Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread Frank
And just another thought. I found that unless you included [ actually typed ] the file extension name ( eg *.txt) then my system when within windows is not happy about it at all. To check others concerns issue the following from your command client: $su Password #fdisk /dev/hda

Re: [newbie] kernel 2.4 in 10.0 OE

2004-05-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Thomas Wilkowski wrote: The 2.4 kernel should have been automatically installed when you installed mdk10. If it was not than, yes you can install it and it will install side by side. You will also have to edit /etc/lilo.conf. But before you do please double check /etc/lilo.conf to see if the

[newbie] nvidia5336 + MDK 10.0official

2004-05-14 Thread Baka Tamás
Hi! I installed the nvidia driver the usual way (logout from x, kill mdkdm, X, delete x-lock from tmp, install kernel sources, runinstaller, change nv to nvidia), but upon restarting x, it simply hangs with some blueish lines at the bottom of the screen. Only reset works, and changing nvidia

[newbie] xmms + playlist

2004-05-14 Thread Baka Tamás
Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms forgets the k-jofol setting and shows it's main window Why? Tenchi

[newbie] tvtuner + mdk10.0official

2004-05-14 Thread Baka Tamás
Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With 10.0 official however, when i start up - or restart - the machine, it simply forgets that I have a tvtuner. i have to start drakxtv manually each time... why? How can I make the detection permanent? Tenchi

[newbie] 10.0 slower than 9.2?

2004-05-14 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Simple test: same movies that in 9.2 played fine and smooth in 10.0 skip LOTS of frames. I tried with mplayer, xine and totem, always the same result. Yes, it's an old mobo (AMD K6-2/550), but in 9.2 it did its job. So I successfully installed the 2.4.25 kernel provided on the 10.0 cd, but was

Re: [newbie] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL

2004-05-14 Thread Alexandre Aractingi
Le ven 14/05/2004 à 06:51, g2 a écrit : I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How do I get there? gnomecc is the Gnome Control Center. It is

Re: [newbie] *HELP* About where to reg no. etc.

2004-05-14 Thread PM
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 00:08, Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote: Hello. I have made som 9.2 cds of the 3 iso files and like to know where I find the number for registering and serfication etc for Mandrakelinux 9.2. --- Hi Gert, You get a registration number when you buy Mandrake, not when you

[newbie] Kontact problems

2004-05-14 Thread SME Admin
Hi Folks I've got several mail accounts setup in Kontact but am having a few problems with collecting email. I'm on ADSL via a router, so any machine that is on the network is on the internet. I'm using Mandrake 10 and Kontact for email, news, etc. Most times whenever I check email I get an

Re: [newbie] moving to kde mail under 10.0 Official

2004-05-14 Thread John Layt
No worries, I've embarressed myself a few times forgetting things were hidden and wondering why I couldn't find them, so it's something that now comes easily to mind :-))) John. On Fri, 14 May 2004 10:30, g2 wrote: ah yes, ok, that did the trick. Actually I did not know what the . stood

[newbie] Floppy under 10CE

2004-05-14 Thread rluchor
I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich

Re: [newbie] cdrom

2004-05-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:21 pm, John wrote: Thanks Tom and Derek for your replies. Haven't been able to connect to the internet to check mail until today. Had to borrow a connection. Followed your advice in first email,tom, and cd works. Great! Have to get modem up now. It is a

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-14 Thread lake-wind
On Friday 14 May 2004 12:08 am, Marc Lijour wrote: Le May 12, 2004 05:08 pm, Paul Smith a écrit : Dear All Does somebody here know when it is planned to have the iso CDs of MDK 10 Official for free download? Many thanks, Paul Get them at the club ;-) That's very good advice,

[newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd

2004-05-14 Thread Thujan
Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In cd it had to be iso-image doesn't it? But what about in usb zib, I mean pen drive. Thank you, -- best rgds tt 17:37:38 up 53 min, 0 users,

Re: [newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd

2004-05-14 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 14 May 2004 09:42 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In cd it had to be iso-image doesn't it? But what about in usb zib, I mean pen drive. Thank

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the shared data on a FAT. Whenever I write to it from Linux it almost always comes up corrupted. Is there some special setting I should have in my 'fstab' or something? It is so bad that it is basically useless. I don't do

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
- Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between Linux and W2k. I store the

Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE

2004-05-14 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to get it to work Rich Is the disk write

R: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery

2004-05-14 Thread Donato
the service Acpi is not present...the system cannot find it... And now, what can i do? Best Regards - Original Message - From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 6:37 AM Subject: Re: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux?

