[newbie] how to change window manager in Gnome

2004-03-29 Thread song
Hi all, I'm rushing! Did I smoke too much ? I don't know but I know I've tried everything... I just see in my menu 2 link to play with my Theme and Windows behavior. Neither in the Mandrake Control Center. I see that Nautilus came by default in Mandrake 9.2 . Can someone tell where can I change

Re: [newbie] How to kill printer queu?

2004-03-29 Thread Paul
Cups and Printing nonstop garbage From: Till Kamppeter Subject: Re: [newbie] Cups and Printing nonstop garbage Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 05:27:35 -0800 Do the following: Check whether there are jobs in the queue and kill them: On the command line enter lpstat -o If

Re: [newbie] Wheel Mouse

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Risley
Thanks, I'll try that out. Apologies for the double post. Cheers, Mike Bill Echols wrote: This is how I got mine to work. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/157510http://linuxquestions.org/ questions/history/157510 Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Risley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

[newbie] WheelMouse

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Risley
Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with "Dell" on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on th

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 14:53, Derek Jennings wrote: > On Monday 29 Mar 2004 16:19, martin brandt wrote: > > Hello, > > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to > > .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the > > compression commands. Anyone know any

RE: [newbie] Wheel Mouse

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Echols
This is how I got mine to work. http://linuxquestions.org/questions/history/157510http://linuxquestions.org/ questions/history/157510 Bill -Original Message- From: Michael Risley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Wheel

[newbie] Wheel Mouse

2004-03-29 Thread Michael Risley
Hello, I installed Mandrake about 2 weeks ago, and while I've been able to fix my sound card issues I cant fix the functionality of the scroll wheel of my mouse. The mouse is standard 2button/scroll wheel, black with "Dell" on it that a friend gave me (the scroll works fine under Windows on th

[newbie] special keys

2004-03-29 Thread song
Hi All, Their something wrong with my Gnome special keys on my keyboard. I always use: - "Alt-Tab" to cycle all my open windows. - The "Alt-mouse 1" to grab and move a certain window. The weird thing is that sometime in work in Gnome but always work in KDE. This been happening since 9.1.

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread frankieh
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 10:42 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: -> From what I've read it is. Both slow and packet loss. I've ->researched a lot, and it's convinced me to avoid wireless. Which ->just became available in my area, cheaply, and I'm very close to ->the access node ant

[newbie] Can I network two local machines with a ADSL remote router

2004-03-29 Thread Stephen Reynolds
I've just bought a DSL-504 ADSL remote router(http://www.dlink.com.au/products/broadband/dsl504/) so that I can connect two stand-alone machines running Mandrake 10 to my ADSL account. I'm a total novice about networking, but I was wondering if once I have these two machines connected to this thin

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

2004-03-29 Thread Carl J. Bauman
http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html HTH, Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 29 March 2004 06:21, Bill Spatz wrote: Uh..DST is next weekend! Bill Uh... the rest of the world doesn't necessarily switch over on the same day we do!

Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Steve Kaufman wrote: Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote Trying again. HELP anyone..  HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even

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

2004-03-29 Thread Marv Boyes
Philip Cronje wrote: 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 scri

Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kaufman
Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote Trying again. HELP anyone..  HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during insta

Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-29 Thread Scott Mazur
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote >Trying again. HELP anyone.. > >  HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during install but it does nothing. I also just tried

Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Steve Kaurfman wrote: 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 _

Re: [newbie] How to kill printer queu?

2004-03-29 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 03:32, Marco Verheul wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having a HP deskjet 3325 attached at a usb port and it runs like a > charm. But a while ago I had major problems printing documents and had > to breack it of. Now it seems that there is still a lot of pages in the > queue, so for

[newbie] How to kill printer queu?

2004-03-29 Thread Marco Verheul
Hi all, I'm having a HP deskjet 3325 attached at a usb port and it runs like a charm. But a while ago I had major problems printing documents and had to breack it of. Now it seems that there is still a lot of pages in the queue, so for the last half hour my cartridge is getting waisted on stuff I

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 07:27, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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 neigh

Re: [newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...

