Re: [newbie] digikam Sony P73 set up

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Hardie
Hi All I am still struggling with this digikam thing. When i set up the camera as the usb mass storage and open the window it says it is conencted but nothing appears. I hav tried this:> tail -f /var/log/messages and nothing appears when i plug and unplug the usb. If i try and mount /mnt/came

[newbie] Acrobat Reader Install Problem

2004-12-13 Thread Graham Watkins
Greetings, I tried to install the Acrobat Reader yesterday, something that worked perfectly under 9.2. However the install only proceeded to the point where I got the following error message: Installing platform dependent files ... Done ./INSTALL: line 219: ed: command not found ERROR installing

Re: [newbie] Ballmer Asked For a $100 PC and Here It Is: Running GNU/Linux

2004-12-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 13 December 2004 07:27 pm, JoeHill wrote: > http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041125130431451 Be careful what you wish for ..you might get it ;-) -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.ma

[newbie] Installing Mdk 10.0 on primary slave

2004-12-13 Thread Cameron MacDonald
Hi all- I'm having trouble installing Mandrake 10.0 on my machine I just built. I have Windows XP on primary master (160G), and I want to put Mdk on pri. slave (80G). I've used these install disks on my old machine (with XP on the master also) and had no prob. When I boot from CD, I choose "instal

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
András Keszei wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:04, Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread András Keszei
On Tue, 2004-12-14 at 13:04, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except > root). I could login with my account, but the only available account > to login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I > login as root ? In fact

[newbie] Ballmer Asked For a $100 PC and Here It Is: Running GNU/Linux

2004-12-13 Thread JoeHill
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041125130431451 -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 22:26:41 up 22 days, 13:38, 7 users, load average: 0.39, 0.32, 0.57 +++ There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Monday 13 December 2004 08:49 pm, Randall D. Hobbs wrote: > 2) Create a normal user: > > adduser -p password myusername Correction - it's expecting an already encrypted password. Take out the '-p password' above, and set the password form the command line: passwd myusername That should do it

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread Randall D. Hobbs
On Monday 13 December 2004 08:04 pm, Danesh Daroui wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except > root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to > login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login > as root ?

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread jdow
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except > > root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to > > login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login > > as root ? In fact, the probl

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root log in

2004-12-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 13 December 2004 07:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread jdow
From: "Danesh Daroui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > > I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except > root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to > login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login > as root ? In fact, th

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread mikkel
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except >>>root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to >>>login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login >>>as root ? In fact, the problem

[newbie] Non-persistent kpanel configurations

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Kaplan
When I try to make changes to icons of buttons on the kpanel via the right click > properties, they do not persist after re-booting. It ocurred to me that the buttons might inherit their properties from the menu items of the same name so I used menudrake to change the menu entry for BOTH normal

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root log in

2004-12-13 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 13 December 2004 07:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except > > root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to > > login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I logi

Re: [newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don't know how can I login as root ? In fact, the problem is even wor

[newbie] Non-persistent panel configurations

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Kaplan
When I change the icons for application buttons on the kpanel using the properties menu item that appears after right-clicking the button, the changes don't persist after I reboot. It then ocurred to me that the properties are inherited from the menu items of the same name, so I tried using menu

[newbie] mndk 10.1 official root login

2004-12-13 Thread Danesh Daroui
Hi all, I have installed mndk 10.1 official and created an account (except root). I could login with my account, but the only available account to login at the login window was my account. I don't  know how can I login as root ? In fact, the problem is even worse. I have deleted that account t

Re: [newbie] CD-burning - semi-hijack

2004-12-13 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Monday 13 December 2004 17:31, Anne Wilson wrote: > > BTW, the name on the outside of the drive is WriterPlus by RetailPlus > > (never heard of them before, it's a Walmart special :^). Internally, > > according to "cdrecord --scanbus", it a 'TOSHIBA ' 'ODD-DVD SD-R5272' > > '1030'. > > A pleasu

Re: [newbie] xdesktopwaves and 10.1

2004-12-13 Thread Miark
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:31:00 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently converted to LM10.1 Official and I was wondering if > xdesktopwaves can work on it. I have installed the 1.2 version but I'm > wondering if it works due the X11 vs. XOrg switch. Does anyone have it > working? I have

