Re: [newbie] Bad Sync Kontact -- Kpilot -- Palm

2005-01-12 Thread Edward Holcroft
Hi I have had the same problem with my Tungsten T3. It worked perfeclty on 10.0 and is now broken. My log files revealed timeouts on the USB port. There seems to be quite a few mentions of this on google, but no solutions that I could find yet. It seems that it's not a KPilot or Kontact

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ? Kaj

Re: [newbie] help yourself to upgrate to KDE 3.3.2 : The great one.

2005-01-12 Thread Positive Negative
That doesn't work. Command line and GUI. It doesn't work. All the packages conflict with the old KDE, and they wont install even when forced. So... step by step. How did you do it... thank you. On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:13:12 -0800 (PST), Hemal Detroja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks,

Re: [newbie] help yourself to upgrate to KDE 3.3.2 : The great one.

2005-01-12 Thread Positive Negative
OK, ' rpm -ivUF *.rpm --force I did this and it wont go back to X unless you delete your .kde folder in your home directory. Now i have a really f--ked up KDE 3.2... Now what? On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:39:01 -0800, Positive Negative [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That doesn't work. Command line

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you

[newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread M.Schild
I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro performance. as long as it installs easily. Any suggestions? What do I have to avoid? TIA Maryse

Re: [newbie] Problem with CUPS

2005-01-12 Thread Alan Dunford
Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting CUPS/Windows to print. The setup is a Linux box running Mandrake 10.0

Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 23:28, Dennis Myers wrote: I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error while reading

[newbie] 'make' it gives me an error; *** [default] Error 2

2005-01-12 Thread et
I feeel very thick headed this morning,,, I am running MDK 10.1 official, 2.6.8.1-10mdksmp or 2.6.8.1-12mdksmp when I attempt to 'make' it gives me an error; make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdksmp/build SUBDIRS=/home/et/usbvis/usbvision-0.9.8/src modules make: ***

Re: [newbie] Problem with CUPS

2005-01-12 Thread et
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying problem getting

Re: [newbie] Problem with CUPS

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 11:10, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: #ServerName myhost.domain.com Put the windows box name into that line, if it's not already there. Anne Thanks to both for the above comments. snip

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro

[newbie] no uploads with firestarter

2005-01-12 Thread Carsten Lissmann
Hi all, here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I attempt to upload from either machine it will lock down the whole

[newbie] re:-Problem with CUPS

2005-01-12 Thread Alan Dunford
et wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan Dunford wrote: Hi, Here we have an annoying

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro performance. as long as it installs easily. Any

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 11:25, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer

[newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

2005-01-12 Thread David Reynolds
Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't install, so I'm back to the CLI for cdburning.

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread Miark
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:42:52 +0530, P.Prabhu wrote: How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0 ? Mmmm, plug it in? :-) What happens in KDE when you plug it in? Does a device icon appear on the desktop? Have you tried rebooting the machine with the drive plugged in? Miark

Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter

2005-01-12 Thread Miark
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:06:33 +0100, Carsten wrote: here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I attempt to upload

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:06, Miark wrote: On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:42:52 +0530, P.Prabhu wrote: How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0 ? Mmmm, plug it in? :-) What happens in KDE when you plug it in? Does a device icon appear on the desktop? Have you tried rebooting the machine

Re: [newbie] re:-Problem with CUPS

2005-01-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:21 am, Alan Dunford wrote: et wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:10 am, Alan Dunford wrote: Anne Wilson and Ed Tharp wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 10:58, et wrote: On Monday 10 January 2005 01:52 pm, Alan

Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail

2005-01-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 23:28, Dennis Myers wrote: I did some updates for bugs and security and now I can not print from konqueror or kmail. The error message is: A print error occurred. Error message received from system: Error

Re: [newbie] Unknown device devscsihost2bus0target0lun0part1mntremovable

2005-01-12 Thread Q.H. Wang
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 02:17 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: Try inserting the stick and then umount /mnt/removable (or right-click the con and unmount) Many thanks guys. I have to borrow a flash memory stick from my pal and umount it. Now it's fine. before removing the stick. I always had

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:29, John Layt wrote: Plug it in. If no icon appears, fire up MCC/Mount Points/Partitions and it should appear there, give it a mount point and mount it. Done. Note, using this second method, you loose the mount point