2004-05-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
David A. Ferguson wrote: - Original Message - From: Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted by Linux? Le May 13, 2004 05:00 pm, David A. Ferguson a écrit : I dual boot between

Re: [newbie] mkbootdisk to usb zip and cd

2004-05-14 Thread Thujan
Tom Brinkman kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 14. toukokuuta 2004 18:36): On Friday 14 May 2004 09:42 am, Thujan wrote: Hi, I discovered that #mkbootdisk doesn't fit on floppy no more, because 1.44mb isn't enough space . How do I make bootimage to usb zip or/and cd-r? In

Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0

2004-05-14 Thread Ed Chadwick
On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 20:47, Ed Chadwick wrote: Hello all,

Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

2004-05-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200 Baka Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! In 10.0 official, the xmms playlist seems to work seperately from the main window. When I try to minimize the main window, the playlist simply stays there. Choosing a k-jofol skin would be ok, but upon restart xmms

Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

2004-05-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
Woops, wrong list ;-) .. I mean right list for the post .. but I'm using Gentoo on this system with the problems .. so it seems that MDK and Gentoo share some resemblance ;-) On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:03:06 +0200 Ralph Slooten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:35:36 +0200 Baka

[newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread John
Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux equivalent, I

Re: R: R: [newbie] Klaptop doesn't recognize my battery

2004-05-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Donato wrote: the service Acpi is not present...the system cannot find it... And now, what can i do? Best Regards Did you use acpi or Acpi? It makes a difference. Also, check if you have the directory /proc/acpi because if you don't then it doesn't pay to go any farther. (Your BIOS

Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

2004-05-14 Thread Baka Tams
The k-jofol skin didn't help as the next time I restarted, it showed the original xmms window... :-( 2004. mjus 14. 20.06 dtummal Ralph Slooten ezt rta: Woops, wrong list ;-) .. I mean right list for the post .. but I'm using Gentoo on this system with the problems .. so it seems that MDK and

Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0

2004-05-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 14 May 2004 19:54, Ed Chadwick wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:24, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 21:14, Ed Chadwick wrote: Thanks, but I already checked that, and it's set to 5 as it should be. Ed. On Thursday 13 May 2004 15:12, you wrote: On

Re: [newbie] Re: CanoScan LiDE 50??

2004-05-14 Thread Alan Shoemaker
On Thursday 13 May 2004 09:14 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Alan Shoemaker wrote: On Thursday 13 May 2004 05:52 pm, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I just got Mandrake 10 and boy is it much better, the best yet but there is one problem and I was wondering if there is a way to configure my

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread B.J. McClure
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:11, John wrote: As a second question, is there any easy way to make the Linux machine 'see' the windows partition on its own hard drive, so as to transfer files etc. The following worked for me on ntfs partitions (w2k). mkdir /mnt/windows Using your

[newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

2004-05-14 Thread robin
I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work for i in * do if [-d $i]; then cd $i and so

Re: [newbie] cant synch to palm pilot; MD 10.0 OFL

2004-05-14 Thread David B. Williams
On Friday 14 May 2004 04:40 am, Alexandre Aractingi wrote: Le ven 14/05/2004 à 06:51, g2 a écrit : I have tried under both jpilot and pilot. I have received the message: Warning (gpilotd) Unknown pilot- no pilots matches ID -1073745932 Use gnomecc to set pilots ID Whats that? How

Re: [newbie] My school board is considering moving to Linux!

