Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs

2004-06-01 Thread rikona
Hello Rob, Saturday, May 29, 2004, 5:30:47 PM, you wrote: RB> On Saturday 29 May 2004 05:11 pm, rikona wrote: >> Hello newbie, >> >> Printing in 10.0 to samba/Win2000 printer. The first 3-4 chrs of every >> line is missing, and happens with different margin settings. Printer >> works OK on other

[newbie] SiS 7012 onboard sound with MDK10ce and a Laptop

2004-06-01 Thread Marc Hultquist
Does anyone have any sudgestions as to how I should get my sound card working ? One thing I noticed is that when I upgraded from 9.2 to 10.0 it worked(didnt work in 9.2) but then I had or was forced to do a fresh install, and well I lost the config. I have now tried for a great deal of tim

[newbie] ppp/mppe and pptp in 10.0

2004-06-01 Thread Guy Rouillier
Under 9.2 (both 32-bit and AMD64 versions), I was able to VPN into a Microsoft server at work using pppd in conjunction with pptp-linux and mppe. Unfortunately, I am not able to get this same combination working under AMD64 10.0 RC1 - haven't tried 10.0 32-bit yet. Has anyone gotten this combinat

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

2004-06-01 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:55 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: > Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package > for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without > having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. Spamassasin has prebuilt filters that can be u

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-06-01 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] asus L3000d laptop

2004-06-01 Thread Les Thomas
Ok I'll try Mandrake has called the video chip ? SIS 650 resolution 1024 X 768 I have tried various resolutoins and colour settings I'm not sure what the colour setting was as set by mandrake but I have tried all that are multiples of 8 as I read somewhere of this being a requiremnet of this video

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

2004-06-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, Thanks for the input, I forgot that I myself had started the "at boot" thing, at least it doesn't take an age (or 45 secs., whichever comes first) to boot [although any information on how to teach it to not try to start the sound (since it can't seem to detect the

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks again, I'm not going through a LAN. My computer connects to the internet directly through the modem. Michael > > > > That means that you are not intentionally going a proxy server on your > > way to the Internet? If you are on an office LAN you may still be > > going through one. I

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 05:37 pm, eric jackson wrote: > When I tried that it gave me an error message saying that only root could > unmount the DVD. > > I didn't have this problem with my old DVD. Any ideas on how I can set up > my computer so I don't have to unmount it manually? Once you have a

[newbie] how to get rpmdrake to work

2004-06-01 Thread j . gregorycroes
Hallo, I have problems with downloading rpm with rpmdrake. I have read the manual, copy paste the location of the ftp server from mandrake, put username and password and still no results. Can you guys help me out I like to download freevo and thight vnc. Thanks, regards, gregory _

Re: [newbie] boot floppys and mdk 10 on old machine

2004-06-01 Thread Asa Rossoff
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > As long as you can have both a CD-ROM and floppy drive at the same time, > you can probably make it wook by downloading > > http://www.oldfiles.streamlinetrial.co.uk/powerload/bootdisk/oldbios.exe > > This will create a boot floppy that will then bo

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

2004-06-01 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, Thanks for the input, I forgot that I myself had started the "at boot" thing, at least it doesn't take an age (or 45 secs., whichever comes first) to boot [although any information on how to teach it to not try to start the sound (since it can't seem to detect the soundcard) woul

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: "James Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounte

[newbie] What changed? mdk10 won't detect my soundcard (sb16)

2004-06-01 Thread Dexter N Muir
Hi all Something's gone awry. Mandrake 10 (Community) install on and older pII-500 (mobo has 2 ISA slots) won't detect the sb16 (actually a Vibra16). In a console, su root and sndconfig, and the test sound works, and a CD plays, but no device detected in the MCC, and no Mixer. What gives? An

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread James Hill
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 20:58, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Just a guess - automount (or equivlent) has the CD or DVD mounted, and > the drive locked.  Try using the eject command and see if that works. > If you have any programs that are accessing the drive, it will not work. If not, try right cli

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: > Hi, > > Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't > tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After > I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push > the eject button, nothing happens. > > Any i

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
eric jackson wrote: Hi, Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens. Any idea what is causing this problem? Eric

Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread eric jackson
- Original Message - From: "Kaj Haulrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] dvd drive won't exit > On Tuesday 01 June 2004 21:35, eric jackson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner.

