[newbie] Can not compose mails

2005-03-14 Thread Tahir Abdullah
Hi all Today I am finding a strange problem. When I open my university E-Mail page it opens my INBOX but as soon as I press compose but it closes all the browsers windows. The same was happening with hotmail but now it opened first time and I am writing this mail I don't know whether I would be

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be unmounted and will not

Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver

2005-03-14 Thread Charles Rodgers
Hi All, Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Many thanks for the quick replies, Christopher, Carroll and Kaj. I'm now working on it :-) I'll let you know how I get on. Charles

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

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the advantage of Skype over GnomeMeeting? I've spoken to a

[newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver

2005-03-14 Thread Graham
Don Gregory wrote: Anybody tried the new 1.0-7167 driver yet? I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: Athlon XP2700 512 Mb Ram GeForce 4 Ti 4600 kernel Mandrake 2.6.10-1mdk I could not install from the installer as it could not find the sources. I could not install with

[newbie] urgent help - external hd stuff up

2005-03-14 Thread Andrewd
OK I have stuffed up I had an old 80g hd hanging around so I bought an external hd to plug it into the computer via the USB as a removable hd. Anyway I went to partitions within mandrake config selected - it had hda and sda so on the sda I selected create It appears to have moved the usr

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

2005-03-14 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by all this. What exactly is the

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 08:50, Graham wrote: I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: I was about to copy your message to the person on the kde list, but then saw that you had already done so. (I hadn't spotted that it was the same person asking on both lists :-) ).

Re: [newbie] Unable to find dvd+rw-format executable

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 05:29, rikona wrote: I just burned a few non-crucial photos to CD using k3b, to give to someone else. I did a quick drag and drop, and a slightly different sets of options seemed to come up, and in this window was an option to do a binary compare. I selected it and it

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread SnapafunFrank
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be

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

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Ashmore
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help. Skype: djash34 I'm somewhat puzzled by

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

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 10:42, Dave Ashmore wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm here and have a few minutes before I get started on my home project. Give me a call if you need some help.

[newbie] ?Conflict ? with video applications in KDE

2005-03-14 Thread Hugh Dixon
I suspect this may be a KDE problem, but... I am running under the latest mdk 10.0 with kde. The applications I'm running are kdetv and kaffeine. My problem is that after running kaffeine I cannot get video to appear in kdetv without restarting KDE. I suspect there is a conflict or something

[newbie] ?Conflict ? with video applications in KDE

2005-03-14 Thread Hugh Dixon
I suspect this may be a KDE problem, but... I am running under the latest mdk 10.1 with kde. The applications I'm running are kdetv and kaffeine. My problem is that after running kaffeine I cannot get video to appear in kdetv without restarting KDE. I suspect there is a conflict or something

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver

2005-03-14 Thread Graham
Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 08:50, Graham wrote: I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. My box is: Could you add this info to the TWiki, on http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo under the NVidia section, please? Done Anne, hope this works for others

[newbie] Enlarging / partition

2005-03-14 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All How can I enlarge the / partition? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

2005-03-14 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR and Bluetooth. I have used bluetooth quite a lot and the connection to Linux is

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

2005-03-14 Thread Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:34 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype On Saturday 12 Mar 2005 17:44, Dave Ashmore wrote: Ok I'm

[newbie] Which package contains GTK+ 1.2 or higher in 10.1

2005-03-14 Thread Antony Paul
Hi all, I tried to compile gcvs availiable from wincvs.org. While configuring it is saying that checking for GTK - version = 1.2.0... no *** The gtk-config script installed by GTK could not be found *** If GTK was installed in PREFIX, make sure PREFIX/bin is in *** your path, or set the

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk Is what is installed here now Dennis. Is that the

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

2005-03-14 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:42, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (snip) Good question, and I would be interested in the answer as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC to Phone calls be made for free under GnomeMeeting?

