Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-22 Thread Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 05:02, Kaj Haulrich wrote: [...snip] Change into the directory where your downloaded file resides, and type : md5sum firefox-1.0PR-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz This should produce a checksum : eaed8df10e722baba0426ed310cbf7d7 If your is not exactly like

[newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Alan
Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e directories i can with any user write/read these partitions. I cannot however use a program called azureus to download to these partitions as it give me a file

[newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread Bela Markus
Hi, this is too early for 10.1, but is it possible or is it worst to migrate from the Community Edition to the Official of the same versions? What is the experoence with 10.0? Regards... Bela Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Adding media to MCC Media Manager.

2004-09-22 Thread Simon Utley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 21 Sep 2004 21:14, Derek Jennings wrote: Use urpmi.addmedia  --distrib cdrom removable:///mnt/cdrom with CD1 in the drive. BTW: Do you really want your hostname to be your MAC address? Or is it getting set to that by your ISP against

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Julius Suarez
Hmm, kinda strange, I have same setup before and I can point azureus to download to these fat32 partitions, The only thing I remember with their permissions is that - they all have 777. On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:06:40 +0200, Alan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:17, Merlin Zener wrote: snip -replies within I'll paste the results of locateing those filenames to the end of this email. As far as I can tell, the most obvious problems are: my glibc is 2.1.3 or 2.1.9, not 2.2.4 fontconfig seems to be missing... That's

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Vincent Voois
How about trying chmod +2666 /windows/* -R And then try azureus again? Alan wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e directories i can with any user write/read these partitions. I cannot however use a

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:31, Vincent Voois wrote: How about trying chmod +2666 /windows/* -R And then try azureus again? Alan wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e directories i

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Alan
The line in my fstab file reads: /dev/hdg1 /windows/e vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:50:35 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:31, Vincent Voois wrote: How about trying chmod +2666 /windows/* -R And then

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-22 Thread Merlin Zener
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:46, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 08:17, Merlin Zener wrote: snip -replies within fontconfig seems to be missing... That's definitely a problem. [...snip again] So should I try and find, download and install fontconfig from somewhere?

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread Ryan Steffes
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 10:23:17 +0200, Bela Markus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, this is too early for 10.1, but is it possible or is it worst to migrate from the Community Edition to the Official of the same versions? What is the experoence with 10.0? Regards... Bela I can't tell you

Re: [newbie] Mozilla crashing sometimes...

2004-09-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 14:29, Merlin Zener wrote: snip thanks once again for all your comments and advice, Kaj. I might try to get time to go to Bangkok on Sunday. I know I can get as many copies of XP as I like for 80 baht a CD there, I don't know if they sell any Mandrake stuff...

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
Well, seems this only got to Ryan, so I'll re-post : On Wednesday 22 September 2004 15:33, Ryan Steffes wrote: it looks like your mail client may have replied only to me and not to the list. Sorry, it's a hazard of using Gmail for lists that I can't disable the REPLY-TO On Wed, 22 Sep 2004

[newbie] What happened to the boot loader options

2004-09-22 Thread Marc
In ML 9.x and before there used to be several options for how and where t6o install the bootloader. First sector of the hard drive, to a floppy etc. I just found that on 10.0.2 those options seem to br gone and I need them very badly for a problem installation that I am working on. Is there

[newbie] Shrinking an ext3 partition

2004-09-22 Thread Ryan Steffes
I think I have the steps down, but I wanted to verify before I tried. I've got a large hard drive (hdc) that I'm going to be moving to another system soon. It's currently mounted as /home on my system and is one large partition. It's about half full right now. What I'd like to do is resize it

Re: [newbie] commerical CD

2004-09-22 Thread Warly
Paul Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone provide a (link to a) list of rpms on 10.1CE CD5, the commercial rpms? http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/distro/10.1-cty-cd.cd -- Warly Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:42, Graham Watkins wrote: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? Because he's there? Carry on like this and he may not be. -- Graham Watkins Don't be lucid and ironic; people will turn this against you to show that you aren't a nice person. -

[newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor

2004-09-22 Thread Azrael
I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions as choices. How can I set it so I am useing

Re: [newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor

2004-09-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 20:03, Azrael wrote: I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions

Re: [newbie] 17inch Widescreen TFT Monitor

2004-09-22 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 19:03, Azrael wrote: I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions

[newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-22 Thread hugenots
welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g. vol1.tar; vol2.tar

Re: [newbie] UDF format cd-writer for Linux

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some program to write on cd-rws in such a way that the files can be updated without having to erase the cd before writing the new version of the files? In particular, I am interested in a program that writes in UDF format (to be also compatible with MS

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-22 Thread Graham Watkins
hugenots wrote: welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting); that volume name is smart (e.g.

