Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread Margot
Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. This usually happens after failed or interrupted download/installation. To cure it, as root in terminal: rm

Re: [newbie] urpmi database blocked

2005-03-11 Thread SnapafunFrank
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 10:56 pm, Tahir Abdullah wrote: Thanks Aron When I tried to follow the three steps on the web-site following error comes urpmi database locked WHat is this problem. a reboot will fix this (inelegent and there is probably a better way) The

Re: [newbie] file size limit

2005-03-11 Thread Trygve Seljeflot
On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:56, SnapafunFrank wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Trygve Seljeflot wrote: I'm usin fish in Konqueror, smaller files is no problem. OK, well I think that uses scp. Try using the command line. At a bash prompt, try setting the ulimit: ulimit -f unlimited

Re: [newbie] file size limit

2005-03-11 Thread et
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:49 am, Trygve Seljeflot wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:56, SnapafunFrank wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Trygve Seljeflot wrote: I'm usin fish in Konqueror, smaller files is no problem. OK, well I think that uses scp. Try using the command line. At a

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread Adrian Coman
maybe you su from one user ... try su - , urpmi is not available for normal users. joe wrote: Anyone have an idea why urpmi stopped working? Mandrake 10.1 official. Been using it sucsessfully for quite a while now. urpmi shows up in rpmdrake, I apparently sucessfully (re)-installed it. Yet i

Re: [newbie] Bittorrent setup {FIXED]

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:36:27 +, Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 10 Mar 2005 17:21, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 14:03, Christopher Taylor wrote: Some of the sites that I am looking at only have downloads via bittorent. Can someone explain what this

Re: [newbie] file size limit

2005-03-11 Thread Trygve Seljeflot
On Friday 11 March 2005 11:49, et wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:49 am, Trygve Seljeflot wrote: On Thursday 10 March 2005 11:56, SnapafunFrank wrote: Duncan Anderson wrote: Trygve Seljeflot wrote: I'm usin fish in Konqueror, smaller files is no problem. OK, well I think

[newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their respective camera

RE: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install

2005-03-11 Thread Davage, Marcus
Title: RE: [newbie] NTL Cable modem problems in MDK10.0 install No, it doesn't. Not on his or mine. He gets... New Connection - LAN Connection - Net Device (*) Manual Choice ...no Automatic IP. Marcus -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:00:54 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera.

[newbie] krecipes

2005-03-11 Thread julie
Has anyone tried using krecipes? Julie Owens, Oregon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi there, Have you tried gphoto or gphoto2? It's quite powerful. I'm kinda success to handle two cameras, one is SONY something and another is KODAK something. Both are not listed models but gphoto2 could handle it as a generic type. HTH. Bests, Q.H.

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. I would double

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread M.Schild
What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything else needed? FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. Are you sure it is not being seen? I have not looked up the camera, but most newer

[newbie] Duvida

2005-03-11 Thread Barbosa, Robson dos Santos
Sou iniciante tb, gostaria de saber sobr e o mandrake 9,0. instalei em casa, a partir de uma revista que todo mês rola distribuições, ele naum colegue carregar a parte grafica. Xstart?. tem algum outro comando para o mesmo? ...tem como eu chekar se foi a minha

Re: [newbie] Duvida

2005-03-11 Thread Philippe Landau
Barbosa, Robson dos Santos wrote: Sou iniciante tb, gostaria de saber sobr e o mandrake 9,0. instalei em casa, a partir de uma revista que todo mês rola distribuições, ele naum colegue carregar a parte grafica. Xstart?. tem algum outro comando para o mesmo? ...tem como eu

[newbie] Can't set nomail!

2005-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
For various family reasons, things will be rather chaotic for the next 2-3 weeks. Consequently I will not be doing any computing. As I don't want hundreds of postings waiting for me when I am back on the computer, I have been trying to set nomail for both newbie and expert, following the

Re: [newbie] Can't set nomail!