Re: [newbie] no uploads with firestarter

2005-01-12 Thread Carsten Lissmann
here's something I can't figure out on my mini-lan. A Fedora C2 box makes the router (used Firestarter 1.0.1 to set it up). One of the clients is a MDK 10.1 machine (and why I'm subscribed to this list). Whenever I attempt to upload from either machine it will lock down the whole network

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find malware, uploaded by the RIAA-type companies in order to

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:43 am, et wrote: /home or /tmp or where ever bt is storing the download until it writes to the completed file? As far as I know - it usually (but not always) creates (it asks) a folder on /home that it d/ls the file to. I've probably got 20 gigs free on /home,

Re: [newbie] kde/urpmi mess

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:20 am, SnapafunFrank wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 19:44, Brett Lyon wrote: After a recent routine update (urpmi.update -a;urpmi --auto-select), I get this when calling K3B (from anywhere): [EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]# k3b k3b: symbol

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 17:26, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 03:27 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Just a guess : the message bad info on file + shorewall stopped could mean you have been compromised somehow. On other file-sharing networks like kazaa it's common to find

Re: [newbie] Printing from kmail

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:42, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 12 January 2005 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks for the reply Anne. I did not find any filters there. However, once I set up HPwebjet again (it also disappeared when I updated)

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:34 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Any crash you walk away fromright? :-) Agreed. On the other hand, under those circumstances it should be doable to fix a corrupt partition by using reiserfsck. Dark Lady in the machine, perhaps ? - Anyway, I'm glad you got it

Re: [newbie] Odd experience

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 11:33 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 11 January 2005 02:31 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Sounds like something with bittorrent. What did the error message say ? What torrent were you downloading/uploading ? Did you set your firewall to open for torrents ?

Re: [newbie] Xscreensavers not working from within KDE control Center

2005-01-12 Thread frengoGorgia
Il mer, 2005-01-12 alle 04:28, Mikkel L. Ellertson ha scritto: Troy Wolfe wrote: All, I am haveing a problem getting the screensavers from xscreensaver that are included in the kcontrol module to work properly. twolfe An update was just released to fix this. It should be in the

Re: [newbie] Re: winmodems

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 11 January 2005 08:19 pm, Ana Paula Samodossi wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions. I think I ll be switching to an adls connection in a few months, thanks for all guys!! When you do go for adsl, holler back Ana, with the hardware required. Often your ISP will provide it.

Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

2005-01-12 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 08:30 am, David Reynolds wrote: Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of

[newbie] Volunteers needed

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The TWiki page http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/TheDrakes lists many Drakes that have no follow-up entry. For some, there will be little to say. Others would benefit from more explanation. It would be helpful if we could have a volunteer

Re: [newbie] Xscreensavers not working from within KDE control Center

2005-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like to update my xscreensaver as well. Where can it be found? Should I use easy Urmp to configurei? On Wednesday 12 January 2005 09:40 am, frengoGorgia wrote: Il mer, 2005-01-12 alle 04:28, Mikkel L. Ellertson ha scritto: Troy Wolfe wrote: All, I am haveing a problem getting the

Re: [newbie] using k3b to append files to a cd -rw

2005-01-12 Thread Graham Watkins
eric jackson wrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:11:20 -0400, Ronald Haynes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am pretty new to burning CD's. I was wondering if there is a way to use k3b (or some other tool) to append files to a cd-rw. I thought this would be easy, but if I drag and drop a new file

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:29, John Layt wrote: Plug it in. If no icon appears, fire up MCC/Mount Points/Partitions and it should appear there, give it a mount point and mount it. Done. Note, using this second method, you loose the mount

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy. http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ Regards, Dan Gordon That web site has

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread Ron Hunter-Duvar
On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I avoid Epson because of their business practices (not for technical

[newbie] Difference in full package Powerpack v. disks only purchase

2005-01-12 Thread Andy Yankovich
Hi all, Is there a difference in *disk content* between the six-disk-only for $12.99 (online over web) and the MandrakeStore package for $84.00 other than hard copy manuals? If not, do I need the $84.00 version to use Mandrakeonline? Are there other benefits to buy the $84.00 full package from

[newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

2005-01-12 Thread Andy Yankovich
This post confirms the newbie in me. I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail client. I configured it, used it, and it worked fine. I tried to right click to save link to desktop as I did with Firefox, but alas, it didn't work, so when I exited the Thunderbird screen it

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 21:57, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy.

