Re: [newbie] 9.1 PPC configure sound ??

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:30, michael higgins wrote: Hello, folks. Great list, this is. I was hoping anyone might help me get the sound going on my g-3 macdrake machine. I did a text install, and it's going well. But I don't have any sound. I just urpmi'd mplayer and it installed as

Re: [newbie] Re: Installation help

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 17:08, YH wrote: Hello, I am installing Mandrake 9.1 with KDE to a Pentium III, graphic card S3 Trio3D/2X and ViewSonic LCD VE710b monitor. But the KDE cannot be started, it displayed a blue screen (KDE background screen), no other things can be displayed, for

Re: [newbie] Re: Installation help

2004-09-18 Thread J or M Montgomery
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:05:53 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 17:08, YH wrote: Hello, I am installing Mandrake 9.1 with KDE to a Pentium III, graphic card S3 Trio3D/2X and ViewSonic LCD VE710b monitor. But the KDE cannot be started, it displayed a

Re: [newbie] IRC Client (on a related note)

2004-09-18 Thread frankieh
SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks I currently use X-Chat to sit on an IRC channel usually 24/7 (as this machine is always on) and there are a few minor things I thought someone here could help me with :) I'd like it to be able to flash in the taskbar when someone says something. If not can

[newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that each number in the original text file can be transformed in a

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-18 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 18:30:17 -0500 Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 16 September 2004 11:18 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: Hello list Recently my test box in 10.0 Official noted new hardware on boot. With vast stupidity, I followed along and it changed my mouse driver. The

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-18 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:58:23 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 03:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore.

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-18 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 07:58:23 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 03:32, Lee Wiggers wrote: Every time I was done in it was an upgrade and that occurs regularly. Upgrade and your sound doesn't work anymore. Upgrade and your burner doesn't work anymore.

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that

Re: [newbie] IRC Client (on a related note)

2004-09-18 Thread LtCdData
i use some sounds from an irc wav set to notify me when someone speaks usually a click sound.. with others for priv msg , user online and dcc etc works for me... maybe for you ? On Saturday 18 September 2004 H:56, frankieh wrote: SME Server Admin wrote: Hi Folks I currently use X-Chat to

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
PS please lose the reply to address in your headers Thanks, Peter, for your helpful reply. I am using GMail and I am not yet very familiar with it; I hope now I have lost the reply to address in my headers. Paul Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] 10 and 10.1 mouse driver

2004-09-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:08 am, Lee Wiggers wrote: Lee, is the mouse a usb mouse? No matter, go to the MCC console and check on hardware and then mouse and redo it as a usb or PS/2mouse. And it should be OK, I have had no problems with my logitech optical scroll wheel mouse. HTH--

[newbie] OpenGroupware

2004-09-18 Thread Lanman
Has anyone had any luck getting OpenGroupware to work? I've been beating this thing to death for the last several days with no luck whatsoever. The packages are available from the Contribs list, and they install without a problem, but no amount of reading the documentation, following the

[newbie] java problem

2004-09-18 Thread Russell Butler
Hi all Anyone have some experience in setting up java connectivity? I am trying to run a java utility called varsha - supposed to enable making DVD menus. When I try to run it from a shell I get: $ java -jar varsha.jar java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/swing/JFrame at

Re: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-18 Thread Rick Kunath
On Friday 17 September 2004 06:34 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You might also want to look at a package called kvirc this is what I use and prefer. If you do a google search you should find a package for Mandrake 10. Kvirc is also my favorite IRC client. Rather than installing the Mandrake

Re: [newbie] java problem

2004-09-18 Thread Thereidos
W licie z sob, 18-09-2004, godz. 14:42, Russell Butler pisze: export JAVA_HOME = /usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/ export PATH = $JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH Now when I open a new shell in KDE I get: bash: export: `=': not a valid identifier bash: export: `/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05/':

Re: [newbie] java problem

2004-09-18 Thread Russ Kepler
On Saturday 18 September 2004 07:13 am, Thereidos wrote: There should be no spaces between variables and '='. It should look like this : export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_05 export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH That looks correct. But I would do it this way : JAVA=/usr/java/j2re1.4.2_5

RE: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-18 Thread dgordon8
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kunath Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC Client Kvirc is also my favorite IRC client. Rather than installing the Mandrake 10 rpm,

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 18 September 2004 06:51 am, Paul Smith wrote: PS please lose the reply to address in your headers Thanks, Peter, for your helpful reply. I am using GMail and I am not yet very familiar with it; I hope now I have lost the reply to address in my headers. Paul Paul: It's not

Re: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kunath Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC Client Kvirc is also my favorite IRC client. Rather than installing the

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:37:09 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not lost, but it is different; now it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should be empty, blank, nada. Carroll, Thanks for telling me that. I have selected no reply-to address in my GMail configuration, but it still adds my

Re: [newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?

