[newbie] modem needs long time to start

2004-05-23 Thread Herman Christiani
Hi, with several versions tried (Mandrake 9.1, 9.2 and 10) the external Dynalink modem needs at least 1 minute to initialize. After this there is no problem to connect, with SuSE and Red Hat the initialization was nearly instandly, am I missing something or do I have to live with the delay?

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 15:38, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 22 May 2004 12:36 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: Would you do me a flavor? In the interests of Science? To test this theory of mine, that this is perhaps germane to the video card itself, would you turn on system bios shadowing, but

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 15:18, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:18, JoeHill wrote: ...betcha gotta be root to access eth0, most net traffic monitors I've used were like that. Absolutely right ! Thanks ! Nice twist in the right direction, Joe. :) LX

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-23 Thread Steve Mansfield
--- On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:56, Erylon Hines wrote: | To keep this on topic, Opera 7.5 is an excellent browser with a very | attractive interface. The Opera folks did a good job and deserve the | praise. Absolutely right - my point is that I like each job to be done by a

Re: [newbie] Dead Laptop

2004-05-23 Thread Asa Rossoff
From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot off the floppy drive. I need tom get mandrake on this box (hey she's cute) Laptop is a Toshibatecra 550cdt any way to force it to

Re: [newbie] Dead Laptop

2004-05-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Sunday 23 May 2004 03:51 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot off the floppy drive. I need tom get mandrake on this box (hey she's cute)

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread John
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 18:21, John wrote: I have just installed nvidia geforce mx 4000 graphics card. Installation appeared to go ok using the md10 driver and kernel source.I am using the opengl screensavers however and they are now moving frame by frame instead of flowing as

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the kernel source

Re: [newbie] undelivered mail notices

2004-05-23 Thread Frank Bax
At 06:51 PM 5/22/04, John wrote: I am having problems getting through to the list. I keep getting undelivered mail notices. I have sent several e-mails to the postmaster at mandrax.org but have yet to receive a response. I have posted and had replies and then received the notice. Help please

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:05, Steve Mansfield wrote: SNIP I like Opera a lot, but I wish they'd produce a 'lite' version which was just a browser, the way Mozilla has done with Firebird/Firefox. That said (and talking about deadweight) I have Netscape, Mozilla, Opera, Firebird and Firefox

Re: [newbie] How to fix linmodem for 2.6 kernel

2004-05-23 Thread Katinka Peter
On Sunday 23 May 2004 00:42, murallo wrote: Hi, I'm an improving newbie - that means I can do most of the things that linux deems to be essential like downloading weird libraries and recompiling kernels without having to ask too many questions from the helpful folk online. However I'd

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 23 May 2004 03:30:06 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: ...betcha gotta be root to access eth0, most net traffic monitors I've used were like that. Absolutely right ! Thanks ! Nice twist in the right direction, Joe. :) Hey, even brainwashed socialist

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 10:22, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 23 May 2004 03:30:06 -0400 Lyvim Xaphir disseminated the following: ...betcha gotta be root to access eth0, most net traffic monitors I've used were like that. Absolutely right ! Thanks ! Nice twist in the right

Re: [newbie] Strange Activity

2004-05-23 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 22 May 2004 8:18 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:18, JoeHill wrote: ...betcha gotta be root to access eth0, most net traffic monitors I've used were like that. Absolutely right ! Thanks ! If you're running 2.6 kernel there might be a better way by setting

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread John
Walt Frampus wrote: On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 07:50, John wrote: Hello The .run file did not find the kernel source file. How would I specify the kernel source path? I have tried several of the command options listed in the read me text. The nvidia-installer log says that it is unable to find the

Re: [newbie] nvidia geforce graphics card

2004-05-23 Thread Walt Frampus
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 11:12, John wrote: Walt I had to remove the kernel source that I had installed from the cd's and reinstall. After that it was a very short time and everything was working great. It has been a learning experience for me and frustrating at times. Thanks for your help

Re: [newbie] Opera

2004-05-23 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 23 May 2004 15:51, Derek Jennings wrote: On Sunday 23 May 2004 09:05, Steve Mansfield wrote: SNIP I like Opera a lot, but I wish they'd produce a 'lite' version which was just a browser, the way Mozilla has done with Firebird/Firefox. That said (and talking about deadweight) I

[newbie] How to format install Mdk10oe on JFFS2?

2004-05-23 Thread David A. Ferguson
How to format install Mdk10oe on JFFS2? I would like to put Mdk10 on a small (100MB) IDE flash drive but JFFS2 is not listed as one of the standard options. How can I format the drive as JFFS2 and install Mdk10oe? I was thinking to along these lines: 1. Install Mdk in ram disk 2. Use

[newbie] Option to select eth0 during install?