2005-03-11 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:08 + schreef Keith Powell: All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain is the correct address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better... Good luck! Paul -- The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it. - Edward

[newbie] How to install Xaw3d?

2005-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, all the listers. From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the following steps are

Re: [newbie] Can't set nomail!

2005-03-11 Thread Keith Powell
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:04, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 11 Mar 2005 17:00:08 + schreef Keith Powell: All were sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], which I am certain is the correct address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be better... Good luck! Paul Thanks, Paul, If you don't hear from me again, it's

Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?

2005-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all the listers. From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Phlod
Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's listed in their

Re: [newbie] krecipes

2005-03-11 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 11, 2005 10:33 am, julie wrote: Has anyone tried using krecipes? Yes i have it working here, its nice but i found Gourmet Recipe Manager http://grecipe-manager.sourceforge.net To be a little nicer and easier to use IMO. Both programs i was able to build the latest versions from

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! -- Mr. Geek Registered Linux User #190712 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:15, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! ;-) Not just a pretty face ;-) Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

[newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Thanks to everyone who tried to help, and especially to Anne, who's suggestion got things working. It was somewhat weird that the camera would have to be in a certain mode to work with a computer. So I hope that my next question won't seem as strange. Is there some software that will allow me

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:49, Phlod wrote: Well, I don't know how much this will help you, but I had the same problem with my Powershot A85, and this is how I got it working. First I installed the usbview package to make sure it was being detected. It wasn't, so, lacking a great amount of

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:15, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! ;-) Not just a pretty face ;-) Anne Uh, Er, nevermind. I found the stuff I

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:45, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:15, Mr. Geek wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play mode. Anne That did the trick Anne! It wasn't in play mode! Jeesh! ;-) Not just a

[newbie] DVD recorder compatibility

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 18:41, Mr. Geek wrote: Thanks to everyone who tried to help, and especially to Anne, who's suggestion got things working. It was somewhat weird that the camera would have to be in a certain mode to work with a computer. I don't think so, really. The computer isn't

Re: [newbie] urpmi: command not found

2005-03-11 Thread JoeHill
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:47:16 -0700 joe disseminated the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home]# urpmi glabels bash: urpmi: command not found Did you try 'urpmi urpmi'? ...just kidding :-))) -- JoeHill / RLU #282046 / www.freeyourmachine.org 14:16:52 up 18 days, 16:20, 2 users, load average:

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 11 March 2005 19:41, Mr. Geek wrote: Thanks to everyone who tried to help, and especially to Anne, who's suggestion got things working. It was somewhat weird that the camera would have to be in a certain mode to work with a computer. So I hope that my next question won't seem as

Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?

2005-03-11 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rodolfo Medina wrote: From: ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/widgets/Xaw3d/R6.3/ I downloaded the package Xaw3d-1.5.tar.gz but have problems with its installation (I have Mandrake 10.1 Community). Can anyone provide help? In the README.XAW3D file contained in the distribution the following steps

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mr. Geek
Kaj Haulrich wrote: Mr. Geek, if you mount your camera as /mnt camera, become root in a terminal, cd to /mnt and issue the command chmod 777 camera (where camera can be anything you choose, i.e. removable or whatever). That will allow you to write, delete etc. directly on the camera. Beware

Re: [newbie] How to install Xaw3d?

2005-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I would run urpmi libXaw3d7 and use the pre-build Mandrake package. But if you realy want to compile it yourself, start by installing the libxorg-x11-devel package. It contains imake, along with other things you will need. Then you will need to

Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility

2005-03-11 Thread Ian
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 19:14, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Works fine here. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Powered by Mandrake 10.1 Microsoft Free

[newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Well, I had a fully working k3b setup until I had a major problem with my /home directory (don't ask - long story) and reinstalled. Anyways, k3b now errors whenever I try to burn a DVD. I've got a Plextor 708a, with the following software versions running: libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk

[newbie] Updates

2005-03-11 Thread Charles A Edwards
Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 bogofilter-0.94.0-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-1.0.3-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-cachesaver-plugin-1.0.3_0.5-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-clamav-plugin-1.0.3-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm sylpheed-claws-devel-1.0.3-0.1010.1mdk.i586.rpm