Re: [newbie] Difference in full package Powerpack v. disks only purchase

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:23, Andy Yankovich wrote: Hi all, Is there a difference in *disk content* between the six-disk-only for $12.99 (online over web) and the MandrakeStore package for $84.00 other than hard copy manuals? If not, do I need the $84.00 version to use Mandrakeonline?

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Thread Dan Gordon
On January 12, 2005 03:57 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy.

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

2005-01-12 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:26, Andy Yankovich wrote: This post confirms the newbie in me. I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail client. I configured it, used it, and it worked fine. I tried to right click to save link to desktop as I did with Firefox, but alas,

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread Paul
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 14:08 -0700, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ...

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 20:57, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:02, John Layt wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:36, Anne Wilson wrote: There seems to be a bug in there somewhere, I think to do with the USB device randomly changing its id. I've had occasions where I've unplugged and

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird flew away??

2005-01-12 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 22:06, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 13 January 2005 03:26, Andy Yankovich wrote: This post confirms the newbie in me. I downloaded Thunderbird from the Mozilla site to use as my mail client. I configured it, used

Re: [newbie] tv out

2005-01-12 Thread Josenildo Marques
On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:37 -0700, Joe wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello! I would like to play films on the Linux box and watch them on the tv. What I know is that I have to change the xorg.conf file, but I don't have the faintest idea what the changes should look like. Any tip,

[newbie] 'i18n' directory

2005-01-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, all. My system (Mdk 9.1, but also Mdk 10.1 Community) lacks of the subdir 'i18n' within the dir '/usr/share'. Does anybody know how to install it? It contains the two subsubdirs 'charmaps' and 'locales'. Thanks for any help, Rodolfo

[newbie] kaffeine: All Video Drivers failed to initialize

2005-01-12 Thread Bruce Ellison
Hi all. I have been enjoying Kaffeine for a month or so now, but I recently got the above error when starting Kaffeine now (it doesn't start at all - ie, no music files even). hint 1 - I recently installed a second DVD burner on the machine (Benq 1610). Thought that its installation was

Re: [newbie] Translate errors with cdrecord?

2005-01-12 Thread RickSisler
David Reynolds ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay, I need to back up some of my data and, more importantly, burn my 10.1 ISOs before I reinstall (to fix the libgcc error my machine developed on the last install). However *because* libgcc failed, there are a whole host of programs I can't

Re: [newbie] Error retrieving (update) packages

2005-01-12 Thread Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 02:57 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 11, 2005 18:22, Dan Gordon wrote: ... Can anyone please tell me how to use the software manager to remove and re-add it and also how to re-configure it? Yes go here and follow the instructions its very easy.

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread Aron Smith
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 01:08 pm, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ...

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I

Re: [newbie] Bad Sync Kontact -- Kpilot -- Palm

2005-01-12 Thread Glenn
On Wednesday 12 January 2005 12:56 am, Edward Holcroft wrote: Hi I have had the same problem with my Tungsten T3. It worked perfeclty on 10.0 and is now broken. My log files revealed timeouts on the USB port. There seems to be quite a few mentions of this on google, but no solutions that I

Re: [newbie] tv out

2005-01-12 Thread Joe
Josenildo Marques wrote: On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 19:37 -0700, Joe wrote: Josenildo Marques wrote: Hello! I would like to play films on the Linux box and watch them on the tv. What I know is that I have to change the xorg.conf file, but I don't have the faintest idea what the changes should

[newbie] Wireless mouse

2005-01-12 Thread Aron Smith
i-one wireless mouse lynx MVII works perfectly in 10.2 hooray! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] removing iconify button in TWM xterm

2005-01-12 Thread rasta rasta
hi! i want to remove the iconify button in TWM xterm but still retain the resize button. can anyone tell me how to do it? thanks for your time! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

[newbie] removing iconify button in TWM xterm.

2005-01-12 Thread rasta rasta
hi! i'm very sorry for my initial email. i forgot to set yahoo mail to send emails in plain text format. my apologies again. i want to remove the iconify button in TWM xterm but still retain the resize button. can anyone tell me how to do it? thanks for your time!