2004-09-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Fri, 2004-09-17 at 13:43, JoeHill wrote: On 16 Sep 2004 01:39:02 + Eric Scott disseminated the following: Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments

Re: [newbie] Good, Intuitive developement platform?

2004-09-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Wed, 2004-09-15 at 21:39, Eric Scott wrote: Yo; Though I'm not a proficient or experience developer, I like to tinker with code every now and then and learn what I can. What are some of the best development environments can I run on my Mandrake 9.1 box that have something like the

RE: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-18 Thread Dan Gordon
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kunath Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC Client On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick I am

Re: [newbie] mutt w/ mdk (resolved)

2004-09-18 Thread jonin
On Thursday 16 September 2004 08:53 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use mutt to connect to my local IMAP server. Everything seems ok accept when I open my inbox or change to a different IMAP folder. Mutt tries to make me compose a message? The funny thing is it does not have a To: header, if

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:59 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 10:37:09 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not lost, but it is different; now it is [EMAIL PROTECTED] It should be empty, blank, nada. Carroll, Thanks for telling me that. I have selected no

[newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Dennis Myers
Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA for your recommendations. -- Dennis M. linux user

[newbie] isdn modem

2004-09-18 Thread Themis Themis
Hello everyone! My name is Themis and I am completely new to Mandrake Linux... For the time beeing I am using Mandrake Move as I want to solve some hardware issues first and then completely remove windows from my pc... I want to ask you how to configure my ISDN moden, with the drakconnect

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:33:38 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul: Oh, well, you tried. BTW, this time it came out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone on the list has figured out a way of loosing the reply-to address with GMail, please let me know it. Paul

Re: [newbie] isdn modem

2004-09-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:16 pm, Themis Themis wrote: Hello everyone! My name is Themis and I am completely new to Mandrake Linux... For the time beeing I am using Mandrake Move as I want to solve some hardware issues first and then completely remove windows from my pc... I want to

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not know what to do to make it d/l faster. Any suggestions? TIA

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At best I get 10kbs. I have checked all the settings and do not

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Margot
Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:33:38 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul: Oh, well, you tried. BTW, this time it came out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone on the list has figured out a way of loosing the reply-to address with GMail, please let me know it. Paul No idea

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 19:04:49 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone on the list has figured out a way of loosing the reply-to address with GMail, please let me know it. No idea how to permanently fix your problem, but, for the time being, why don't you put the *list* address in

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4 and 5 very quickly but the CD1-3 torrent is very slow. At

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:02:12 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Dont use torrent??? Good suggestion, but I have not found the mirrors with just the iso's and thus bittorrent is the only way at the moment. I usually have had very fast response on bittorrent. : P I don't have a

[newbie] Re: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??

2004-09-18 Thread Jonesy
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:04:24 +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:30, michael higgins wrote: I was hoping anyone might help me get the sound going on my g-3 macdrake machine. I did a text install, and it's going well. But I don't have any sound. I just urpmi'd mplayer and

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 September 2004 02:20 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 14:02:12 -0500 Dennis Myers disseminated the following: Dont use torrent??? Good suggestion, but I have not found the mirrors with just the iso's and thus bittorrent is the only way at the moment. I usually

[newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Chris
I'm currently running 9.0 and thinking about upgrading to 10.1. I noticed that in the 10.0 release there was a community and then an official release, will there be the same with 10.1? Looking at the Mdk Store I only see the 10.1 community offered in DVD format, does anyone know if it will

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 18 September 2004 01:04 pm, Margot wrote: Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 12:33:38 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul: Oh, well, you tried. BTW, this time it came out as [EMAIL PROTECTED] If someone on the list has figured out a way of loosing the

