Re: [newbie] External Drive

2004-08-29 Thread Johan Sch
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 22:17:01 -0500 Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to use a USB external drive in ML 10.0 My hopes were that ML would detect it and add a icon to my desktop like my card reader did. I was wrong, it was not that simple. Anyone have any ideas about how to get a

Re: [newbie] permission changes

2004-08-29 Thread Johan Sch
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:49:17 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 29 August 2004 01:32, john wrote: Hello After reinstalling md10, several folders now show locked. Security settings are standard and I 'm not sure what happened to change these folders. Any advice on how

Re: [newbie] mp3

2004-08-29 Thread András Keszei
On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 06:08, David Wallis wrote: Hi Is it possible with Mandrake 10 and KDE to run a Creative Model PA-20 digital MP3Player Cheers David Hi David, Have one of them things and you won't be able to breathe life into it under linux. It has a proprietary file system, and won't

Re: [newbie] Problem with MandrakeUpdate

2004-08-29 Thread John Wilson
On August 28, 2004 12:43 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them. Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are updated at startup, which is not very convenient, specially if they are already updated. Any ideas to solve

Re: [newbie] webmin upgrade resets https-access??

2004-08-29 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
After upgrading webmin to the actual version via webmin.com the hosts are not accessible via https anymore?? Not very safe, I guess... ;-) Having lived in Webmin for the past four years, I have never seen that with the exception of compiling from source; have you restarted the I just

Re: [newbie] host name changes (sometimes...?)

2004-08-29 Thread Harald T ZIPKO
I am still not happy with my mdk-boxes for they sometimes chnange their hostnames provided during install process to something like '172' or similar (=eg that's just the beginning of the internal LAN adresses when the nic gets network information via dhcp). No matter how I change

Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Greg Meyer wrote: I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied. Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas? That error was coming up on boxes running cooker when Mandrake switched the

Re: [newbie] Enlarging Mandrake's partition

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: Look, you say your rarely use it; what DO you use it for? Best bet would be to defrag it, then use either diskdrake or Partition Magic to resize it; else you could whack another drive in there and balance out your stuff... Unfortunately, I have to use MS Windows for

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-29 Thread Poogle
On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 13:26, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 12:50, Hoyt Bailey wrote: snip That is one good reason there are others. Have you considered Win4linux or Crossover Office? /snip Win4Linux runs Win98 only, not XP. Crossover doesn't list other applications

Re: [newbie] GZIP/GUNZIP

2004-08-29 Thread Thereidos
W licie z sob, 28-08-2004, godz. 20:17, Steve pisze: snip Thanks, Steve Please read etiquette and don't post in HTML. -- Cezary 'Thereidos' Morga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User No. 362185 http://counter.li.org GG# 169903 ICQ# 328-700-565 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] rekall

2004-08-29 Thread jose usoz
It seems the libxbsql is not present. Do you know the RPM for this file? The specific missing depend, devel(libxbsql), is provided by libxbsql0-devel-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm. You will also need libxbsql0-0.11-3mdk.i586.rpm. Since you were using urpmi both should have been pulled-in if you

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-29 Thread Richard Urwin
On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 9:20 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 02:41 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:23:01, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure this one ought to keep the conversation going for a while.

Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty

2004-08-29 Thread Margot
Paul Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied. Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas? That error was coming up on boxes running cooker when

Re: [newbie] Problem with MandrakeUpdate

2004-08-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 August 2004 08:45, John Wilson wrote: On August 28, 2004 12:43 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I removed all the media and, afterwards, I added all of them. Surprisingly, now, whenever I run MandrakeUpdate, all hdlists are updated at startup, which is not very convenient,

Re: [newbie] host name changes (sometimes...?)

2004-08-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Sunday 29 August 2004 09:23, Harald T ZIPKO wrote: I am still not happy with my mdk-boxes for they sometimes chnange their hostnames provided during install process to something like '172' or similar (=eg that's just the beginning of the internal LAN adresses when the nic gets

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:13, Poogle wrote: snip Out of curiosity some time ago I looked at Derive. I got version 5 running using Crossover Office. I don't recall how well it ran as having got it to run my curiosity moved on to other things. You can d/l a trial version of Crossover Office

Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 03:50, Paul Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit tries to access to several tty, but the permission is denied. Afterwards, still during booting, IPMI fails. Any ideas? That error was

[newbie] Easy to search archives?

