're doing with Superkaramba). If you need some of those tools to install an RPM, shouldn't it be a required part of the install? But remember, in

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-28 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 28 March 2004 07:28 am, Margot wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:03 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1 m dk.i586.rpm http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1 m dk.nosrc.rpm Well, some

[newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread Dave Steiner
I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. Anyone know? TIA = David Steiner www.DavidLSteiner.com Proud Linux User #262493 =

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 28 Mar 2004 15:19, Rory wrote: You sure you have gcc installed? Well, I'll go one better than that - what's gcc?? :) I installed Mandrake 10.0 - 3 discs. So, I assumed it would have installed what I needed but it looks like I'm wrong. Where can I find it? One of the discs?

Re: [newbie] Installing updates from Mandrake Online

2004-03-28 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 17:29:42 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] It might be easier if you installed karamba instead of SuperKaramba. Would *you* install something that didn't have the word Super in it's name? ;P pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:27:23 -0500 Dave Steiner disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. urpmi drakwizard -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage:

[newbie] 10.0 update

2004-03-28 Thread Lee Wiggers
Just did two week worth of 10.0 updates without issue. What a pleasant surprise. Anyone need a mirror list? Lee Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

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

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 12:44:52 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: Hint for SCO: do not antagonize people who know how to build NUCLEAR BOMBS. For encores, when is SCO going to sue the Postal Service, the IRS, the CIA, and the Department of Defense / Homeland Security? Linux is

Re: [newbie] Re: slow modem start with kppp

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 08:00 pm, many eyes viewed Russell Butler's words:- Charlie wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:28 pm, many eyes viewed Margot's words:- Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 25 March 2004 02:03 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1m dk.i586.rpm http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/kernel-tmb-2.6.4-1.tmb.3mdk-1-1m dk.nosrc.rpm

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

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:59 am, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:- On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 08:39, Todd Slater wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 06:22:33PM -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote: I managed to get mine working, including the tagline/'fortune' ... I can still only use others' fortunes,

[newbie] SCO Licensee: 'Would I do it again? No,'

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
Quote: Less than a month after becoming the first publicly announced buyer of The SCO Group Inc.'s controversial intellectual property license for Linux, Houston-based Internet service provider Everyones Internet Ltd. is reconsidering the benefits of doing business with the Linux community's No.

[newbie] Free Linux scanner software released

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
Phoenix-based Hamrick Software has released the Standard Edition of its Linux version of VueScan software free for personal and educational use. VueScan supports infrared scanners from manufacturers like Epson, Minolta, Nikon and Canon. VueScan software allows you to automatically find and

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

2004-03-28 Thread Chuck Mattsen
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:19, Charlie wrote: Thanks ... I'll send you a copy of it off list (however, I suspect it's a PEBKAC thing, as I tried to compile a .dat via strfile with just a few taglines, and ended up with the same thing ... one large concatenated tagline). I haven't been

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread John Wilson
On March 28, 2004 09:58 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:42:01 -0700 Charlie Mahan disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that puts the server config page in Mandrake Control Center. Anyone know?

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

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:34 am, many eyes viewed Chuck Mattsen's words:- On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 02:19, Charlie wrote: Thanks ... I'll send you a copy of it off list (however, I suspect it's a PEBKAC thing, as I tried to compile a .dat via strfile with just a few taglines, and ended up with

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:39 am, many eyes viewed John Wilson's words:- On March 28, 2004 09:58 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:42:01 -0700 Charlie Mahan disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a new machine and I can't seem to remember what package it is that

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:50 -0800 John Wilson disseminated the following: Heh, everybody always jumps on the easy ones...in my case 'cuz those are the only ones I usually know the answer to ;-) Okay..but can you explain Stephen Harper? :-) That requires a lobotomy and heavy sedation with

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread Dave Steiner
JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 14:39:50 -0800 John Wilson disseminated the following: Heh, everybody always jumps on the easy ones...in my case 'cuz those are the only ones I usually know the answer to ;-) Okay..but can you explain Stephen Harper? :-)

Re: [newbie] package name?

2004-03-28 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 18:29:18 -0500 Dave Steiner disseminated the following: W! :o My thread has been jacked! ...and by a well-known 'list Nazi' no less :-P -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++ It was a crazed and futile

Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM

2004-03-28 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Charlie wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:39 am, many eyes viewed John Wilson's words:- On March 28, 2004 09:58 am, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:42:01 -0700 Charlie Mahan disseminated the following: I just installed Mdk on a

Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 28, 2004 04:46 pm, Steve Kaurfman wrote: whack I am using thunderbird and this mail from Charlie shows up with a date on 3/29/04 @ 3:48 AM in my inbox. Anybody have an idea why. It is only the 28th here in CT. Easter Standard Time.

