Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-05 Thread Richard Urwin
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 11:06 pm, Brian Meadows wrote: On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 23:58:06 +0100, Derek wrote: On Wednesday 02 Jun 2004 22:37, brian wrote: snip So most of those I understand, but anyone know what the numeric entries represent? Second question - 9.1 ran just fine on this PC (600

[newbie] Laptop choice

2004-06-05 Thread Johan Sch
Thanks to all that responded. Be looking into the references. -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Strange boot options

2004-06-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 11:06 pm, Brian Meadows wrote: ... Thanks for the info, but I'm still not convinced. If this constant disk access really is normal for a Linux system, I'm going to buy shares in some hard drive manufacturers! The Ext3 file system will cause disc activity every 5

Re: [newbie] Scrollwheel dead

2004-06-05 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 5 Jun 2004 10:28:00 +0200 schreef Paul: Excuse me Generic ps2 wheelmouse. Okay, got that solved too. I ran mousedrake outside X, selected the generic mouse with wheel and things are fine now. Paul -- Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem

2004-06-05 Thread James Hill
On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, Have you tried entering the full filename into google in this format? USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz if that file is anywhere on the web, google should pick it up! JRH -- Sent using Kmail, on

Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem

2004-06-05 Thread James Hill
On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: Hi! I have same problems to instoll my Dynamode USB modem on Mandrake 9.2. I now, that need file USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, for it, but I can't find it. Can You help me? Maybe You Try this page:

Re: [newbie] Problems with USB modem

2004-06-05 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 5 Jun 2004 12:18:43 +0100 schreef James Hill: On Saturday 05 Jun 2004 07:13, Sergey Boyarchik wrote: USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz, Have you tried entering the full filename into google in this format? USB-APL-1-0.1-0.1.0.0-RH-7.2.tar.gz if that file is anywhere on the web,

[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-05 Thread Russell Butler
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 09:08, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip When I change mine to OpenOffice.org 1.0, it stays that way for that session, but when I close oo, then open a new session, the default is again

[newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626

2004-06-05 Thread Russell Butler
Eric Huff wrote: Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? I searched around, but no luck. Thanks, eric Hi Eric Try right-clicking on the table cell and choose number format. You will probably find something you can change to

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWrite

2004-06-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 21:34:46 +1000 Russell Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lee Wiggers wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 13:28:11 +0200 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 09:08, Lee Wiggers wrote: snip When I change mine to OpenOffice.org 1.0, it stays that way

[newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for burning. But here we break new ground. What progs are

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so that you can get past the CSS encryption. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 and USB pens

2004-06-05 Thread Richard Gelling
On Saturday 05 June 2004 03:06, Dennis Myers wrote: On Friday 04 June 2004 07:27 am, Richard Gelling wrote: Hi I at present am running Suse 9.1 on my desktop PC. I am having a few problems with it, which I don't seem to be able to solve. So I am hoping to install Mandrake 10 Powerpack

[newbie] Dell C400 laptop

2004-06-05 Thread Mike Coppins
Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) -- Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop

2004-06-05 Thread David A. Ferguson
From: Mike Coppins Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :) Mdk10oe installed on my

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: -What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have -paid attention. I use Mplayer and Kaffeine. -I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a -movie on a laptop. sigh - -Lee During the summer, when its

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and Xine will work fine. Get the plugins from PLF though so

Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop

2004-06-05 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 14:09:07 +0100 Mike Coppins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I

[newbie] Network adaptor card

2004-06-05 Thread Marek Pawinski
Hi I have a D-Link DGE-550T network card installed. When i boot up i get an error message that eth0 is not present delaying inialization. It uses the dl2k driver. The D-LINK drivers on the web site are for the 2.4 kernel :-( Once up i have to manually run the hardware config tool each time to

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 05 June 2004 06:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: - -I am overwhelmed. I took out the old drive, with instructions -provided by the vender, plugged in the new drive, booted, ran -automatic config prog (said ok), started kde, put in a dvd, and the -movie came on the screen. Lee, if you don't

[newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626

2004-06-05 Thread Eric Huff
Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? I went to turn off autocorrection for that column and stumbled on the answer: highlite the column, rmb, then turn off number recognition. -- 1974 Valiant 4-door, 318 1999 Dakota --

Re: [newbie] Re: open office 626- becomes -626

2004-06-05 Thread Eric Huff
Anybody know which autocorrect feature is causeing 626- to convert to -626 in a table in open office writer? Try right-clicking on the table cell and choose number format. You will probably find something you can change to what you want there. It's listed as Number Recognition there,

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:06 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 09:06:08 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 05:02 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: What progs are recommended for dvd viewing? I know, I should have paid attention. Both mplayer and

[newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first boot, but not this time. I haven't got the slightest idea of

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread Dan Gordon
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just on first

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread Marek Pawinski
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound

[newbie] colors when logged in

2004-06-05 Thread xsturm
I have a question...I am using linux on two diff servers...mandrake on one and sorcery linux on another one. I have the same .bashrc file for both and I am not sure as to why the colors will work on mandrake but not on sorcery linux...any ideas? What other info do you need from me to let me

[newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound just

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always

Re: [newbie] colors when logged in

2004-06-05 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:25:54 -0500 xsturm disseminated the following: and I am not sure as to why the colors will work on mandrake but not on sorcery linux...any ideas? Perhaps, and this is just a guess, in 'Sorcery Linux' (new one to me...), there is a global bashrc which is overriding your

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread Marek Pawinski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. --

[newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work

2004-06-05 Thread robi
Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I would thank if sombody could help robi

[newbie] Laptop choice - REPORT

2004-06-05 Thread Johan Sch
Hi, Here are some snippets from various mail lists that I asked for a laptop choice. I had good responses. Trust this may be of help to some.. ** I'm dual-booting win XP and various Linux distros using FAT32, getting online and burning CDs on a Dell Inspiron 8500 and am very happy with it.