2004-05-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 13 May 2004 01:06:51 -0400 Marc Lijour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My school board is investigating a Citrix + thin-client solution. Administrative desktop are XP and students win98. They are considering Linux Citrix is available for Linux. I was looking at it for testing purposes in a

Re: [newbie] xmms + playlist

2004-05-14 Thread Ralph Slooten
Hiya Baka, But when you loaded it (k-jofol) ... did the playlist also minimilise? (/me is too lazy this evening to try, hehehe) On Fri, 14 May 2004 20:34:27 +0200 Baka Tamás [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The k-jofol skin didn't help as the next time I restarted, it showed the original xmms

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 9 May 2004 17:01:37 -0400 Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: alt.binaries.sounds.ogg alt.binaries.sounds.lossless But shhh. Too late; I overheard something. Todd -- David E. Fox

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-14 Thread Paul Smith
lake-wind wrote: On Friday 14 May 2004 12:08 am, Marc Lijour wrote: Does somebody here know when it is planned to have the iso CDs of MDK 10 Official for free download? Get them at the club ;-) That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 9 May 2004 09:56:00 -0400 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom, I've used the XMMS diskwriter route to burning audio CD's here ever since the first time I saw you post it some time back... :-) Me too :), and probably longer. I'm very happy with it for two reasons - one, it's

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to my music. :-) Speaking of headphone listening, have you done any

Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

2004-05-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought this would work

Re: [newbie] mp3 and ogg decode to different sizes

2004-05-14 Thread Todd Slater
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 02:01:46PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: On Sun, 9 May 2004 14:12:37 -0400 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 May 2004 01:23 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: It's actually much easier to hear with earphones, which is the only way my wife will let me listen to

Re: [newbie] tvtuner + mdk10.0official

2004-05-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 14 May 2004 02:42 am, Baka Tamás wrote: Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With 10.0 official however, when i start up - or restart - the machine, it simply forgets that I have a tvtuner. i have to start drakxtv manually each time... why? How can

[newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers

2004-05-14 Thread Johan
Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy way..looking at some

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
John wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me). So far I really like the system - if it wasn't for a few vital programs that have no Linux

Re: [newbie] mp3gain

2004-05-14 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 7 May 2004 00:43:35 -0400 JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone got the Linux binary for mp3gain hanging around? The author has no Linux binaries available on his site now, and I get no response to e-mails. Joe, let me know and I'll email the binary to you, if you haven't already

Re: [newbie] Newbie network question

2004-05-14 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 14 May 2004 16:45:42 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John wrote: Hi, I'm new to Linux (Just got my copy of mandrake 10 this morning). I managed to partition my hard drive and install Mandrake with no problems (amazing, for a newbie klutz like me).

Re: [newbie] tvtuner + mdk10.0official

2004-05-14 Thread Baka Tams
I found a solutiona t the forums in /etc/modprobe.preload write bttv Haven't reload yet hope it will work... 2004. mjus 14. 23.13 dtummal Dennis Myers ezt rta: On Friday 14 May 2004 02:42 am, Baka Tams wrote: Hi! I use a tvtuner card for years with mandrake without any problems. With

Re: [newbie] [Somewhat OT] Recursing in bash

2004-05-14 Thread robin
Todd Slater wrote: On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 11:18:32PM +0300, robin wrote: I'm trying to write a bash script that will recurse through a directory, find Word files, then run antiword on them. Unfortunately, I'm stuck on the first stage, which is to get it to recognise a directory. I'd thought

Re: [newbie] Floppy under 10CE

2004-05-14 Thread rluchor
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 12:34, David A. Ferguson wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am unable to do anything with the floppy drive under 10CE except read it, even as root. If I attempt to copy anything to floppy I get a 'permission denied' message. Anyone have a clue as to how to

[newbie] Modem installation

2004-05-14 Thread John
Hello I have a external usrobotics usb faxmodem that I would like to use on MD10 official if possible. Harddrake recognizes the modem but lists it under scanner category. How would I get it setup to use? Thanks john Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Howto install nvidia drivers

2004-05-14 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Johan napisa: Hi, I installed a ready compiled kernel..but have nividia card. Ok, it boots up to a command line login..after some screen on/off's. Rebooting in original is ok. Maybe I have to install some drivers on the new kernel..because its working on the old? Is there a easy

Re: [newbie] mp3gain

2004-05-14 Thread JoeHill
On Fri, 14 May 2004 14:17:06 -0700 David E. Fox disseminated the following: Joe, let me know and I'll email the binary to you, if you haven't already gotten one. I did a quick look for it, it seems that it might have been originally done for Windows and/or beos, but there was source patches