2004-03-29 Thread Marc Resnick
Steve Kaurfman wrote: Marc Resnick wrote: I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0" Mar 28 22:33:05 localho

[newbie] mod_dav has got me all discombobulated

2004-03-29 Thread Todd Slater
I'm trying to set up mod_dav so I can use and share calendars using Mozilla's calendar project. So far I have: * installed apache2-mod_dav * followed instructions in tutorials (http://www.serverwatch.com/tutorials/article.php/10825_2176771_1 and http://questier.com/howto.html#CAL) * tried to p

Re: [newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kaurfman
Marc Resnick wrote: I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0" Mar 28 22:33:05 localhost dhcpcd[

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:57:40AM -0600, Tom Brinkman wrote: > I could use a pointer to a rar tool that also uses pars to fill in > missing parts. I use to have one, but foolishly forgot to save it > during a Mandrake OS install. That's probably just par or par2 (see http://parchive.sourceforge

[newbie] Grrrr...dhcpcd...

2004-03-29 Thread Marc Resnick
I logged my dhcpcd, still trying to figure out why it will never renew the lease. Here's the log Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd[23328]: terminating on signal 15 Mar 28 22:33:02 localhost dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0" Mar 28 22:33:05 localhost dhcpcd[26518]: broadcasting DHCP_REQUEST

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 March 2004 02:51 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: ->kwifimanager - http://kwifimanager.sourceforge.net/ ->I thought it was part of KDE now, but it does not seem to be in Mdk10.0 -> ->derek Thanks Derek - I'll check it out. --

[newbie] MS SP's are best Ad's for Linux

2004-03-29 Thread JoeHill
"A FRUSTRATED BUSINESSMAN has blown his top with Microsoft after he claimed that a critical security update for Windows 2000 made his PCs unuseable for weeks. Randy Hubbard, of Raceware Engineering LLC, claimed that SP4 contained defective software, and after going through a lengthy correspondenc

[newbie] Error in Locking Authority File

2004-03-29 Thread Epsilon 3
Hi, I tried searching the archives at archives.mandrakelinux.com/newbie/ but I couldn't find an answer to my problem. Can you help me? I have a: Pentium 3:600, 320MB SDRAM Computer I successfully installed Mandrake Linux Version 10. When I start my computer I get the prompt that asks me if I wan

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Alaa The Great
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 16:19:49 +0100 martin brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to > .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the > compression commands. An

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 16:19, martin brandt wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to > .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the > compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to > compress into .rar? > > Th

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 29 Mar 2004 15:38, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > On Monday 29 March 2004 07:20 am, Greg Meyer wrote: > > ->I think that is entirely dependent on the quality of your signal. I am > ->getting 0% loss right now, but I am literally sitting on top of my WAP, > which ->is betwwen the joists of the

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 March 2004 10:42 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: -> From what I've read it is. Both slow and packet loss. I've ->researched a lot, and it's convinced me to avoid wireless. Which ->just became available in my area, cheaply, and I'm very close to ->the access node antenna. Much of what I'v

Re: [newbie] The plot thickens!

2004-03-29 Thread Lanman
Paul wrote: Sorry, Lanman, After the announcement of the Halloween message about a week before that story you referenced I thought that this had been fairly rigourously discussed - must have been another group. Paul M No Biggie Paul. I noticed some references in that article to the 16.6 Millio

[newbie]For those of you that are close...

2004-03-29 Thread William Hatfield
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[newbie] For those of you that are close...

2004-03-29 Thread William Hatfield
http://sol.sac.accd.edu/~skolars/satlug/ Bill Hatfield

RE: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-29 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rhein Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:21 AM To: liste newbie Subject: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux? Hello, I want to buy a multifonct

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-29 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 March 2004 16:21, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) > like HP, Lexmark or Canon. > I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about > linux. Does any one on this list

Re: [newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 29 March 2004 10:19 am, martin brandt wrote: > Hello, > I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to > .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the > compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to > compress into .rar?

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-29 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 29 March 2004 10:21 am, rhein wrote: > Hello, > I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like > HP, Lexmark or Canon. > I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. > Does any one on this list have any experience with it? A lot of the H

RE: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-29 Thread Tony S. Sykes
I wasn't looking for blame to be placed anywhere, though MS is the door to lay all blame. I will try the apm=power-off though and see if it helps me. Thanks, Tony. It was reviews of speed which helped me decide to use Nforce. How naive, sorry. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 29 March 2004 12:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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 th

Re: [newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-29 Thread Lanman
rhein wrote: Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe Rhein Apparently, Brother has a few

[newbie] Multifonction printers and linux?

