[newbie] Mandrake 10 Community installation problems ...

2004-04-02 Thread J Tandl
Hi, I am a REAL newbie (as you will see): I have installed Mandrake 10 Community from 4 CDs I bought from a linux vendor in Sydney. Before that, I had resized the C:drive, which was the whole hard drive and has W2K, and added a FAT32 partition (for sharing files between W2K and linux) and an

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:33 am, Rory wrote: Hi folks, Well, I just discovered that when I installed MDK 10 from a freshly formatted HD that had never had Linux on it before, that it appeared to install the 2.4 Kernel, not 2.6. Here's the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rory]$ uname -a Linux

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 11:11:40 +0100 Anne Wilson disseminated the following: If you can believe that you can believe anything. There are flaws in XP that have been known since the days of NT4. OK - security patches exist for most of them, but 2 releases on, why were they not fixed in the

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:58:45 -0500 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Good on you. See to it that you erase this list from your address book, as well. ROFL! How does that fish hook feel in your cheek, Marv? -- JoeHill Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org

Re: [newbie] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)

2004-04-02 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 00:50:09 -0800 Asa Rossoff disseminated the following: and weather p2p music sharing is good, bad, or immaterial to the recording industry, I don't know. It's *certainly* good for _music_ itself, and undoubtedly significantly increases distribution of music, particularly

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Lanman
JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 20:58:45 -0500 Marv Boyes disseminated the following: Good on you. See to it that you erase this list from your address book, as well. ROFL! How does that fish hook feel in your cheek, Marv? Well, nice to know I wasn't the only one taken in on this one! L

[newbie] mandrake 10 community ISO problem

2004-04-02 Thread Pete Doak
Hi: I've downloaded the three ISO's for Mandrake Community 10, and burned them to CD's. I followed the same procedure as I have with other linux ISO's, including Mandrake 9.2, 9.0 and etc. When I popped the CD-1 in the CD drive and restarted my computer I found that the computer would not boot

Re: [newbie] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)

2004-04-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 April 2004 06:01 pm, Lanman wrote: Hey Fajar; I don't think you should turn this into a political issue by laughing at our country. In case you forget, Canada is home to a large group of Indonesians. Canada is right next door to the

[newbie] OT: My bad taste of humor

2004-04-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I really hate myself. I

Re: [newbie] Evidence of the Superior Intelligence of Canadians ;-)

2004-04-02 Thread Lanman
Fajar Priyanto wrote: Oh no. I haven't monitor this thread for few days I'm really sorry. I didn't mean anything bad. My bad. Damn.. I hate myself. Really sorry about it. - -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 | http://linux.arinet.org Fajar; Please follow the thread of your post.

Re: [newbie] OT: My bad taste of humor

2004-04-02 Thread Lanman
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply sorry about it, and I want you to know that I didn't mean any bad intention towards anybody. goddamnit I

Re: [newbie] A little April Humor

2004-04-02 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:22, Bryan Phinney wrote: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20040401 A classic Paul M -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Karen Armstrong 'The History of God' Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] mandrake 10 community ISO problem

2004-04-02 Thread John Wilson
On April 2, 2004 06:36 am, Pete Doak wrote: snippity, snip, snip When I popped the CD-1 in the CD drive and restarted my computer I found that the computer would not boot off the CD. Just to make sure I had the computer configured right I put CD-1 from the 9.2 version, and it booted right up

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live

2004-04-02 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Title: RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security. Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing

[newbie] tulip ethernet card woes...

2004-04-02 Thread Phil Vossler
Does anyone know of any issues surrounding use of the tulip ethernet card driver under the default 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 10? The ethernet card has worked fine with the tulip driver under 9.2. I'm using drakconnect and it is at the select network interface to configure stage that Drakconnect

Re: [newbie] OT: My bad taste of humor

2004-04-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight about what my earlier post that it was causing a polemic in this list. I'm deeply

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:39 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:08, Lanman wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live

2004-04-02 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and

Re: [newbie] tulip ethernet card woes...

2004-04-02 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:34 pm, Phil Vossler wrote: Does anyone know of any issues surrounding use of the tulip ethernet card driver under the default 2.6 kernel in Mandrake 10? The ethernet card has worked fine with the tulip driver under 9.2.

[newbie] Getting VNCSERVER to start at boot?

