Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread Margot
Anders Lind wrote: If you are installing via rpm the build order has nothing to do with it. If you are speaking of the Order in which I build the rpms, I have done it so many times I could do it in my sleep. If you are running 4.0.6, whether you are using rpms from my site or those from a Mdk

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:42:28 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: So the different modules doesn't depend on each other? Use urpmi --auto-select or urpmi xfce All xfce rpms you currently have will be properly upgraded. You are using sylpheed-claws. I assume this is because you prefer it and are satisfied

Re: [newbie] no eth0 when I do ifconfig

2004-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 25 November 2004 00:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I recently installed Mandrakelinux on a PPC Beige G3 (Mac). When I installed it the installer detected the ethernet card and allowed me to configure it. The computer is inside a small network behind a router with a DSL

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1 Official Free Download?

2004-11-25 Thread s . neigaard
Hi I have run Mandrake 9.2 before, but Im currently running Fedora Core 2. Now I want back to Mandrake, but Im considering waiting for the free release of Mandrake 10.1 Official, do you guys have any idea when the ISO's will be released? Best regards Søren

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread Anders Lind
Anders, Trust Charles, trust me! I used his Xfce on 10, and I'm now using his latest version on 10.1, and it's beautiful! Just go to his site www.eslrahc.com, follow the instructions he gives to set it as an urpmi source for whichever Mandrake you're running, then use urpmi to install -

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread Anders Lind
Use urpmi --auto-select or urpmi xfce All xfce rpms you currently have will be properly upgraded. You are using sylpheed-claws. I assume this is because you prefer it and are satisfied with the rpms Mdk provides do rpm -q --changelog sylpheed-claws |head What name do you see. Use my rpms

RE: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-25 Thread darragh . power3
Thanks JT, Appreciate it - I messed about trying to do that figured it out yesterday evening, and everythings working smoothly. Thanks for taking the time to respond ;-) Darragh -- Original Message -- From: care free [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] RE:

Re: [newbie] RE: /usr/sbin/pconf and /etc/hosts

2004-11-25 Thread darragh . power3
Thanks for responding Mikkel, I figured it out yesterday evening late - with a lot of trial and error, mainly error Cheers, Darragh -- Original Message -- Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:25:09 -0600 From: Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] RE:

Re: [newbie] Xfce 4.2 on Mandrake 9.1

2004-11-25 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Thursday 25 November 2004 08:06, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:00:50 +0100 Anders Lind wrote: you are correct there I suppose...the buildorder for the rpm's are the same as the buildorder for 4.0.6? If you are installing via rpm the build order has nothing to do with

[newbie] boot message: cpu freq failed

2004-11-25 Thread john
Hello I get the message below at the end of startup and restart: Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: Probing cpufreq modules : Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: failed Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: ^[[65G Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: [^[[1;31m Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: FAILED

[newbie] 64bit architectures

2004-11-25 Thread Len Lawrence
A bit OT this; however Is Mandrake correct about Linux being the first OS to support 64bit architectures? I can remember VMS running on 64bit DEC Alpha machines at ROE (the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) back in the early 1990s. VMS on a 200 MHz machine, and from 1993 DEC OSF/1 UNIX. Later

Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-25 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 24 November 2004 11:31 pm, Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite

Re: [newbie] 64bit architectures

2004-11-25 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 25 November 2004 05:19 am, Len Lawrence wrote: A bit OT this; however Is Mandrake correct about Linux being the first OS to support 64bit architectures? I can remember VMS running on 64bit DEC Alpha machines at ROE (the Royal Observatory Edinburgh) back in the early 1990s.

[newbie] The new TWiki

2004-11-25 Thread mike
I went to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca to have a look around. Under the main menu there is a section called Mandrake Help I seem to be able to access all the catagories except System Administration it asks for a user id and password. Is that because that catagory is under contruction? Also when

Re: [newbie] The new TWiki

2004-11-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 18:39, mike wrote: I went to http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca to have a look around. Under the main menu there is a section called Mandrake Help I seem to be able to access all the catagories except System Administration it asks

Re: [newbie] The new TWiki

2004-11-25 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 19:48, Vincent Danen wrote: On 25-Nov-04, at 11:57 AM, Anne Wilson wrote: This message raises the possibility that only certain sections give the log in problem. I can't imagine why that would be. After reading this I

Re: [newbie] boot message: cpu freq failed

2004-11-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
john wrote: Hello I get the message below at the end of startup and restart: Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: Probing cpufreq modules : Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: failed Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: ^[[65G Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost cpufreq: [^[[1;31m Nov 24 21:33:06 localhost

Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Brian Parish wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 05:25 pm, Amy wrote: FYI, I'M USING GMAIL, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CHECK THAT REPLIES ARE GOING TO THE LIST, AND NOT DIRECTLY TO ME. THANKS! Okay guys, here's what I'm trying to do. I have Sirius Satellite radio, and they're airing an interview on Friday night I

Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-25 Thread Amy
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:48:53 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting the start time is easy if you at installed. You've lost me here... if I have what installed? ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my

Re: [newbie] Recording from Satellite Radio

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:56 am, Amy wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 14:48:53 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting the start time is easy if you at installed. You've lost me here... if I have what installed? He's referring to at - which allows commands to be run at specified

[newbie] CD-burning

2004-11-25 Thread Anders Lind
Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly designed ATAPI via

[newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Thread Scott Manning
Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Not so dumb question 2. USB? Is it plug and play as in Win or does it need to be mounted like other drives (ie when using a thumb drive)

Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Scott Manning wrote: Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Not sure about the HOWTOs, as I don't have them installed on this box, but most of the documentation is in

Re: [newbie] CD-burning

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:44 am, Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target:

[newbie] problems adding disk and moving /var data

2004-11-25 Thread Jan RUBBRECHT
Hi, I've installed my proxy server (squid) on a mandrake 9.1 on a VMWare running on a Windows 2000 Server... just to start and learn more about Linux. I have a lot of servers installed, so my 4Gb disk is getting a little bit full. I had 3 partitions, /, /home and swapspace. I tried adding a new

[newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0

2004-11-25 Thread J or M Montgomery
Hello folks I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so simple I am looking right through it. I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some time ago and there were problems which caused me to revert to 9.2. I was in a hurry to

Re: [newbie] problems adding disk and moving /var data

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:00 pm, Jan RUBBRECHT wrote: Hi, I've installed my proxy server (squid) on a mandrake 9.1 on a VMWare running on a Windows 2000 Server... just to start and learn more about Linux. I have a lot of servers installed, so my 4Gb disk is getting a little bit full. I had 3

Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0

2004-11-25 Thread Brian Parish
On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:07 pm, J or M Montgomery wrote: Hello folks I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so simple I am looking right through it. I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some time ago and there were problems which

[newbie] Kmenu icon disappeared

2004-11-25 Thread Bob Read
I'm running LM9.1 on this machine. sometime today the K/gear Icon on the left end of the taskbar disappeared. Can anyone help me to get it back and working? Much Thanks, Bob -- -- Bob Read // Registered Linux user #287118 http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/b/e/bestill.htm Soli Deo Gloria-Solus

Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Thread John Wilson
Hiya Scott On November 25, 2004 02:48 pm, Scott Manning wrote: Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Click the Star/Foot thingy on the left, More Applications,

Re: [newbie] Multi boot 9.2 10.0

2004-11-25 Thread mikkel
Hello folks I have not been able to find an answer to this question but it must be so simple I am looking right through it. I have installed 10.0 (clean install, but keeping /home). This was some time ago and there were problems which caused me to revert to 9.2. I was in a hurry to

Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Thread Phil Savoie
On November 25, 2004 17:48, Scott Manning wrote: Hi ppl, Been about 5 years since my last foray into Linux...heaps has change..2 q's if I may; Dumb question 1. What directory are the How-to pages in again? Not so dumb question 2. USB? Is it plug and play as in Win or does it need to be

[newbie] No Sound in Kobo Deluxe in KDE M10 Official

2004-11-25 Thread Phil Savoie
Hello All, I am wondering why I don't have sound in this particular game. Sound works on this Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop using the snd-es1968 driver for the ES1978 Maestro 2E built-in sound card in KDE my gui of choice and in other games. I did, on iinstall, use the Alt1 kernel so I am

Re: [newbie] Returning Newbie

2004-11-25 Thread Scott Manning
- Original Message - From: John Wilson Click the Star/Foot thingy on the left, More Applications, Documentation, English Howtos. If, of course, you installed them :) Thought I had... maybe I didn't...hmmm Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] Re: CD-burning

2004-11-25 Thread Russell Butler
Anders Lind wrote: Hello friends, I have experienced something strange, after upgrading to 10.0 from 9.1 my CD/DVD-writer has stopped being reckognised as a SCSI-device, cdrecord -scanbus gives me this info: scsidev: 'ATA' devname: 'ATA' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 Warning: Using badly