[newbie] dvd drive won't exit

2004-06-01 Thread eric jackson
Hi,   Yesterday I bought and installed a Sony DVD burner. I haven't tried burning anything yet but I did run into a problem. After I've accessed a CD or DVD I can't get it to eject. When I push the eject button, nothing happens.   Any idea what is causing this problem?   Eric Jackson   [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Michael Tienhaara wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >>> Are you going through a proxy? >>> >> >> >> I'm not sure I know what that means. I checked the configuration for >> Konquerorunder proxy I have "connect to the Internet directl

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tienhaara wrote: Hi, Are you going through a proxy? I'm not sure I know what that means. I checked the configuration for Konquerorunder proxy I have "connect to the Internet directly" checked. Michael That means that you are not i

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-06-01 Thread Steve
Thanks, I'll take your advice and use urpme. Steve - Original Message - From: "Greg Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels > On Monday 31 May 2004 01:21 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > then use th

Re: [newbie] Did I miss anything?

2004-06-01 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 31 May 2004 03:51 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: ->Hehe, I grew up with Commodore's, and loved them. I started out with a Vic-20, ->went to the C64, then the C128. I finally ended up with a Commodore Amiga. ->All in all, I learned the most from the C64/128. I learned machine language ->e

Re: [newbie] Installing PCMCIA Wireless (Linksys A+G) on 10.0

2004-06-01 Thread Jeff
You may try using ndiswrapper and the windows drivers from the linksys site, that worked for mine. On Mon, 31 May 2004 11:53:25 -0400, Thinker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, I have a Linksys Dual Band Wireless A+G PCMCIA card that I am trying to get to work with a new installation of

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Hi, > Are you going through a proxy? I'm not sure I know what that means. I checked the configuration for Konquerorunder proxy I have "connect to the Internet directly" checked. Michael > I have a terrible time using ftp in > Konqueror while going through my Squid proxy. I have to bypas

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Tienhaara wrote: Thanks Brant, I just tried Konqueror and I was able to connect. However, I'm still getting slow connects. With Konqueror just like Kbear it's taking several minutes just to navigate between directories. In the past I've alway

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks Brant, I just tried Konqueror and I was able to connect. However, I'm still getting slow connects. With Konqueror just like Kbear it's taking several minutes just to navigate between directories. In the past I've always used FTP Voyager in Windows. With it I can connect and navigate bet

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-06-01 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 07:45 am, The Other wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2004 12:39:38 -0500, Tom Brinkman > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Use 'rpm -qa | grep -i kernel' to list installed kernels, > > then 'urpme kernel-x.x.x' to remove all of of the one(s) > > you want to remove. Example: > > >

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brandon Rife wrote: Michael Tienhaara wrote: 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 Mo

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Michael Tienhaara
Thanks ZBrandon. I'll try your suggestion. I did look at gftp. The interface is indeed obscure. Michael > > > I had the same problems when trying to connect to my FTP service which > is hosted on a WinXP box. You might try turning of passive ftp for that > site to see if that helps. As f

Re: [newbie] Big prob: partition table mess

2004-06-01 Thread Ian
On Tuesday 01 Jun 2004 08:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry to keep nagging you: > > Would it be of help to boot into the system with the rescue-option on CD1, > umount all partitions and use fdisk to rewrite the partition table without > modifying it? > > Paul Why not boot from Knop

Re: [newbie] Kbear FTP problems

2004-06-01 Thread Brandon Rife
Michael Tienhaara wrote: 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 th

Re: [newbie] Old LInux Kernels

2004-06-01 Thread The Other
On Mon, 31 May 2004 12:39:38 -0500, Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Use 'rpm -qa | grep -i kernel' to list installed kernels, then 'urpme kernel-x.x.x' to remove all of of the one(s) you want to remove. Example: So if I wanted to remove all files of 2.6.5-1.tmb, including it's lilo

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-06-01 Thread frankieh
John Richard Smith wrote: Rob Blomquist wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] asus L3000d laptop

2004-06-01 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 05:38, Les Thomas wrote: > I have mandrake 9.2 and so far have not been able to get a monitor > setting that works , any suggestions > Les Well, gosh darn, don't ya know it - that's heaps of information given for a problem to be solved. CAN you possibly be a slight bit, er,

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

2004-06-01 Thread Richard Scott
Nope, sorry. There are some links from wine about how to get IE to run under linux though, you might want to investigate and give it a go. On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 05:03, di di wrote: > Richard, is Crossover office a free software package?? > > > >From: Richard Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-T

[newbie] asus L3000d laptop

2004-06-01 Thread Les Thomas
I have mandrake 9.2 and so far have not been able to get a monitor setting that works , any suggestions Les

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-06-01 Thread John Richard Smith
Rob Blomquist wrote: 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, S