2004-05-23 Thread David A. Ferguson
Option to select eth0 during install? Mdk10oe selects the wrong ethernet driver during installation. I install/boot via PXE. I can get around the problem by adding the expert option. The expert option will let me pick the network driver manually. It works but then there are a lot of other

[newbie] How to fsck your KDE menus, and fix them in one easy lesson

2004-05-23 Thread Chris
I had this experience yesterday and thought I'd throw out to the list how I fixed it to. Hopefully to save someone else the agony I went through. I was adding an item to the KDE menu yesterday when I got interupped. I had already added the submenu. I came back to the system and closed out

Re: [newbie] XFree86-DRI

2004-05-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 18 May 2004 22:16:43 -0600 Ron Hunter-Duvar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got Mahjongg 3D working. Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what I did to get it working. I downloaded the 0.92 release from the author's web site (I Do you have a link? I figured it might be on sourceforge, so I

[newbie] test

2004-05-23 Thread John Drouhard
Accidentally deleted all my procmail configuration files. Testing to see if I got 'em back correctly or not. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] How to fsck your KDE menus, and fix them in one easy lesson

2004-05-23 Thread Ayoub890
Hi Chris, If you feel this is a KDE bug then it may be a good idea to report it to KDE bugzilla. Chris wrote: I had this experience yesterday and thought I'd throw out to the list how I fixed it to. Hopefully to save someone else the agony I went through. [Deleted]

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

2004-05-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 21 May 2004 21:08:20 +0100 Drew Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, I have just got a CD/MP3 Disc player for the car.What I would like to know is if I burn a MP3 CD,using 3KB or some other burning tool,would It should play fine. I've been doing this

Re: [newbie] MP3 Burning

2004-05-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 22 May 2004 19:14:28 -0500 Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: format. I have found a Windows program that will create them, but I would like to know how to make them using Linux software. Which portable? I think you may find that mp3 cd format is just an iso9660 with a

Re: [newbie] How to fsck your KDE menus, and fix them in one easy lesson

2004-05-23 Thread robin
Chris wrote: I had this experience yesterday and thought I'd throw out to the list how I fixed it to. Hopefully to save someone else the agony I went through. I was adding an item to the KDE menu yesterday when I got interupped. I had already added the submenu. I came back to the system and

Re: [newbie] Help with on-board AC97 Audio (mdk10)

2004-05-23 Thread Frans Ketelaars
Dexter N Muir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all You have hijacked a thread, see: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/MandrakeMailingListEtiquette please :) I have an hp pavilion 713a machine, with Microstar MS-6577 Motherboard. This has an Avance AC97 audio chip on board, which works

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread David E. Fox
On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:14:18 -0400 lake-wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create Why not get the CE ISO's as many have done, and then urpmi them up

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread robin
David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:14:18 -0400 lake-wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree, create Why not get the CE ISO's as many have done, and

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 06:45, robin wrote: David E. Fox wrote: On Fri, 14 May 2004 09:14:18 -0400 lake-wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's very good advice, but for those that don't have the spare cash in their budget to join the club, you can download the i586 directory tree,

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread PM
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 23:56, Stephen Kuhn wrote: soapbox That is becoming something of an issue with me personally. Everyone else appears to be of the mindset that everyone else has a broadband connection and that they can happily urpmi everything to do this that and the other thing -

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 07:08, PM wrote: Makes sense to me - the old saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' certainly applies. Another advantage of Linux over another operating system. BTW, moved here to Cyprus 2 years ago do have broadband (after a fashion - have to log on via an

[newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-23 Thread Richard McCormick
Hi, I see options for threading messages in KMail but the messages are all un-threaded when I open it up each time. There are options under the View menu but when I select Collapse all Threads nothing happens. :-( Please let me know if there is something I am missing to get this working.

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread PM
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 00:17, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 07:08, PM wrote: Makes sense to me - the old saying 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' certainly applies. Another advantage of Linux over another operating system. BTW, moved here to Cyprus 2 years ago do have

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-23 Thread Margot
Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I see options for threading messages in KMail but the messages are all un-threaded when I open it up each time. There are options under the View menu but when I select Collapse all Threads nothing happens. :-( Please let me know if there is something I am missing to

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-23 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 23 May 2004 12:32 am, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I see options for threading messages in KMail but the messages are all un-threaded when I open it up each time. There are options under the View menu but when I select Collapse all Threads nothing happens. :-( Under the Folder