2004-04-02 Thread James S. Hardin
Been a while since I've used linux, just to find out that init.d was replaced with xinit.d I need to remotely access the desktop on my MDK10 server. I've installed the tightvnc package, and it shows up in the rc.d directories, but until I run the command line vncserver command, I cannot connect

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 08:09, et wrote: note to self (cc. Aron) ... don't feed the trolls Pity you have to bring this up again and pity you yourself seem to endorse it. I had silently ignored it, as you might have noticed. I will not respond to hatred with hatred, or prejudice with prejudice. It

[newbie] Internet sound problems

2004-04-02 Thread Paul
I'm running Mandrake 10 Comm. and sound is OK on e.g. MP3 CD (so soundcard mixer) is set up but when using internet sound is very low distorted - using Real Audio plug-in for Mozilla Konqueror. Any advice please? Paul M. -- And, in the beginning, Man created god. Karen Armstrong 'The

Re: [newbie] Sending a packet

2004-04-02 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op donderdag 1 april 2004 23:00, schreef Marc Resnick: Is there an easy way to send a homemade packet in Linux? I Googled, and just found some C++ scripts on sending raw packets from the Kernel. I really don't know that much about this stuff. I'm

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Ronald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 12:35:45 PM, you wrote: BP On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I agree

Re: [newbie] Getting VNCSERVER to start at boot?

2004-04-02 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 02 April 2004 11:25 am, James S. Hardin wrote: Been a while since I've used linux, just to find out that init.d was replaced with xinit.d I need to remotely access the desktop on my MDK10 server. I've installed the tightvnc package, and it shows up in the rc.d directories, but until

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 01 April 2004 09:40 am, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:09, Larry Varney wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to

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

2004-04-02 Thread Philip Cronje
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 19:58:00 -0500, Marv Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I _do_ appear to have used the Loki installer, just mirrored on another site. I suppose it's possible that the version I used was something someone else cobbled together, but the READMEs are identical (I tried the Loki

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:48 am, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan, Thursday, April 1, 2004, 12:35:45 PM, you wrote: BP On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:52 am, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I

Re: [newbie] Playing DVDs in Mandrake 9.2

2004-04-02 Thread rhein
Travis Crook wrote: Hi all, I am having a hard time playing DVDs. I can put in a DVD and open Totem (or Xine). It will start to play and will even give me the correct title of the DVD. Then I get an error stating: The movie 'Error reading NAV packet.' could not be read. Does anyone

[newbie] DVD regions?

2004-04-02 Thread rhein
Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the region in the input section of the xine config

[newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
My messages sent over the past 24-36 hours have not made the list, as far as I can tell, so this may not, either. :-) But, in case the mail server eventually gets the enema it apparently needs, I should report that the problem below has been solved. Not sure what caused the problem/change in

[newbie] Don't you just hate it when people send test messages to the list...

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
...like I'm doing here? :-) I've been on an involuntary hiatus from the list, ever since smtp.mandrax.org started rejecting my messages mid-day Tuesday, first with a response (24 hours after sending) of: Message delivery to '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' delayed SMTP module(domain

[newbie] Test

2004-04-02 Thread Chuck Mattsen
I'm in DNS hell, apparently, and able to receive from the list, but not to send. Just talked to my ISP, so testing to see if they did anything worthwhile... :-\ As you were. -- Chuck Mattsen / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / RLU #346519 Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Community) for i586 kernel 2.6.3-4mdk

[newbie] Different Panels and System Monitors

2004-04-02 Thread Job Evers
What different panels are available? I know of gnome-panel and gdesklets, but have seen a bunch of other panels in screenshots online. Gdesklets also offer system monitors, clocks, etc. What alternatives are available? Cheers -- Job Evers

[newbie] KDE Crash

2004-04-02 Thread Drew Martin
Hi All, I'm having problems booting into KDE 3.1.When I try to log on it gets to stage 3 of the log on and stops.I then get the error message nspluginscan has crashed and caused the signal 11(SIGSEGV) I can still log into Gnome and Xfce4,but I then have to kill nspluginscan,from

[newbie] Test - please ignore

2004-04-02 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Test - please ignore. Kaj Haulrich -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

RE: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Josh
Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of applications that ship with Linux vs. the amount of applications that ship with windows. They did

[newbie] Painfully slow page loads

2004-04-02 Thread tim g
It's taking my mandrake 10 (just installed) box way too long to load a page. Doesn't matter whether I'm in mozilla, firefox or the KDE one (conqueror I think). This isn't a problem on my debian machine or on the win2K box my girlfriend uses. 9.2 didn't have these problems before I upgraded -

Re: [newbie] Accessing Secure Webpages: PROBLEM UPDATE

2004-04-02 Thread David
First off let me apoligise for the way this thread is appearing but I have been checking my mail at home the have to travel to friends to access my mail account via webmail to send. Have this morning ajusted my account settings so my mail stays on the isp's server a a few days so I can click on

Re: [newbie] OT: My bad taste of humor

2004-04-02 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 22:30:30 +0700 Fajar Priyanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 10:02 pm, Lanman wrote: Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just noticed tonight