Re: [newbie] Compatibility with Microsoft Word

2004-12-13 Thread András Keszei
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 08:20, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo wrote: > On my PC I have Windows 98. > In practically all cases, when you attach a file in an e-mail, > tipically a curriculum vitae, they absolutely want it in .doc format. > I've never had the problem of the version though: I've always

Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter

2004-12-13 Thread Simon Roberts
The syntax that works for you ("sh xyz") says "start a shell, and have that shell read this file, and follow the instructions in it". To do that, you must have read permission for the file. By contrast "./xyz" says "execute this file" and for that, you must have execute permission :) These two r

Re: [newbie] CD-burning - semi-hijack

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 13, 2004 12:47, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 13 Dec 2004 18:56, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > > On December 12, 2004 21:25, RickSisler wrote: > > > Graham Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > A couple of months ago, under 10.0 Official Download edition, I could > > burn data CDs, bu

[newbie] Updates

2004-12-13 Thread Charles A Edwards
Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 libxfce4mcs2-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libxfce4mcs2-devel-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libxfce4util1-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libxfce4util1-devel-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libxfcegui4_3-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm libxfcegui4_3-devel-4.1.99.2-0.1010.1mdk.

Re: [newbie] CD-burning - semi-hijack

2004-12-13 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 13 Dec 2004 18:56, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > On December 12, 2004 21:25, RickSisler wrote: > > Graham Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A couple of months ago, under 10.0 Official Download edition, I could burn > data CDs, but not audio

Re: [newbie] CD-burning

2004-12-13 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On December 12, 2004 21:25, RickSisler wrote: > Graham Watkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: .. > Hi Graham, > k3b works for me, both DVD and CD's and the RPM's are from Charles. > http://www.eslrahc.com/ > > Hope it works for ya. A couple of months ago, under 10.0 Official Download edition, I could

Re: [newbie] MDK 10.1 Official SiS 180 (P4S800D) ver. 2

2004-12-13 Thread António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos
Thanks for your help and attention. I'm going to investigate the link you gave me and follow your advices. Best regards, António. On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 11:10:59 -0600, Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 13 December 2004 06:51 am, António Jorge Mota > Vasconcelos wrote: > > Anyone?

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader Install Problem

2004-12-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 08:25, Graham Watkins wrote: > Greetings, > > I tried to install the Acrobat Reader yesterday, something that > worked perfectly under 9.2. However the install only proceeded to the > point > > where I got the following error message: > > Installing platform dependent fi

[newbie] Success with UdfTools

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All Has someone here ever been successful with using udftools? I have installed the package for Mandrake 10.1 from the mirrors and no success. Thanks in advance, Paulo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://ww

Re: [newbie] Hostname/Lan/SMB Problems

2004-12-13 Thread Charles R. Buchanan
Thanks Adolfo. I will give that a shot, once the LAN problem is solved. Looks like I'll have to do things the "windows" way and just wipe the drive and re-install everything. On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:51:22 -0400, Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had this to say: AB> Regarding the printer prob

[newbie] MDK 10.1 Official SiS 180 (P4S800D) ver. 2

2004-12-13 Thread António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos
Anyone? Asus P4S800D + MDK 10.1 + SATA Disk Please Thanks in advance to you all. António. :) -- Forwarded message -- From: António Jorge Mota Vasconcelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 11:11:02 + Subject: MDK 10.1 Official SiS 180 Sata To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [newbie] /bin/sh: bad interpreter

2004-12-13 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:42:47 -0700 (GMT-07:00), Simon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bad interpreter is the error bash gives when the script isn't executable. > > Do > > chmod +x LinxuxInstaller.bin > > and it'll probably be happy. > > (Anyone know why it does this strange thing?) Simo

Re: [newbie] sihp1000.img and the HP Laserjet 1000

2004-12-13 Thread Martin Hardie
On Monday 13 Dec 2004 08:57, Len Lawrence wrote: BIG SNIP > > I suppose this is what I have to do: > > > > "be sure to put the *img file in the /etc/printer as printerdrake says to > > do ..." > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000 > > It looks like the .img fil