Re: [newbie] opening a floppy based file in OO

2004-05-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > I am trying to access a file written in MS word format and stored on a > floppy using Open ofice > KDE says that there is nothing on the floppy but propertys says that the > file is 167K > any Ideas? > thanks > smitty Never mind the dumbsh*t saved

[newbie] opening a floppy based file in OO

2004-05-17 Thread Aron Smith
I am trying to access a file written in MS word format and stored on a floppy using Open ofice KDE says that there is nothing on the floppy but propertys says that the file is 167K any Ideas? thanks smitty Want to buy your Pack or Services fro

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread frankieh
Marc wrote: On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I

[newbie] XFCE4

2004-05-17 Thread David B. Williams
Does anyone know how I get the terminal from the task bar on Xfce4 to start in a particular directory? I have looked at all of the "stuff" in the .Xfce4 directory and nothing seems to have anything to do with the terminal start point. By-the-way, I am using /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt and have checked in

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Ed Chadwick
On May 17, 2004, at 4:44 PM, lake-wind wrote: Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice

[newbie] geforce mx4000/nvidia

2004-05-17 Thread John
Hello Would appreciate any information or links that would help with installation and setup of a new video card. I am running md10 official with 2.6.3-7 kernel. I thought the nvidia drivers were included on the installation cd's but can't locate them. Thanks in advance. John

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-17 Thread Roland Hughes
The latest linux journal has a large write up on various sound manipulation packages. Roly On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've > tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't bei

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-17 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:28 pm, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've > tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being > developed anymore. > > Anybody know of software I can try for this? I'm using audicity m

RE: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-17 Thread Bill Shirley
Yes, very nice explanation. Bill > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kaj Haulrich > Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 5:41 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'? > > > On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56,

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: "Damian Gatabria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Damian Gatabria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > That's probably not corruption. You are just > > > experiencing one difference between > > > windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. > > > > > > When you open the textfile on windows > >

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
> From: "Damian Gatabria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > That's probably not corruption. You are just > > experiencing one difference between > > windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. > > > > When you open the textfile on windows > > you see a small square where the line should > > end, ri

[newbie] dev file question

2004-05-17 Thread Grant
Hello! I had my win modem working with penggy to dial up to AOL, but every time I restarted the computer I had to: rm /dev/modem because there was a different symlink in there, and then: ln -s /dev/modem /dev/tts/LT0 This worked great for a while, but yesterday things were acting strange and n

Re: [newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-17 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 18:28, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. > I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't > being developed anymore. > > Anybody know of software I can try for this? > > Eric Jackson

[newbie] Confused about domain names

2004-05-17 Thread Steve Mansfield
I'm a little uncertain about which domain name to use for my network configuration. Here's the setup: * I have a small home network. Until today, only one of the machines on it was running Linux - now I've installed Mandrake 10 Community on another. * I own a domain name - let's call it mydomain

[newbie] recording records to hard drive

2004-05-17 Thread eric jackson
Hi,   I'm trying to record some of my old record albums to my hard drive. I've tried using Gramofile but I didn't get great results and it isn't being developed anymore.   Anybody know of software I can try for this?   Eric Jackson   [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread lake-wind
Thanks for replying. I only had the cd sources set up for urpmi and prior to my post, when I tried urpmi drakconf I got an error message stating there was no such package. So, apparently on my 5 cd set, drakconf does not exist. I took your advice, set up my sources from one of the mirrors, ran

[newbie] For ROX/Sylpheed users

2004-05-17 Thread JoeHill
Had an idea, and with some help (pathetic when you see how easy it is) on the ROX list: I created a new AppDir which allows one to drag a file or group of files onto it, whereupon a compose window opens with the file(s) attached. Kewl huh? http://www.orderinchaos.org/Filesend.tar.gz -- JoeHil

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread LtCdData
still on community here but ever since 9.x ive had similar issues with stuff not getting installed that should have been... you seem to have to manually add them in at install time or the not so clever installer can decide for you not to install all sorts anyway just go through your cd

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread lake-wind
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:45 pm, Marc wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: > > I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find > > the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why > > it didn't install and how to install it? > > I

[newbie] urpmi main source

2004-05-17 Thread C. Tresenriter
I'm running 10.0 official - updated from CE via downloaded iso's I can't seem to add a source for a main mirror. I've tried seven or eight different ones over the last two days trying both MCC and urpmi with no luck. Sources for plf, contrib, updates and a local folder were added with no proble

[newbie] 10OE and Speedtouch USB ADSL

2004-05-17 Thread JRH
Hi all..   I posted last week about the lack of functionality of the Alcatel Speedtouch 330 USB ADSL modem under 10 OE.   I have tried everything to get it to work. With no success!   It works fine under 9.2 and 10 CE, so why not 10 OE?   Can anybody throw any further pointers at me?   I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Marc
On Monday 17 May 2004 02:09 pm, lake-wind wrote: > I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the > Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it > didn't install and how to install it? It is probably installed. You sound new to ML so I will

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread Ed Chadwick
On Monday 17 May 2004 15:09, lake-wind wrote: > I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the > Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it > didn't install and how to install it? I just had the same problem. Assuming you've got your sources

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center - 10 Official

2004-05-17 Thread lake-wind
I just finished an installation of Mandrake 10 official and can't find the Mandrake Control Center (drakconf) anywhere. Anyone have an idea why it didn't install and how to install it? -- Registered Linux User: 271967 Want to buy your Pack o

Re: [newbie] lost display manager in 10.0

2004-05-17 Thread Ed Chadwick
On Friday 14 May 2004 15:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > 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. >

Re: [newbie] mdk 10 official (public) download?