2004-08-29 Thread linuxnbe
Hi all Is there anywhere I can get an easy to search archive of this and the expert mailing list - ie a single list of all newbie (or expert) emails. I'm sure some of the questions I have have been asked before but to look through he Mandrake list split into each month takes forever and also

Re: [newbie] webmin upgrade resets https-access??

2004-08-29 Thread flesh.99
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:05:12 +0200, Harald T ZIPKO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After upgrading webmin to the actual version via webmin.com the hosts are not accessible via https anymore?? Not very safe, I guess... ;-) Having lived in Webmin for the past four years, I have never seen that

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 06:30, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Sunday 29 August 2004 11:13, Poogle wrote: snip Out of curiosity some time ago I looked at Derive. I got version 5 running using Crossover Office. I don't recall how well it ran as having got it to run my curiosity moved on to

Re: [newbie] Easy to search archives?

2004-08-29 Thread Chris
On Sunday 29 August 2004 07:40 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Is there anywhere I can get an easy to search archive of this and the expert mailing list - ie a single list of all newbie (or expert) emails. I'm sure some of the questions I have have been asked before but to look

[newbie] Reinstall problems

2004-08-29 Thread john
Thanks for the help on permissions earlier. There are a couple more issues. I have to start firefox and thunderbird from root on reinstall of md10. Previously I started from root and they were ok on the 2nd start, but not this time. Also Thunderbird is not picking up on the settings in the

[newbie] Reinstall problems

2004-08-29 Thread john
Thanks for the help on permissions earlier. There are a couple more issues. I have to start firefox and thunderbird from root on reinstall of md10. Previously I started from root and they were ok on the 2nd start, but not this time. Also Thunderbird is not picking up on the settings in the home

Re: [newbie] Easy to search archives?

2004-08-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 29 August 2004 14:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all Is there anywhere I can get an easy to search archive of this and the expert mailing list - ie a single list of all newbie (or expert) emails. I'm sure some of the questions I have have been asked before but to look through

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-29 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 29 August 2004 05:28 am, Richard Urwin wrote: On Saturday 28 Aug 2004 9:20 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 02:41 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 28 August 2004 13:23:01, Greg Meyer wrote: I figure

Re: [newbie] Easy to search archives?

2004-08-29 Thread linuxnbe
Thanks Kaj and Chris those are both what I was looking for and are in fact great resources outside these two mailing list. Robert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-29 Thread Vincent Voois
John Richard Smith wrote: Heck, Things have sunk low. HP doesn't even give you their own backup disks as an emergency recovery any more. I mean, not unnaturally the average user , ain't gonna think of creating their own image backups, the moment they first plug the PC in and boot up. So

Re: [newbie] OT - Request for advice on Windows XP

2004-08-29 Thread Vincent Voois
Hoyt Bailey wrote: Would you consider it paranoid to run if a 6'6 250lb person told you that he was going to knock you out of the park and he was holding a baseball bat? HEhehehehehehe. U just pull his cap across his face, kick his nutts on the floor and break his baseballbat on his own

[newbie] dvd autoplay non totem

2004-08-29 Thread Todd Slater
Is there a way to have dvd's autoplay without using totem? I tried to get mplayer to be the default by going to config kde somethingorother file associations, mp* and moved mplayer up above totem. When I insert a dvd now it doesn't autoplay. Yes, this is kde on mdk10.0, for a friend. Thanks,

Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty

2004-08-29 Thread Angus Auld
- Original Message - From: Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:35:37 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Problem with /dev/tty Paul Smith wrote: Greg Meyer wrote: I have done some updates on my computer and now, at start-up, the script rc.sysinit

[newbie] FS Problem?

