Re: [newbie] Installing tar for winmodem

2004-05-31 Thread Flemming
I have mandrake 9.2, p4 1024mb ram, WinFast A180 DDR. I also have a Winmodem installed which is not recognised by the program. I downloaded a TAR driver. How do I instaal? Thank you Flemming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin (More Info)

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Have had no problems with sound throughout the day, receiving system notifications, listening to streaming audio off and on, etc. Just tried opening up xmms via Streamtuner, and received a crash notification: The application Sounderserver (artsd) crashed and caused

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
I beliee that I can help or at point you in the right direction. First, it sounds to me as if you are using the oss driver for your sound card. That is ok but IMHO the alsa version is far superior. You can verify which driver you use by running harddrake from the control center, tab to sound card

[newbie] Re: Installing tar for winmodem

2004-05-31 Thread Flemming
I have mandrake 9.2, p4 1024mb ram, WinFast A180 DDR. I also have a Winmodem installed which is not recognised by Mandrake. I downloaded a TAR driver. How do I install? Thank you Flemming Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing tar for winmodem

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
First preview in archiver if possible and read "README" file or the "Install" file. Then you tarball it. Here are a few steps. 1. open a terminal and log on as root. 2. cd /usr/share (unless you are directed other wise in README file) 3. extract tarball to /usr/share with this command:

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Thomas Wilkowski wrote: I beliee that I can help or at point you in the right direction. First, it sounds to me as if you are using the oss driver for your sound card. That is ok but IMHO the alsa version is far superior. You can verify which driver you use by running harddrake from the

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing tar for winmodem

2004-05-31 Thread robin
Flemming wrote: I have mandrake 9.2, p4 1024mb ram, WinFast A180 DDR. I also have a Winmodem installed which is not recognised by Mandrake. I downloaded a TAR driver. How do I install? With any tatball the procedure is: 1. Open a terminal. 2. Change directory to where the tarball is e.g. cd

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
Very odd. try this: disable sound systen in kde control reconfigure the knotify script: true/true/true reverify that alsa is up across the board enable the sound system and see what you get. If it is still funky create a new user, something like chuck2. Log out and than log back on as chuck2.

Re: [newbie] No sound/artsd crash - don't know where to begin

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Thomas Wilkowski wrote: Very odd. Indeed. And before anyone wastes any more time on this on my account, I'm looking into the possibility that this is the result of an errant update today ... scanning Bugzilla, I see another user with a similar problem and backtrace. So, if that's the case, my

Re: [newbie] Re: Installing tar for winmodem

2004-05-31 Thread Thomas Wilkowski
First preview in archiver if possible and read "README" file or the "Install" file. Then you tarball it. Here are a few steps. 1. open a terminal and log on as root. 2. cd /usr/share (unless you are directed other wise in README file) 3. extract tarball to /usr/share with this command:

[newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Steve
How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and want to clear out as much old stuff as possible. Thanks, Steve

Re: [newbie] web based database program

2004-05-31 Thread Eric Huff
What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah blah blah. It will be accessed on the web (or

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 02:51, Steve wrote: How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and want to clear out as much old stuff as possible. Thanks, Steve Just delete

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Steve
Yes I know which ones I do not want but, don't know where they are located. It is just one file per kernel? Steve - Original Message - From: Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Eric Huff
Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? edit /etc/lilo.conf -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread John Richard Smith
Steve wrote: How do you get rid of old kernels once you have loaded a new one and determine it works? Also how do you remove old versions from the LILO Screen? I have limited space and want to clear out as much old stuff as possible. Thanks, Steve Couldn't be easier,go to boot directory and,

[newbie] Mandrake 10.0 hardware problems.

2004-05-31 Thread John Rathmann
Hello! I have a good install of Mandrake 10.0 on my Athlon 1.33Ghz Thunderbird PC, using LILO to dual-boot to Win ME, and a logical Linux Ext2 partition of 8GB with a 1024MB swapfile. Other info on my PC: I really need some help - My problem is that I am confused by the hardware setup which is

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Monday 31 May 2004 12:07 pm, Steve wrote: Yes I know which ones I do not want but, don't know where they are located. It is just one file per kernel? No, an just don't delete the kernel. You'll still be stuck with many files, as in /lib/modules/kernel version Use 'rpm -qa | grep -i

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-31 Thread Jon Jennings
frankieh wrote: Also of interest to me is the SATA raid as I'd like to setup future servers to use striping/mirroring, but only if its software transparent. (So I mean is the RAID provided by these boards the same as pluggin in a SCSI raid controller such that linux will then see the drives as

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out to use the onboard LAN, Soundcard, and hardware

Re: [newbie] kde stalls

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 31 May 2004 06:28 am, Larry Clayton wrote: Using Mandrake 10 my KDE starts loading, giving me a 28, 57, 71, and 85 where it simply stalls. If I click the mouse, I get an empty screen (with the moon and stars) in the lower right hand corner. Tell us more, what do 28, 57, 71, and 85