2004-05-17 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: "Björn Lundin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > What is it I see when i browse an offical mdk 10 dowload site such as > > ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrakelinux/official/10.0/i586 > > ? > Is it something that should be burnt on a dvd? > > Are there no iso-images anymore? I think you have to be a cl

Re: [newbie] Networking 2000/LM10

2004-05-17 Thread Trevor Rhodes
Thanks to both Joe and Lanman. Now to tell the poor person I asked the question for. Lucky him. :^) On Mon, 17 May 2004 10:22 pm, Lanman wrote: > Trevor Rhodes wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > On a dual boot system with Win2000 and LM10 is it possible to access the > > LM10 partitions from Win200

[newbie] 10

2004-05-17 Thread Phlip J Scott
Hi all just installed man 10 on 3 cd`s everything went smoothly untill reboot. When it boots up it gets to "looking for new hardware" and will go no further just hangs. Any help on this would be greatly recieved. Philip. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (h

Re: [newbie] 10

2004-05-17 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 11:57 -0500, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 17:29 +0100, Phlip J Scott wrote: > > Hi all just installed man 10 on 3 cd`s everything went smoothly untill > > reboot. When it boots up it gets to "looking for new hardware" and will go > > no further just hangs. Any

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-17 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 17 May 2004 11:41:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: > > > Kaj Haulrich. > -- > * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * > * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 * > > I'll buy one right now. Lee ___

Re: [newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 17 May 2004 11:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello Friends, > > I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded > nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives > errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once

[newbie] spaces in samba shared forders

2004-05-17 Thread hugenots
Haiz newbie, how to prevent in samba shares create folders and files containing spaces ore some other characters in names.?. force, my friend, is violence! hugenots [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Memory card reader shows carbage

2004-05-17 Thread John Zoetebier
I have a USB cardreader which is mounted automatically on Mandrake 9.2 as /mnt/hd This happens if I plug in the card reader with a multi-media card in it. However when I open de mount I see the card reader reading, red light is flashing, and see many entries with just carbage. When I use the sa

[newbie] Re: Epson printer woes

2004-05-17 Thread John Zoetebier
On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:39:58 -0300, Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, I am having a bit of difficulty getting my Epson StylusColor 480SXU to work on my Mdk 9.2 system. I had managed to get it to work *OK* with the Turboprint driver (v1.86) previously, but I updated to the latest T

[newbie] X sometimes start sometimes does not ??!!

2004-05-17 Thread hertas
Hello Friends, I use Mndrk 10.0 (download edition)- Kernel 2.6 . But when I loaded nividia drivers I have problems . X sometimes does not start. And it gives errors that NVIDIA(0) couldn't loaded. When I re-install nvidia driver once more X starts normally and then can not next time (next boot

Re: [newbie] Why is my FAT always corrupted

2004-05-17 Thread Damian Gatabria
That's probably not corruption. You are just experiencing one difference between windows-like linebreaks and Unix-style linebreaks. When you open the textfile on windows you see a small square where the line should end, right? This is normal. If you need to convert a file to windows style, try i

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-17 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: > One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is > by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry > entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable > 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write >

[newbie] USB Flash memory.

2004-05-17 Thread hertas
Dear Friends, I have an IOMEGA 128 mb USB (1.1) flash memory. When I plug it to USB port my system ( Mandrake 10.0 - kernel 2.6. ) recognizes and mounts it under /mnt/removable but when I want to go into it and save a data and to copy files from that. System says that device is not reachable. I

Re: [newbie] How to trouble shoot 'eth0 FAILED'?

2004-05-17 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 17 May 2004 03:08, David A. Ferguson wrote: > > > Thanks to several tips I found my problem. Turning off 'Network > > > Hotplugging' in MCC networking fixed it. One poster mentioned you > > > could get the same effect by setting MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=no in > > > > > > /etc/sysconfig/net

[newbie] My notebook's modem and kernel 2.6

2004-05-17 Thread hertas
Dear friends, I have a new notebook ( Fujitsu Siemens 1840 ). Its modem is smartlink 56k (onboard). Under linux ,chipset name is Sis 7013. I downloaded latest linux driver (2.9.7) from Smartlink's Site . I installed it. Bu it does not run . When running Kppp and make " query modem" ,system finds