Re: [newbie] Acrobat weblinks and Linux

2004-06-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Erylon Hines wrote: Is there a way to configure Mozilla to open a link embedded in a *.pdf. If I click on such a link I get a pop-up box offering to configure my browser, but when I point to the mozilla executable I get another box that says unsupported browser and telling me to install a

Re: [newbie] Laptop choice

2004-06-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Acer 1350, with 9.2, can't get the winmodem to work, because I don't have the kernel source. Depending on the winmodem, you may not need the kernel source. There are RPMs out with the modules compiled for different kernels, as well as modules that are set up to work

Re: [newbie] Lost partition - invaluable data - pls help!

2004-06-05 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi guys, I've just got a bad night. I accidentally fdisked my hdd partitions containing years of data (lots of hot japanese, awesome techrepublic articles, exotic downloaded programs, saved games, etc), in all about 38GB. Is

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Todd Slater
On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 09:02:58AM +, Lee Wiggers wrote: I'm doing this but still wonder why anyone would want to watch a movie on a laptop. sigh It's for if you don't want to pay $7.95 for the lame hotel porn. Todd -- Zinn-Chomsky 2004

Re: [newbie] Lost partition - invaluable data - pls help!

2004-06-05 Thread Paul
Fajar Priyanto wrote: I've just got a bad night. I accidentally fdisked my hdd partitions containing years of data (lots of hot japanese, awesome techrepublic articles, exotic downloaded programs, saved games, etc), in all about 38GB. Is there any way I can recover the partition, or at least

Re: [newbie] Re: [Newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0

[newbie] bugy as comunity

2004-06-05 Thread robi
Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to another distro. hello robi

Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity

2004-06-05 Thread Brant Fitzsimmons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to another

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked up

Re: [newbie] Keys not working

2004-06-05 Thread SME Admin
On Friday 04 Jun 2004 19:08, chris wrote: On Thursday 03 June 2004 23:30, SME Admin wrote: On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 19:34, chris wrote: I recently installed 10.0 Official, and I now find that the Delete key often doesn't work, and neither does the auto-repeat function. I cannot

[newbie] ghostscript error

2004-06-05 Thread Russell W. Behne
I just installed MDK 10.0 and have an anoying problem. Several programs can't print, aparently due to an error in ghostscript. rpm -q reports that the current version installed is ghostscript-7.07-14mdk. Here's what happens when I try to start ghostscript from the command line: $ ghostscript

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 13:14:15 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1. How I would think that emu10k1 is the proper one. In my experience, 90% of the time, it picked

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread teilhk
On Saturday 05 June 2004 19:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version

Re: [newbie] Dell C400 laptop

2004-06-05 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 06 Jun 2004 01:09, Mike Coppins wrote: Has anyone here tried installing Mandrake 10 on a Dell C400 laptop, or a similar Dell laptop? I'm considering giving it a try, but as my efforts to install a *NIX variant on my laptop in the past have always failed, I thought I'd ask first :)

Re: [newbie] Acrobat weblinks and Linux

2004-06-05 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:28 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: | Erylon Hines wrote: | Is there a way to configure Mozilla to open a link embedded in a *.pdf. | If I click on such a link I get a pop-up box offering to configure my | browser, but when I point to the mozilla executable I get

Re: [newbie] Network adaptor card

2004-06-05 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 00:09, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I have a D-Link DGE-550T network card installed. When i boot up i get an error message that eth0 is not present delaying inialization. It uses the dl2k driver. The D-LINK drivers on the web site are for the 2.4 kernel :-( Once up i

Re: [newbie] dvd/cdrw

2004-06-05 Thread Ariestao1
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 07:02 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Ok, flame if you want.I haven't rtfm'ed. I'm switching my cdrom in the laptop, Dell 1100 w/ 10.0mdk this afternoon to a dvd/cdrw. I have every confidence that config will go aces. XCDroast has worked well for me in 9.2 for

Re: [newbie] Sound

2004-06-05 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 5 Jun 2004 18:50:31 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Little problem is, I haven't got the slightest idea where to find draksound. Also, I do not compute mcc. However I will keep searching. I didn't draksound is part of drakxtools-newt rpm. mcc is part of drakconf. urpmf

Re: [newbie] bugy as comunity

2004-06-05 Thread John Wilson
On June 5, 2004 02:32 pm, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: robi wrote: Same problems arising with off as with comunity, mozilla firefox does not start. Konqueror frozes on some webpages somtimes whole kde hangs. So i dont know what a hell were developers doing? I am really thinking to switch to

Re: [newbie] Microsoft Brazil Decries Government Use of Linux

2004-06-05 Thread John Wilson
On June 4, 2004 04:19 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 06:31, Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello! I'm laughing my head off here... Here's why: Microsoft Brasil's president, Emilio Umeoka, said that ideology led Brazil's government astray when it decided to adopt Linux's free

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work

2004-06-05 Thread John Wilson
On June 5, 2004 11:13 am, robi wrote: Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I would thank if sombody could help

[newbie] Modem detected but not supported

2004-06-05 Thread OOzy
Gurus, I have just installed LM9.2. Everything was flawless except my modem. It was detected but not support. My modem is Conexant (HCF). Can Anyone show me where can I find the driver and how to install it. Best Regards.