Re: [newbie] archiving to multi volumes

2004-09-22 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On September 22, 2004 12:55, hugenots wrote: welcome newbie, can someone sugest nice script for making tar arcives with given size from given folder, presuming that data in folder is more than given volume size; that volumes must be independet form each other (no file spliting); that

Re: [newbie] Permissions

2004-09-22 Thread Vincent Voois
Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:31, Vincent Voois wrote: How about trying chmod +2666 /windows/* -R And then try azureus again? Alan wrote: Can somebody please advice me with this problem? I have three fat32 partitions mounted in /windows/c /windows/d and /windows/e

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread SnapafunFrank
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, seems this only got to Ryan, so I'll re-post : On Wednesday 22 September 2004 15:33, Ryan Steffes wrote: it looks like your mail client may have replied only to me and not to the list. Sorry, it's a hazard of using Gmail for lists that I can't disable the REPLY-TO On

Re: [newbie] UDF format cd-writer for Linux

2004-09-22 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:07:04 +0100, Graham Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try a google search for UDF and Linux. There seems to be some stuff but it's in the early development stage. I toyed with the idea of trying something like this but balked at messing around with bleeding edge

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread kevin ferguson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well, seems this only got to Ryan, so I'll re-post : On Wednesday 22 September 2004 15:33, Ryan Steffes wrote: it looks like your mail client may have replied only to me and not to the list. Sorry, it's a hazard of using Gmail for lists that I can't

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:29, kevin ferguson wrote: snip is there major difference in ofifcial and community then? I was going to Buy oficial but stuck with community 10.0. /snip I can't find any noticeable difference as far as function is concerned. The reason I upgraded to official

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread kevin ferguson
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:29, kevin ferguson wrote: snip is there major difference in ofifcial and community then? I was going to Buy oficial but stuck with community 10.0. /snip I can't find any noticeable difference as far as function is concerned. The

Re: [newbie] Migrating from COMMUNITY to OFFICIAL

2004-09-22 Thread SnapafunFrank
kevin ferguson wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 22 September 2004 22:29, kevin ferguson wrote: snip is there major difference in ofifcial and community then? I was going to Buy oficial but stuck with community 10.0. /snip I can't find any noticeable difference as far as function is

[newbie] Mandrake shutting down.

2004-09-22 Thread Ian
For the past few days, Mandrake has been shutting down with no action from me. This can happen at any time , at any duration of uptime. It can stay up for minutes..or hours..or days. The only clue I can find is from the system log as follows: Sep 22 14:19:36 Eclipse mdkkdm[1572]: X server

[newbie] using a widescreen monitor resolution

2004-09-22 Thread Azrael
I've just been given a 17th inch widescreen TFT monitor (Kiss Technologies, Coolview) and I am having problems setting it up correctly under mandrake 10. The monitor supports 1280x768, yet I only get the standard non-widescreen resolutions as choices. How can I set it so I am using widescreen

Re: [newbie] [OT] Yet another MS threat

2004-09-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 03:29, Graham Watkins wrote: Stephen Kühn wrote: On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 19:42, Graham Watkins wrote: Why is everyone suddenly having a go at Joe? Because he's there? Carry on like this and he may not be. Oh heck, I was there when Joe just first got ON the

Re: [newbie] 9.1 mouse lockup

2004-09-22 Thread Tom Karen Pino
Hi All, Update on mouse problem. He reinstalled the system. Now the menu that drakconf brings up works. The mouse does not. Has error message. While loading shared library: libgpm.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory. What does he do now? Just call us ignernt,

[newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-22 Thread aron Smith
Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get in Win$ux is 800 X600 is there a Generaic driver out there I can use ? If so what is the name so I can chase it

Re: [newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:22, aron Smith wrote: Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get in Win$ux is 800 X600 is there a Generaic driver out there I

Re: [newbie] OT Apology's

2004-09-22 Thread aron Smith
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 09:38 pm, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:22, aron Smith wrote: Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get

Re: [newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-22 Thread Anders Lind
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:38:43 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to manually setup the monitor via MCC = HARDWARE = MONITOR ...??? Eh Old Boy? Stephen, I think you are misunderstanding the problemit is not in ML he has the problem, but in Windows. Aron: Were

Re: [newbie] OT Apology's

2004-09-22 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 14:51, aron Smith wrote: You misunderstand it works perfectly under Linux It's Win$ux 2000 i needthe driver for mandrake had no trouble with it And the drivers out there have weird non descriptive names TMB (too much bourbon) -- stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-22 Thread aron Smith
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 09:56 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:38:43 +1000 Stephen Kühn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you tried to manually setup the monitor via MCC = HARDWARE = MONITOR ...??? Eh Old Boy? Stephen, I think you are misunderstanding the problemit is

Re: [newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-22 Thread Anders Lind
On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 22:14:46 -0700 aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nope their technical support says ican upgrade from the +MS website ..but for obovious reasons I can't do that Can you download the file in ML and move it over to the windows partitions? /Anders