Re: [newbie] Has anybody attempted to re-add their 10.1 distro sources?

2004-11-23 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 06:24, mike wrote: If you use -c option for urpmi.removemedia it will clean the headers cache directory. I borked mine up before and had to remove all sources and readd them. First I urpmi.removemedia -a -c then I had to manually remove

Re: [newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going

2004-11-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 01:10 pm, Todd Slater wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 11:17:32PM -0500, Bill Mudry wrote: Could someone help me find out why I cannot get some virtual hosts going on Apache. Bill, How about letting us know what happens when you try to access a virtual host (in

Re: [newbie] Help requested getting Apache virtual servers going

2004-11-23 Thread Lanman
Bill Mudry wrote: Could someone help me find out why I cannot get some virtual hosts going on Apache. I know my Apache is running ok since I can access it via localhost. I am running Mandrake 10.0. It also responds with [ok] for apachectl start and stop. Could any of you give suggestions on how I

[newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-23 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing. Try to pass this params while starting your pc : linux noapic nolapic I am new tp this, and was hoping someone could describe to my in detail what I am supposed to do and when? Best regards , Vegard

Re: [newbie] teach me

2004-11-23 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik [EMAIL PROTECTED] napisa: whats up, does anyone here used to watch VCD movie with TOTEM player directly from a source CD? i mean without saving it first in the hard drive. please teach me... thanks... tats of philippines IIRC, it should be in the menu under file=open VCD or something

Re: [newbie] Need help passing params while starting my pc

2004-11-23 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 07:03 pm, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: In www.mandrakeexpert.com I got this hint to fix a problem I am experiencing. Try to pass this params while starting your pc : linux noapic nolapic I am new tp this, and was hoping someone could describe to my in detail

[newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
My 13 year old son was playing Doom3 the other day when he came rushing in and said that he smelled something burning (electrical). Now, he thinks the game is very realistic but he knows that it doesn't include smell so he attempted to shutdown but his system locked up (hard) before he could.

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was purchased from they will replace it. As far as I know this is

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power supply to make sure it is not the cause. Regards, Dan Gordon

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Linux not yet ready for primetime

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:31:14 -0800 David E. Fox disseminated the following: And why are .com files even supported anyway? Those things are holdovers from CP/M, for god's sake. Actually, I've used them more than a few times just in the recent past...to clean infected Windows PC's! :-D There's

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:49 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive combination) that's preventing writing to the MBR. Perhaps something intended

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:45 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Lanman
Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive combination) that's preventing writing to the MBR. Perhaps

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Dan Gordon
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:01 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I replaced the P/S. That was my very first thought as well. It didn't make any difference as to the symptoms. Only replacing the video card returned it to a usable system. P/S can and is usually the cause of other hardware

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 08:29 am, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On November 22, 2004 15:38, Lanman wrote: Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: ... Just a wild guess, but it sounds like there might be something in the BIOS or the drive (or something to do with the BIOS/motherboard/drive

[newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Thread Paul
Hi all, I try to start webmin (https://localhost:1), instead of that I am presented this message: Alert You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information: Your certificate contains the same

Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Paul napisa: Hi all, I try to start webmin (https://localhost:1), instead of that I am presented this message: Alert You have received an invalid certificate. Please contact the server administrator or email correspondent and give them the following information: Your certificate

Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:22 +0100 schreef Wojciech Podgórni: It seems that your current certificate for localhost is different that the certificate memorised by your browser. It happens when you reinstall webmin. I think you should just delete the memorised certificate and accept a new one. (At

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Eric Scott
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in the news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboards in a way that makes it only work with Windoze but not with Linux, and responding to complaints

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 18:37, Eric Scott wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:58 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: In fact, I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was Asus that was in the news recently for breaking the ethernet on their motherboards

[newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-23 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, is it possible to run Xfce 4.2 on Mdk 9.1. I had to make an emergencyinstall here and ended up with 9.1, gonna use the night to download 10.x though Cheers Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Anders Lind
Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Best Regards, Anders Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 19:42, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Try googling for mp32wav

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 08:42:35PM +0100, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Try mpg123. Todd

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Wojciech Podgrni
Uytkownik Anders Lind napisa: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Best Regards, Anders Do you mean package xmms-diskwriter? In Mandrake 10.1 it is in the

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:46:25 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean package xmms-diskwriter? In Mandrake 10.1 it is in the main Mandrake package repository. You just have to install it. Unfortunately i use 9.1 but I guess I can find it on rpmfind /Anders

Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Dan Gordon wrote: I would still try and return the card you never know. I've got the receipt/manuals, so I'm gonna give it a shot. Ya never know, I might get lucky. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 03:04 pm, Anders Lind wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:46:25 +0100 Wojciech Podgórni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you mean package xmms-diskwriter? In Mandrake 10.1 it is in the main Mandrake package repository. You just have to install it. Unfortunately i use 9.1

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Lanman
Aron Smith wrote: I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on it I reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the install terminatesafter i hit enter to install also i lose any input to the screen Aron, The problem is connected to

[newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Todd Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Anders Lind
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:03:55 -0500 Ronald J. Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anders, if you have your sources setup then: urpmi xmms-diskwriter should do it. :-) Thanks, it worked for now, downloaded from rpmfind.net /Anders Want to

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 23 Nov 2004 20:06, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on it I reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the install terminatesafter i hit enter to

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-23 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 05:59, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, is it possible to run Xfce 4.2 on Mdk 9.1. I had to make an emergencyinstall here and ended up with 9.1, gonna use the night to download 10.x though Cheers Anders Anders, I think you're going to hit the wall with the GTK-2

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:42:35 +0100 Anders Lind disseminated the following: another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav urpmi lame then add these lines to your .bashrc (all one line for each, of course): function mp3ren() { for i in *.mp3; do mv $i `echo $i | tr ' ' '_'`;done;

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I was surprised by that too when I first noticed. What is your

Re: [newbie] /home/user permissions

2004-11-23 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 04:51:43PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 15:06:00 -0500 Todd Slater disseminated the following: I just noticed that all user directories in /home allow group and other read access. Shouldn't the default setting for /home/user be -rwx--? Ya, I was

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 12:06 pm, Lanman wrote: Aron Smith wrote: I'm having a similar problem except that the box *had* mandrake 10.0 on it I reformatted the drive (don't ask) and tried to install 10.1 the install terminatesafter i hit enter to install also i lose any input to the

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not. Best Regards, Anders mp32wav i think --

RE: [newbie] Help

2004-11-23 Thread care free
Do you have spare older video card that is supported by linux? If you do, pull out the ATI 9800Pro and install the other. I have a Tyan Tiger MP and cannot even start the box with an ATI 9700 Pro. I have to use a different card. J.T. From: Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Help

2004-11-23 Thread care free
Oh, by the way, please be more specific about you subject! J.T. From: Gilligan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Help Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:46:08 -0500 I am having a major problem installing Mandrake. I have an ASUS A8V-Deluxe WiFi MB and an

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:33:00 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: mp32wav i think ...are you thinking of mp32ogg? Unless I'm missing something way back here on 9.2 ;-) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 18:16:37 up 2 days, 9:25, 7 users, load average: 0.17, 0.08,

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Bill Mudry
At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote: FWIW I have Asus mobos on two boxes, one of which has onboard ethernet. It is recognised and runs without problems. I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Anne Bill Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Looking for Mr. 'Boot-Guru

2004-11-23 Thread Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 06:39 pm, Bill Mudry wrote: At 06:40 PM 11/23/04 +, you wrote: FWIW I have Asus mobos on two boxes, one of which has onboard ethernet. It is recognised and runs without problems. I have heard a lot of terms, but - what is a mobo?? Anne Bill MB or

[newbie] Lil' Poke at Gentoo

2004-11-23 Thread JoeHill
Just for fun: http://funroll-loops.org/ -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 20:44:29 up 2 days, 11:53, 6 users, load average: 0.36, 0.09, 0.02 +++ Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. -- Jesus

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Chris
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 04:33 pm, Aron Smith wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello again, another question, is there a software to convert MP3 to wav with...I tried using XMMS but it seems that the plugin that is supposed to be there for it is not.

Re: [newbie] Converting MP3 to wav

2004-11-23 Thread Aron Smith
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 03:17 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:33:00 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: mp32wav i think ...are you thinking of mp32ogg? Unless I'm missing something way back here on 9.2 ;-) might be since I have never converted one back except

Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:51 am, Paul wrote: Op Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:22 +0100 schreef Wojciech Podgórni: It seems that your current certificate for localhost is different that the certificate memorised by your browser. It happens when you reinstall webmin. I think you should just delete

Re: [newbie] teach me

2004-11-23 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 22 November 2004 9:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats up, does anyone here used to watch VCD movie with TOTEM player directly from a source CD? i mean without saving it first in the hard drive. please teach me... I have done it with Xine. But I don't use totem or any others.

[newbie] ** Welcome to Newbie **

2004-11-23 Thread newbie
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Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Thread Paul
Op Tue, 23 Nov 2004 19:53:35 -0800 schreef Rob Blomquist: and so where is the certificate found?? I use firefox. In there, in preferences - Advanced there is a section for certificate management. You can delete certificates there. Paul -- A signature always reveals a man's character - and