2004-03-29 Thread rhein
Hello, I want to buy a multifonction printer (printer, scanner, copier) like HP, Lexmark or Canon. I checked on the boxes in the shop but nothing is mentioned about linux. Does any one on this list have any experience with it? Thank you Christophe _

[newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread martin brandt
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to compress into .rar? Thanks a lot, Martin Brandt -- _

Re: [newbie] Sound with ASUS Motherboard P4P800

2004-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 29 March 2004 12:29 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 From Asus'

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 March 2004 07:20 am, Greg Meyer wrote: ->I think that is entirely dependent on the quality of your signal. I am ->getting 0% loss right now, but I am literally sitting on top of my WAP, which ->is betwwen the joists of the floor of my office. I have not tried in another ->part of

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 29 March 2004 07:59 am, otavio augusto viegas wrote: ->The rate of packet loss depends on the distance and the environment ->you're working. -> ->Normally, with the access point in the same room of your pc, you should ->get near 0 % packet loss. -> ->[]s -> ->Otávio Okay, I used the Wpm

[newbie] rar compression software

2004-03-29 Thread martin brandt
Hello, I was wondering if anyone could recommend some software to compress to .rar. Id use rar for linux but thats retail if i want to use the compression commands. Anyone know any other programs that allow me to compress into .rar? Thanks a lot, Martin Brandt -- __

Re: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 29 March 2004 03:26 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: > Just a side note I heard acpi and the rest was broken in some > of the 2.6 kernels. The reason main reason is when I turned > them off my machine does not power-off but does when they were > turned on in 2.4 kernel. I can't have them on in 2.

Re: [newbie] Internet stopped working

2004-03-29 Thread Rory
I just want to apologize if any of you personally received my spam dam challenge yesterday. I killed the mouse in MDK 10.0 and had to boot back in to XP and do a system restore there, too, with the intent of getting on the net and finding out how to use the keyboard in MDK to navigate to harddr

[newbie] The plot thickens!

2004-03-29 Thread Lanman
Gee! What a surprise! http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,91145,00.html Lanman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

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

2004-03-29 Thread Glenn
On Monday 29 March 2004 06:21, Bill Spatz wrote: > Uh..DST is next weekend! > > Bill Uh... the rest of the world doesn't necessarily switch over on the same day we do! -- 06:24:04 up 1 day, 22:58, running Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586, kernel 2.6.3-4mdk Registered

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

2004-03-29 Thread Jalberto mosino
--- Charlie Mahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On March 28, 2004 12:54 pm, Jalberto mosino wrote: > > > > i did wat follows: > > "use a floppy disk from FreeDOS? > > (http://www.freedos.org/) and do a 'fdisk /mbr' > and > > you should be ab

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

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Spatz
Uh..DST is next weekend! Bill - Original Message - From: "Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] package name? - HIJACKED THREAD> TIME PROBLEM On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:46 am, many eyes viewed Steve Kaurfman's wo

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

2004-03-29 Thread Jalberto mosino
--- Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > 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

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread otavio augusto viegas
The rate of packet loss depends on the distance and the environment you're working. Normally, with the access point in the same room of your pc, you should get near 0 % packet loss. []s Otávio Em Seg, 2004-03-29 às 03:27, Ronald J. Hall escreveu: > Yet another wireless question: > > Is packe

Re: [newbie] 10.0 update

2004-03-29 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:39:37 -0500 Lee Wiggers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-devel/cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist.cz > > > http://www.eslrahc.com/10.0/hdlist.cz > > ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake-devel/stable/i586/Mandrake/RPMS../base/hdlist.cz

Re: [newbie] YAWQ :-)

2004-03-29 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 29 March 2004 01:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > 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

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

2004-03-29 Thread Lanman
John Wilson wrote: 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,

RE: [newbie] 10 CE Shutdown

2004-03-29 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Just a side note I heard acpi and the rest was broken in some of the 2.6 kernels. The reason main reason is when I turned them off my machine does not power-off but does when they were turned on in 2.4 kernel. I can't have them on in 2.6 as I have an Nforce2 chipset and it does not work. Tony.