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk

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

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 13:42, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:34 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Willing to help bring someone up to speed on Mandrake via Skype On

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

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:18, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 14:42, Tango Echo wrote: -Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (snip) Good question, and I would be interested in the answer as well... Correct me if I'm wrong here, but can PC

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH libk3b1-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk k3b-dvd-0.11.9-0.092.1mdk

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because the device appears to be

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 10:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 09:10 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:06 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 15:10, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 11:47 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: There is an additional package for K3b called K3B-dvd or some such and you need it to be able to burn DVDs. HTH

Re: [newbie] K3b help?

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 17:48, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thanks Anne. I'm sure some of the difference reflected there is because I'm still using v9.2 and I think you're on 10.x, right? Versions, yes, but I would think you still need the packages. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302

[newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to leave using 'ctrl+alt+backspace' to log with another

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread SOTL
On Monday 14 March 2005 14:01, Michel Leunen wrote: Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 20:01, Michel Leunen wrote: Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop and no icons and I have to

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. -- Michel Leunen http://www.leunen.com/ mailto: see my homepage

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread eric jackson
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:18:24 +0100, Michel Leunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SOTL wrote: Please supply info on usual components. Equipment make video card et. Linux Distribution and version et. Mandrake 10.0 updated regularly. I don't think the card installed matter. You didn't say if you had a

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login tool. Typing startx from a command prompt doesn't launch KDE. Actually, the X server is launched. I

[newbie] login manager

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Leunen
Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to enable/disable users in the login window: Try kcontrol System Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there. What is the name of this Login manager? The one to type in a terminal. Since I've lost kde, I use

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical

Re: [newbie] login manager

2005-03-14 Thread Dan Gordon
On March 14, 2005 04:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. I run any and all KDE apps from XFCE, that should not be any problem.

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:28, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: X isn't the problem as he can log into another windowmanagerit's kde that's for sure. I hadn't realised about XFCE when I sent it, but you're right, of course. Optionally he can start a kde-app (say konqueror) from a console and check what

Re: [newbie] login manager

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:44, Dan Gordon wrote: On March 14, 2005 04:13 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: kcontrol is a kde app, so you won't be able to do it from XFCE I think, but you could try, if you have kde installed. The login manager is one sub-section under kcontrol. I run any and all KDE

Re: [newbie] login manager

2005-03-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Monday 14 March 2005 22:04, Michel Leunen wrote: Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to enable/disable users in the login window: Try kcontrol System Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there. What is the name of this Login manager? The

Re: [newbie] Re: Nokia 6800 connection

2005-03-14 Thread Amy
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 06:34:57 -0500, Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 13 March 2005 18:16, Amy wrote: If anyone else is reading this, and has any experience with Nokias directly, I'd appriciate it if you'd comment and let me know. Thanks! I have a Nokia 6600. It has IR

[newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Kaj Haulrich
You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Linux (Mandrake 10.1) - kernel 2.6.8*

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread frengoGorgia
Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 11:23, SnapafunFrank ha scritto: Er I tried reading man: fstab and that made no sense, searched for 'fstab howto' and 'fstab samples' and only got enter into fstab the following so does anyone know of any online howto ~ explanations of the /etc/fstab

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Monday 14 March 2005 05:35 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. By the Gods, Kaj - don't give them ideas! :-) --

[newbie] Strange host name

2005-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Ashmore
Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ?

Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name

2005-03-14 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 14 March 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ?

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread frengoGorgia
Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 23:35, Kaj Haulrich ha scritto: You won't believe this : http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5ObjectID=10115247 I wonder when Microsoft will take out a patent on the alphabet. Kaj Haulrich. http://www.forbes.com/billionaires/2005/03/09/bill05land.html

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores
- Original Message - From: frengoGorgia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Monday, March 14, 2005 3:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 23:35, Kaj Haulrich ha scritto: You won't believe this :

Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 08:28 am, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As the Merovingio said: Disappointing... but not unexpected. Greetings, Fernando Gomez. Give my regards to the Broad Street. Does it mean the doomsday for OpenOffice? -- Fajar Priyanto | Reg'd Linux User #327841 |

Re: [newbie] Cleaning optical mouse

2005-03-14 Thread Fajar Priyanto
On Monday 14 March 2005 12:38 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:59:41 -0600, Chris wrote: Question is, how is this mouse cleaned? Do I clean the lens on the bottom? If so, with what? I've had a MS optical mouse for at least 3 years and have never had to clean it, although I blow