Re: [newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 18 September 2004 21:32, Chris wrote: I'm currently running 9.0 and thinking about upgrading to 10.1. I noticed that in the 10.0 release there was a community and then an official release, will there be the same with 10.1? Looking at the Mdk Store I only see the 10.1 community

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:36:02 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No idea how to permanently fix your problem, but, for the time being, why don't you put the *list* address in the reply-to field? That might work if Paul only sent email to this list, and didn't have any

Re: [newbie] questions on 10.1

2004-09-18 Thread Chris
On Saturday 18 September 2004 03:54 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: In time of course it will. At the moment 10.1 is currently only available in 'Community' either as an iso download for Mandrake Club members or as a bunch of RPMs on the public Mandrake-devel mirrors. Anyone with access to

Re: [newbie] 10.1 community on bittorrent = slow

2004-09-18 Thread Hoyt Bailey
On Saturday 18 September 2004 14:02, Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:57 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 12:35, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:16, Dennis Myers wrote: Is anyone else d/ling the 10.1 community on bt? I have discs 4

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 18 September 2004 04:54 pm, Paul Smith wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 15:36:02 -0500, Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No idea how to permanently fix your problem, but, for the time being, why don't you put the *list* address in the reply-to field? That might work

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:43:47 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul: I'm not familiar with gmail -- does it use one of those web-based mailers? Your headers don't state what mail client you're using. Carroll, To learn what is GMail, please have a look at:

Re: [newbie] IRC Client

2004-09-18 Thread SnapafunFrank
Dan Gordon wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Kunath Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2004 11:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] IRC Client On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:34 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick

[newbie] Scanning from the GIMP

2004-09-18 Thread Kaj Haulrich
I'm in the process of scanning a lot of old B/W negatives. Until now, I could just open GIMP, click File -- Acquire -- Device dialog and then xsane would open and work just fine. But after a file system corruption, I had to reinstall 10.0 official. That in itself went smoothly, took about 20

Re: [newbie] Re: Installation help

2004-09-18 Thread YH
Thanks Stephen. I don't think the graphic card is the problem as the same machine was installed RedHat 7.2 without any problems. To be more relevant, please see the following errors from last sections of $HOME/.xsession-errors: : : *** kdesktop (2294) got signal 11 Xlib: extension GLX

[newbie] 10.1 and DSL

2004-09-18 Thread machines
Has anybody here been able to get a DSL modem working with 10.1. I have done all the usual stuff in MCC that always worked in 9.2 and 10.0 but still no joy. Thanks in advance Marc Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Re: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??

2004-09-18 Thread michael higgins
Jonesy wrote: On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 18:04:24 +1000, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 13:30, michael higgins wrote: I was hoping anyone might help me get the sound going on my g-3 macdrake machine. I did a text install, and it's going well. But I don't have any sound. I just urpmi'd

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and DSL

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody here been able to get a DSL modem working with 10.1. I have done all the usual stuff in MCC that always worked in 9.2 and 10.0 but still no joy. Thanks in advance Marc Yet another reason why I always choose ethernet

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and DSL

2004-09-18 Thread Marc
On Saturday 18 September 2004 09:32 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody here been able to get a DSL modem working with 10.1. I have done all the usual stuff in MCC that always worked in 9.2 and 10.0 but still no joy. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Re: 9.1 PPC configure sound ??

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:23, michael higgins wrote: Thanks for your replies. Still, no luck. The oddest thing is that every test, but for actually using the sound, shows that everything is loaded and ready to go. Mandrake Control Center under Hardware doesn't show any sound hardware. From

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and DSL

2004-09-18 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 12:50, Marc wrote: On Saturday 18 September 2004 09:32 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-09-19 at 11:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody here been able to get a DSL modem working with 10.1. I have done all the usual stuff in MCC that always worked in 9.2 and

[newbie] Domain access wtih Samba?

2004-09-18 Thread Eric Scott
Yo; I use Samba to connect my Mandrake 9.1 box to my Windows 2000 Server box. The Wintel Server has a domain network setup... can I join this via Samba? Or maybe from some other program; I'm just familiar with Samba. It really makes no difference in efficiency or other, ask