[newbie] Updated rpms for 10.0

2004-05-31 Thread Charles A Edwards
Newly updated rpms for 10.0 gaim-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm gaim-encrypt-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm gaim-festival-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm gaim-perl-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm gaim-tcl-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm libgaim-remote0-devel-0.78-1.2mdk.i586.rpm libxmms1-1.2.10-0.1mdk.i586.rpm

[newbie] Backing Up MDK 10.0 Partition

2004-05-31 Thread John Rathmann
Can someone please tell me which package(s) are for backing up the Mandrake 10.0 ext2 partition (mirror image), and also for restoringit, if needed? In Windows ME, I use PowerQuest's Drive Image, which works extremely well, and I am looking for a good match to do the same thing under Linux.

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Steve
Thank you. You have been a great help! Steve - Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels On Monday 31 May 2004 12:07 pm, Steve wrote: Yes I know which ones I do not want

[newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Lanman
Sorry I haven't been around folks. My DNS server somehow managed to get seriously borked - Big Time! I decided to take a few days to try some other solutions - other than Mandrake that is. What a mistake! The whole thing turned into a nightmare. Either I found something that installed and

[newbie] Just a test

2004-05-31 Thread Lanman
Please ignore. Just a test. 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] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 31 May 2004 20:36, Lanman wrote: Sorry I haven't been around folks. My DNS server somehow managed to get seriously borked - Big Time! I decided to take a few days to try some other solutions - other than Mandrake that is. What a mistake! The whole thing turned into a nightmare.

Re: [newbie] web based database program

2004-05-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Eric Huff wrote: What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah blah blah. It will be accessed on the web

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 31 May 2004 20:36, Lanman wrote: So,What have I missed? Welcome home, Lanman. Please tell us where you've been : CP/M ? , DOS ? , Windows ? , OS/2 ? , Mac ? , AmigaOS ? . -- Just in case you are contagious. I heard he pulled his VIC-20 out of the closet and

[newbie]

2004-05-31 Thread j . gregorycroes
Please, ingnore the email. It was just a test. regards, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] web based database program

2004-05-31 Thread Eric Huff
You can access an MySQL database from several programming languages. If you want the program to run on all 3 platforms, you may want to write it in Pearl. There are also modules to let you access MySQL from other programs. There is a lot of documation on using it, so you may want to do

Re: [newbie] Backing Up MDK 10.0 Partition

2004-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 31 May 2004 19:28, John Rathmann wrote: Can someone please tell me which package(s) are for backing up the Mandrake 10.0 ext2 partition (mirror image), and also for restoring it, if needed? In Windows ME, I use PowerQuest's Drive Image, which works extremely well, and I am looking

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread frankieh
Chuck MATTSEN wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 31 May 2004 20:36, Lanman wrote: So,What have I missed? Welcome home, Lanman. Please tell us where you've been : CP/M ? , DOS ? , Windows ? , OS/2 ? , Mac ? , AmigaOS ? . -- Just in case you are contagious. I heard he pulled his VIC-20 out

Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-31 Thread di di
Richard, is Crossover office a free software package?? From: Richard Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:00:23 +0930 Crossover office has been suggested to run IE, to

Re: [newbie]

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Coppins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, ingnore the email. It was just a test. A test for us to see whether we could ignore this mail? -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mikeymike.org.uk/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

[OT] Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Chuck MATTSEN
frankieh wrote: Hey, don't knock the Vic-20, I loved my old commodore, one of the first ever PC's I had.. Not knocking it at all ... just waxing a tad nostaligic. :-) It still amazes me how much fun I had with mine way back when (yes, even spending hour after hour typing in page after page of

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Monday 31 May 2004 02:36 pm, frankieh wrote: Hey, don't knock the Vic-20, I loved my old commodore, one of the first ever PC's I had.. followed by a C64, I honed my BASIC skills on that puppy.. Ironically, its been so long, that the only thing I remember is: 10 print Franki rulez at BASIC

Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer

2004-05-31 Thread PM
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:33, di di wrote: Richard, is Crossover office a free software package?? From: Richard Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [toread] [newbie] application on internet explorer Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 15:00:23 +0930

Re: [newbie]

2004-05-31 Thread PM
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 22:45, Mike Coppins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, ingnore the email. It was just a test. A test for us to see whether we could ignore this mail? What mail? I didn't get a mail -- Paul M. _ In the beginning, man created god.

[newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].