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited

Fwd: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode

2005-03-11 Thread Amy
Huh, I really should watch what I'm doing. I thought I was sending this to the list. Bah. Forwarded to the list now. -- Forwarded message -- From: Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:46:08 -0800 Subject: Re: [newbie] Network Card Not Working in Full Duplex Mode To:

Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:32:59 +, Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Works fine here. Thanks, Ian. Paul

Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility

2005-03-11 Thread Mike Adolf
On Friday 11 March 2005 02:14 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? Thanks in advance, Paul Paul, You can try looking in the hardware database

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 11 March 2005 07:59 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Mr. Geek wrote: Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 ports. Mandrake sees the USB

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6 kernel, I think. Anne Sorry, should have added:

Re: [newbie] DVD recorder compatibility

2005-03-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:34:09 -0500, Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I know whether the following DVD recorder is compatible with Mandrake 10.1: Nec - Recorder DVD ND-3520A Double Layer 16x bulk ? You can try looking in the hardware database

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 11 March 2005 05:44 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Aron Smith wrote: The Camera has to be on so that the usb port on the camera is active I guess this is camera dependant. The ones I have used it the past turned on as soon as I plugged in the USB cable. They also powered themselves off the USB cable when it was plugged in. Mikkel -- Do not

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread rikona
Hello Anne, Friday, March 11, 2005, 10:42:05 AM, Anne wrote: AW On Friday 11 Mar 2005 17:49, Phlod wrote: Well, I don't know how much this will help you, but I had the same problem with my Powershot A85, and this is how I got it working. First I installed the usbview package to make sure it

[newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype

2005-03-11 Thread Dave Ashmore
Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs some help learning how to get around Mandrake Linux

[newbie] artswrapper oddity

2005-03-11 Thread Phlod
Hello again everyone. I'm having a rather bizarre problem with artswrapper (and my system notifications, but I think the two may be related). Ever since I upgraded to KDE 3.3, I haven't been able to set the Sound System to Realtime priority. When I try, it gives me this error: Impossible to

Re: [newbie] Canon Powershot A85

2005-03-11 Thread Duncan Anderson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 15:59, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) Mine is not detected until I switch it on - and it must be in Play

Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype

2005-03-11 Thread Noel McG.
Hello Dave, Do we take it from EST that you are in the US or are you Europe pleas. Thanks. - Original Message - From: Dave Ashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com; expert@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 2:57 AM Subject: [newbie] Willing to help bring

[newbie] Install HP iPaq

2005-03-11 Thread Noel McG.
Hello, I have an HP iPAQ 2200 which when I connect to Linux is detected in Control Panel/Hardware/Other devices. However I do not know which software prog to use. Any suggestions as to how to get this up and working please. Thanks. Want to

[newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely

2005-03-11 Thread Graham Watkins
Morning All, There's been a strange turn of events with Amorok in the last couple of days. Every time I try to add a track to the playlist it won't accept it. There is a message in the bottom left hand corner Some URLs could not be added. Of course this means that I can't use it at all. I've

Re: [newbie] Amorok - Behaving Strangely

2005-03-11 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Morning All, There's been a strange turn of events with Amorok in the last couple of days. Every time I try to add a track to the playlist it won't accept it. There is a message in the bottom left hand corner Some URLs could not be added. Of course this means that I can't

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 11 Mar 2005 22:44, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 11 March 2005 04:46 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 11 Mar 2005 21:33, Ronald J. Hall wrote: The Plextor is in the master position, secondary IDE channel. It has hdc=ide-scsi in /etc/lilo.conf. Right there if you have a 2.6

Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype

2005-03-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 02:57, Dave Ashmore wrote: Hello all. I'd like to take this chance to offer to bring a new user up to speed on Mandrake. I don't consider myself an expert but would like to give a little back to a community where I've learned so much about linux. So, If someone needs