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 07:48, PM wrote: Sorry, I should have put some kind of sarcastic warning about Technologically Advanced UK, forgot We're a multi-national group. That's alright - having lived DownUnder for the past four years, I've become quite adept at understanding any reference to

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-23 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 08:03, Margot wrote: PS before you get shouted at by list-Nazis, I suggest you turn off your reply-to setting so the replies go to the list and not just to you. Is that a polite reference to JoeHill? stephen kuhn - owner == illawarra computer

Re: [newbie] arrrrggggggg

2004-05-23 Thread The Other
On Sat, 22 May 2004 16:46:34 -0400, Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -When the System Resources screen comes up during the Install, go to -the Printer Section and make sure you do a Print Test Page. This works, but if I remember correctly it does take up an additional IRQ. One of the

Re: [newbie] test

2004-05-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 23 May 2004 01:39 pm, John Drouhard wrote: Accidentally deleted all my procmail configuration files. Testing to see if I got 'em back correctly or not. Honest, I don't have them. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread g2
I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** I have not been able to locate this file. I have tried searching from rmpDrake (I

[newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread g2
I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod, that is see the files and play them, but I am not able to write to it. When I try to synch gtkpod reports: Could not open iTunesDB

[newbie] Help with on-board AC97 Audio (mdk10)

2004-05-23 Thread Dexter N Muir
Re-posting... sorry I hijacked a thread. I have an hp pavilion 713a machine, with Microstar MS-6577 Motherboard. This has an Avance AC97 audio chip on board, which works fine under the pre-loaded XP. I'm trying to migrate it to Mandrake (10.0 Community), and running into the odd obstacle or

Re: [newbie] Help with on-board AC97 Audio (mdk10)

2004-05-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 23 May 2004 06:27 pm, Dexter N Muir wrote: Re-posting... sorry I hijacked a thread. I have an hp pavilion 713a machine, with Microstar MS-6577 Motherboard. This has an Avance AC97 audio chip on board, which works fine under the pre-loaded XP. I'm trying to migrate it to

Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please install first *** I have not been able to locate this file.

Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 24 May 2004 00:46, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please

Re: [newbie] MDK 10 Official, when?

2004-05-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 23 May 2004 04:56 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip soapbox That is becoming something of an issue with me personally. Everyone else appears to be of the mindset that everyone else has a broadband connection and that they can happily urpmi everything to do this that and the other

Re: [newbie] Dead Laptop

2004-05-23 Thread Asa Rossoff
Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Sunday 23 May 2004 03:51 am, Asa Rossoff wrote: From: Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: i have a laptop here that belongs to a friend it is dead no OS i do not have a floppy for it I have set the BIOS to boot off the floppy drive. I need tom get

[newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-23 Thread Paul Kaplan
I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, I suspect it's being picked up as spam by some ISP bent on blocking

Re: [newbie] How to fsck your KDE menus, and fix them in one easy lesson

2004-05-23 Thread Chris
On Sunday 23 May 2004 01:19 pm, Ayoub890 wrote: Hi Chris, If you feel this is a KDE bug then it may be a good idea to report it to KDE bugzilla. Chris wrote: I had this experience yesterday and thought I'd throw out to the list how I fixed it to. Hopefully to save someone else the agony I

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-23 Thread Asa Rossoff
From: Chuck MATTSEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Kaplan wrote: I'm looking into a problem my high school reunion chair is having. Apparently most of his e-mails to the class are not making it to classmates with known active e-addresses. Since the e-mail has ~200 names on the To: list, I

Re: [newbie] OT: annoying spam filters

2004-05-23 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Asa Rossoff wrote: My ISP's mail server will refuse to deliver messages with more than I think 20 BCCs... so here's another simple possibility: Setup a Yahoo Mailing List, and use that. I guess it depends upon the e-mail program and how it handles BCCs ... I'm thinking that Pegasus sent them as

Re: [newbie] Threaded messages in KMail??

2004-05-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:32 am, Richard McCormick wrote: Hi, I see options for threading messages in KMail but the messages are all un-threaded when I open it up each time. There are options under the View menu but when I select Collapse all

Re: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread Marc Resnick
- Original Message - From: g2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 7:24 PM Subject: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O I am trying to get my ipod (original 5 gig first gen) to work with MDK 10.0 O. I am ussing gtkpod 7.0 I am able to READ from the ipod,

Re: [newbie] aac audio with MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-23 Thread g2
On Sunday 23 May 2004 07:46 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 24 May 2004 00:14, g2 wrote: I would like to access and listen to aac files under MDK 10.0 O. I downloaded aacplugin-1.1.4.tar.gz However it answered: configure: error: *** FAAD library (libfaad) not installed - please