[newbie] MDK 10 -- Webmin won't start

2004-03-28 Thread John Wilson
Hi there! There is probably an issue at my end but...here we go anyway. Whenever I try to start Webmin I get this: An error occurred while loading https://localhost:1/: Could not connect to host localhost (port 1) What could this be? And yes, webmin is installed. :-) ttfn John

Re: [newbie] To install Mandrake 10 screwed up my windows xp / Al instalar m10 no m funciona winxp

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On March 28, 2004 12:54 pm, Jalberto mosino wrote: whack i did wat follows: use a floppy disk from FreeDOS? (http://www.freedos.org/) and do a 'fdisk /mbr' and you should be able to boot again I got that from the url u give me i think this

Re: [newbie] SCO Licensee: 'Would I do it again? No,'

2004-03-28 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 28 March 2004 05:28 pm, JoeHill wrote: Quote: Less than a month after becoming the first publicly announced buyer of The SCO Group Inc.'s controversial intellectual property license for Linux, Houston-based Internet service provider Everyones Internet Ltd. is reconsidering the

[newbie] More adventures in MDK 10

2004-03-28 Thread John Wilson
After a few days of playing with this I'm really starting to love it. Speed is definitely not an issue. This old Dell is acting like it's a young pup again. About the only thing it won't do is direct a missile at a car parked under me whose alarm has been singing at me for the last two

[newbie] Unreal Tournament won't start after install

2004-03-28 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY on my Mandrake 9.2 box. The install worked flawlessly (at least, as far as I

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 -- Webmin won't start

2004-03-28 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi, Your message prompted me to install webmin and give it a try. I used mcc to install it. Then I ran 'webmin' in a cli. Then I tried to connect and voila...it worked. Did you run the program before trying to connect? Regards, Bill W. On Monday 29 March 2004 01:38, John Wilson wrote: Hi

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 -- Webmin won't start

2004-03-28 Thread John Wilson
On March 28, 2004 09:24 am, Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, Your message prompted me to install webmin and give it a try. I used mcc to install it. Then I ran 'webmin' in a cli. Then I tried to connect and voila...it worked. Did you run the program before trying to connect? Regards, Bill W.

[newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install

2004-03-28 Thread Marv Boyes
Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY on my Mandrake 9.2 box. The install worked flawlessly (at least, as far as I

Re: [newbie] To install Mandrake 10 screwed up my windows xp / Al instalar m10 no m funciona winxp

2004-03-28 Thread Erylon Hines
On Sunday 28 March 2004 11:54 am, Jalberto mosino wrote: On March 28, 2004 10:21 am, Jalberto mosino wrote: English version / versión en inglés: --- Hi! i had a main partition with windows xp. Then i installed mandrake 10 and now when i go to the

[newbie] Odd syslog messages, could be solution to dhcp problem

2004-03-28 Thread Marc Resnick
Can anyone make heads or tails of this: Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost dhcpcd[23325]: dns option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 192.168.1.1 Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost dhcpcd[23325]: subnetMask option is missing in DHCP server response. Assuming 255.0.0.0 Mar 28 20:29:46 localhost

Re: [newbie] Unreal Tourn. (original, GOTY) won't run after install

2004-03-28 Thread Philip Cronje
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 21:33:32 -0500, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, everyone. I hope someone here is familiar with running the Windows version of Unreal Tournament (Game of the Year edition of the original version) under Linux. I used abfackeln's install scripts to install UT-GOTY

Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD TIME PROBLEM

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:46 am, many eyes viewed Steve Kaurfman's words:- I am using thunderbird and this mail from Charlie shows up with a date on 3/29/04 @ 3:48 AM in my inbox. Anybody have an idea why. It is only the 28th here in CT. Easter Standard Time. Shouldn't it get converted to

Re: [newbie] More adventures in MDK 10

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:56 am, many eyes viewed John Wilson's words:- After a few days of playing with this I'm really starting to love it. Speed is definitely not an issue. This old Dell is acting like it's a young pup again. About the only thing it won't do is direct a missile at a car

[newbie] Maybe this is the problem.............

2004-03-28 Thread Charlie
Those having problems with seeing there posts on the list might discover that it has something to do with these messages that have come through for ages, and yet the email shows up on the list just the same? Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mail Delivery System) To:

[newbie] Sound with ASUS Motherboard P4P800

2004-03-28 Thread yvan_linux
Hello, did anyone succeed to make sound working with the onboard sound on a ASUS Motherboard P4P800. There is a driver on the ASUS CD and on their web site but this driver doesn't seem to work. Cheers Yvan -- +++ NEU bei GMX und erstmalig in Deutschland: TÜV-geprüfter Virenschutz +++ 100%

[newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Yet another wireless question: Is packet loss normal running via wireless? I never see packet loss on my hardwired LAN, but when using my wireless laptop and I ping the other comps I get a small amount of packet loss. Usually in the neighborhood of 10-15 percent or so... Thanks! --