2004-08-29 Thread David Johnson
I had a power problem at the house the other day and now, at boot up my ML10.0 machine comes up with tons of errors and every so often while the machine is running I see messages such as MARK : [2004-08-29T10:54:12-0700] msg=-- TIMESTAMP -- I have a feeling this is an indication of a

Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving

2004-08-29 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:53:03 -0500 Hoyt Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 28 August 2004 09:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop

[newbie] GPS and Linux

2004-08-29 Thread Aron Smith
I just bought a new toy a Magellan Sport Trak Gps unit has anyone used these with 'nix to DL the maps? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Configure Firewire External Enclosure with HD Maxtor 200 Go inside

2004-08-29 Thread centaure domain
Hi all, Anyone knows where i can find an How-to or any tutorial explaining how to configure a Firewire External Enclosure (with a Maxtor 200 Go HD inside) with my Mandrake 9.2 ? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mozilla misbehaving

2004-08-29 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:09:33 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 00:37, Len Lawrence wrote: I have just hit an old problem with mozilla, having networked my laptop at last (10 months since receipt). The same version of mozilla (1.4) runs on my desktop with

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 17:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Sunday 29 August 2004 18:14, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:47, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [newbie] Existential Linux Question

2004-08-29 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 30 August 2004 00:35, Richard Urwin wrote: Sorry if I jumped down your throat. I'm following this SCO et al debacle fairly closely, and you hit a trigger phrase. (as you know, Ken Brown, [probably bank-rolled by MS,] has accused Linus of copying MINIX when creating Linux. That would

Re: [newbie] [OT] sylpheed-claws gtk2 cvs

2004-08-29 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 18:13:12 -0500 John Drouhard wrote: The *only* thing wrong with it at this point is that it doesn't compile with pgpmime or gnupg correctly. You need to use libgpgme03_6-devel Charles -- Small is beautiful. -- Schumacher's Dictum

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G 2,6G 40% /

Re: [newbie] Question about Linux partition

2004-08-29 Thread Paul Smith
Hoyt Bailey wrote: I have 12GB of my hard disk assigned to Mandrake. However, the command df -h produces the following: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 4,5G 1,7G 2,6G 40% / /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

[newbie] Multiple ML-10 woes!

2004-08-29 Thread Langsley T Russell
Hi all. Today I installed the download version of MDK-10 I had been running 9.2 with no problems but thought I'd try the upgrade to get later versions of everything. Boy was that a mistake!! Everything is dramatically slower from boot up to surfing the web. KMail crashes every time I click

[newbie] Star Wars Battlefront port possibility? Hmm...!

2004-08-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Star Wars: Battlefront Port? - posted by Crusader - Sunday Aug 29 08:03:42 2004 linuX-gamers.net pointed out this interview that StarWars-BATTLEFRONT.de conducted with Pandemic Studios concerning their upcoming multiplayer-oriented multi-platform shooter Star Wars: Battlefront. The question of

[newbie] Re: mp3

2004-08-29 Thread András Keszei
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 05:37, David Wallis wrote: Morning Andras Many thanks your reply. I am in the same boat Win to run a couple of bits of hardware BTW is there a pocket sized mp3 player that *is* Linux computable Cheers David --- [E-mail scanned by doggy.com.au for viruses with Declude

Re: [newbie] Multiple ML-10 woes!

2004-08-29 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 12:41, Langsley T Russell wrote: Hi all. Today I installed the download version of MDK-10 I had been running 9.2 with no problems but thought I'd try the upgrade to get later versions of everything. Boy was that a mistake!! Everything is dramatically slower from

[newbie] test

2004-08-29 Thread mike
test Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-29 Thread mike
Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Friday 27 August 2004 08:58, Thereidos wrote: W licie z pi, 27-08-2004, godz. 14:44, Hoyt Bailey pisze: On Friday 27 August 2004 00:27, Rob Blomquist wrote: snip BTW, I believe that the path /mkdev/mkdev.sh is meant to be within the source code folder, so that a

[newbie] USB cardreader problems

2004-08-29 Thread John Rye
This message is crossposted. Opsys: Mandrake 10.0 Official Here's the situation: We have a Kodak DC3200 digital camera which ises a conventional compactflash module for storage. Because we cannot connect the camera directly to computer, there seems to be now way of reading from the camera.