2004-05-31 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I've just installed 10.0 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 4150 that I got gratis (i.e., as is, no manuals etc.). It has an Ethernet/modem card Identified as Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 on PCI a bus 2:0:0. Under unknowns there is Cardbus Ethernet + 56Kmodem: PCI 2:0:1. Now, I can get

[newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-05-31 Thread linux
Hi all, I rebooted the linux box this evening, for the sound had gone. At loading linux, I saw tons of messages ldm_validat_partition_table: disk read failed. After going into rescue with CD 1 (mdk 9.1 here), I could mount all partitions, but validating the partition table with fdisk showed that

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-05-31 Thread Lanman
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Monday 31 May 2004 20:36, Lanman wrote: Sorry I haven't been around folks. My DNS server somehow managed to get seriously borked - Big Time! I decided to take a few days to try some other solutions - other than Mandrake that is. What a mistake! The whole thing turned into a

Re: [newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].

2004-05-31 Thread Derek Jennings
On Monday 31 May 2004 21:26, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I've just installed 10.0 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 4150 that I got gratis (i.e., as is, no manuals etc.). It has an Ethernet/modem card Identified as Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 on PCI a bus 2:0:0. Under unknowns there

Re: [newbie] 10.0 and laptop modem [soundcard].

2004-05-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I've just installed 10.0 on a Hewlett Packard OmniBook 4150 that I got gratis (i.e., as is, no manuals etc.). It has an Ethernet/modem card Identified as Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 on PCI a bus 2:0:0. Under unknowns there is Cardbus Ethernet + 56Kmodem: PCI

[newbie] fonts for md10

2004-05-31 Thread John
Hello I am having problems with the fonts looking faded. The message below is from the user log. I have a nvidia graphics card and installed the driver from nvidia. I have tried several differant combinations of resolution and monitor settings but I seem to be making it worse. Would appreciate

Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-05-31 Thread Asa Rossoff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I rebooted the linux box this evening, for the sound had gone. At loading linux, I saw tons of messages ldm_validat_partition_table: disk read failed. After going into rescue with CD 1 (mdk 9.1 here), I could mount all partitions, but validating the

Re: [newbie] web based database program

2004-05-31 Thread Adolfo Bello
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 12:58, Eric Huff wrote: What are your favorites for web based database programs? I have a project where i will have many items, each with a bunch of keywords, and i need to be able to search for all items containing a keyword, sort them by other keywords, blah

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-31 Thread Aidan Holmes
Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I am in the same boat - except I bring my customer's boxen in here to the lab and connect them to the network. I've been using ClamScan and F-Prot - both free - both updatable. Work like a charm. Clamscan: www.clamav.net F-Prot: www.f-prot.com stephen kuhn - owner That

Re: [newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections

2004-05-31 Thread Aidan Holmes
et wrote: yes, of course, this is GNU-linux, and GNU-linux really does work. I think I miss understood... you want to do this without using the telphone company at all this (and I ain't never considered it before, since a serial to serial cable would do the a much faster transer, as would a

Re: [newbie] fonts for md10

2004-05-31 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 31 May 2004 04:46 pm, John wrote: Hello I am having problems with the fonts looking faded. The message below is from the user log. I have a nvidia graphics card and installed the driver from nvidia. I have tried several differant combinations of resolution and monitor settings but I

[newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-05-31 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Hi, I tried to use Kbear for the first. I have no problem connecting to a website. After connecting, I see that the login and password was accepted followed by this message: 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode. But, after I connect I can see no directories and files at the website. I also see the

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-05-31 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 10:45, Aidan Holmes wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: Mate, I am in the same boat - except I bring my customer's boxen in here to the lab and connect them to the network. I've been using ClamScan and F-Prot - both free - both updatable. Work like a charm. Clamscan:

[newbie] boot floppys and mdk 10 on old machine

2004-05-31 Thread evolt
I am going to be installing mandrake on an old machine (no bootable cdrom) at work tomorrow. Problem: left the mandrake 10 (rc1) disks there. Can I make a boot floppy from another version (say 10 beta 2, or grab the one from the mirror for 10 final)? No high speed internet here so I dont want

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-05-31 Thread Greg Meyer
On Monday 31 May 2004 01:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: then use the rm command on all the set of files that end in the kernel version you wish to remove. Then you left 20 MB of files in /lib/modules that are no longer necessary. Best way if you installed the lernels from rpms, is to use

Re: [newbie] recieving 56K dial up connections

2004-05-31 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aidan Holmes wrote: et wrote: yes, of course, this is GNU-linux, and GNU-linux really does work. I think I miss understood... you want to do this without using the telphone company at all this (and I ain't never considered it before, since a serial to serial cable would do the a much faster

Re: [newbie] apple ipod and MDK 10.0 O

2004-05-31 Thread g2
On Sunday 23 May 2004 11:59 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: - 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.

Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-05-31 Thread linux
There is a utility called TestDisk that can analyze and repear disk partitions tables: http://www.cgsecurity.org/index.html?testdisk.html Hi Asa, thanks for the tip. I'll check it out. Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from