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 08:30 am, JoeHill wrote: It's a mildly interesting statistic that Mandrake came out not so near the top, but hey, we're competing with Red Hat, Debian and Suse here, these are tough competitors, so I'm not surprised. They have serious financial and/or human resources

Re: [newbie] OT: My bad taste of humor

2004-04-02 Thread Lanman
Lee Wiggers wrote: Feel the love It was a good prod. Good to wake everyone up now and then since Joe quit raising hell. Lee OOO! I'm getting a warm, fuzzy feeling ! I just have to hold my temper in check long enough to see if there's more than one way to take someone else's

Re: [newbie] DVD regions?

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 09:04 am, rhein wrote: Hell His there a limitation with the DVD regions under linux like with XP? I have zone 1 and 2 DVDs. What a stupid thing this limitation since you can buy original region 1 movies in a region 2 country. I looked at Kaffeine and I can change the

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Glenn
On Friday 02 April 2004 15:44, Bryan Phinney wrote: Last, I would take with several grains of salt, anything that any of the analyst companies put out regarding Linux and Microsoft products. We have seen several get bought and steer studies in the direction that MS wants as well as refusing

[newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Stephanus Fengler
Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got exactly 1GB). However, if I

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Charles Ramsey
On Thu, 01 Apr 2004 12:40:07 -0300 Josenildo Marques [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:09, Larry Varney wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux

Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Marc Resnick
Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the reason then, because I have got

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live

2004-04-02 Thread Marco Terzuoli
Hi, I have just installed Mandrake 10.0 Community and I have a problem having my Sound Blaster Live working correctly. Actually the installer recognizes it and (hopefully) installs the correct driver, but there is no way of hearing anything, except from interferences from the microphone and

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Rory
Yes, I did a regular install. I'm not sure what an LSB install is, though. It would have been useful if the install package would have pointed this out at the time. What's the best way to move to 2.6 kernel, after the fact? Through Lilo (which I've never used). Or, could there be

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 05:58 pm, Glenn wrote: I was thinking this analyst company sounded familiar and then it occurred to me that Forrester Research is the company who changed its policy about sponsored research studies when they got caught last year, right?

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Friday 02 April 2004 07:06 pm, Rory wrote: Yes, I did a regular install. I'm not sure what an LSB install is, though. It would have been useful if the install package would have pointed this out at the time. The install package does point this out. I suspect that with all the other

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Rory
Okay, based on your comments about the Install warning, I'm pretty sure I did not make that selection when I first installed and probably had 2.6 loaded. I think something must have happened when I was downloading a number of the developer's tools, in an effort to find a dependency so I

Re: [newbie] cleaning swap partition after suspend to disk failed

2004-04-02 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 19:03, Stephanus Fengler wrote: Hi folks, I tried the acpi feature (nor swsup) hibernation to disk. It look like everything went right down but resuming doesn't work. I read somwhere else, that it only works with less then 1GB RAM. Is that true? (That's probably the

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Asa Rossoff
Josenildo Marques wrote: I have not only erased Linux from my precious computer, but I've also come back to Windows, the best operating system ever ! Linux experience is, to say the least, disappointing and frustrating. I'm feeling so much better that I can't avoid giving you this piece of

Re: [newbie] good and bad news mandrakesoft security.

2004-04-02 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 02 April 2004 23:17, Josh wrote: Thought this might be an interesting read to some of you. http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1557749,00.asp The one thing I didn't get from the article was if they factored in the amount of

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Stephanus Fengler
Rory wrote: Okay, based on your comments about the Install warning, I'm pretty sure I did not make that selection when I first installed and probably had 2.6 loaded. I think something must have happened when I was downloading a number of the developer's tools, in an effort to find a

Re: [newbie] back to the good old Windows

2004-04-02 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 02 April 2004 05:13 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 02:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 02 April 2004 08:48 am, Ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 2 april 2004 09:37, schreef Aron Smith: On Thursday 01 April 2004 02:08 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Bryan,

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.0 installed 2.4 Kernel. Why?

2004-04-02 Thread Paul
On 04/03/2004 02:55 AM, J Tandl wrote: Did you select the LSB package group? I read (at http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/5314/1/) that that will install the 2.4 kernel to ensure LSB-compliance (what ever that is ... :-[ ) LSB = Linux Standard Base project. See

[newbie] Webcams...

2004-04-02 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Anyone had any luck/know resources for using a Micro Innovations Flexicam, model ic70c, working with Mandrake? Thanks! PS I've got a Logitech Pro 3000 that works great with my desktop, but this model would be nice with my laptop. :-) --