RE: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML

2005-03-14 Thread Hugh Dixon
-Original Message- From: Fajar Priyanto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:00 AM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Microsoft to patent XML It is *only* word-processing document stored in a single XML file. (I've been working on a system

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1- NVidia 1.0-7167 driver

2005-03-14 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 18:50:03 +1000 Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Gregory wrote: Anybody tried the new 1.0-7167 driver yet? I successfully installed the 1.0-7167 driver today. Following your hints, I did too; but for me it wasn't necessary to edit /etc/inittab: I just opened a

[newbie] reading Troff document

2005-03-14 Thread Angus Auld
Greetings, could some kind soul tell me what program I can use to read Troff documents? A friend of mine has a Mac, and they have sent me a couple documents that I have thus far been unable to read. Is Troff a Mac proprietary format? TIA for any assistance on this. Best regards. --Angus Let

Re: [newbie] Signature Randomizer

2005-03-14 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 13 March 2005 17:54, Dave Ashmore wrote: Chris wrote: On Saturday 12 March 2005 09:09 pm, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am wondering if there is a signature randomizer for Linux similar to KookieJar for Windows. Thank you, Yes, its

[newbie] Wireless adapter

2005-03-14 Thread Teilhard Knight
I have this laptop I bought me recently, and the wireless adapter driver fails to install. I get the error message when I select to configure a wireless connection: Driver ath_pci failed on /usr/bin/perl-install/modules.pm line 302. Do you think I have any hope to put this adapter (Atheros

[newbie] another urpmi query

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan
when a normal update gets interrupted the partial downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, and then the packages won't install because of these missing partials. What's the preferred way of dealing with this? thanks -- Julie

Re: [newbie] another urpmi query

2005-03-14 Thread Smiley
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when a normal update gets interrupted the partial downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, and then the packages won't install because of these missing partials. What's the preferred way of dealing

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Erylon Hines
On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No taskbar, no panel, no desktop | and no icons and I have

Re: [newbie] another urpmi query

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan
On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:01 am, Smiley wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when a normal update gets interrupted the partial downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, and then the packages won't install because of these

[newbie] --noclean

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan
how would I go about making the --noclean option default for urpmi'ing, so I don't have to remember to add it each time I d/l a program? ty -- Julie Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Julie Sloan
when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as http://ftp.kddilabs.jp/Mozilla/firefox/releases/1.0.1/linux-i686/en-US/ but when I tried to add this (up to the first slash before

[newbie] re: SSHD

2005-03-14 Thread Mrexecutive
Hello Guys, I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up? Sorry im a newbie!

Re: [newbie] urpmi firefox

2005-03-14 Thread Amy
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:47:00 -0500, Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when I urpmi firefox it wants to give me -0.8 instead of the new -1.0.1. I've been to the website and looked at the 1.0.1 rpm, which gives its location as

Re: [newbie] re: SSHD

2005-03-14 Thread Duncan Anderson
Mrexecutive wrote: Hello Guys, I installed SSHD but forgot how to start it or can someone show me how to put it in the autoexec file for linux so it does it upon start up? Sorry im a newbie! Go into the Mandrake Control Centre (Configure Your Computer) and go into the

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: The current actually working is that I can plug in a flash drive - wait a moment - and the files become accessible to and from it. That is sometimes! At other times I'm sure I'm doing damage because

Re: [newbie] devfs and udev

2005-03-14 Thread SnapafunFrank
frengoGorgia wrote: Il lun, 2005-03-14 alle 11:23, SnapafunFrank ha scritto: Er I tried reading man: fstab and that made no sense, searched for 'fstab howto' and 'fstab samples' and only got enter into fstab the following so does anyone know of any online howto ~ explanations

Re: [ml] [newbie] Strange host name

2005-03-14 Thread SnapafunFrank
Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 02:51 pm, Dave Ashmore wrote: Aron Smith wrote: When booting up I got this message host brian.cede.psu found Checking the etc/host.allow dosn't show that name neither does etc/host.deny what's going on ?

Re: [newbie] another urpmi query

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 05:31, Julie Sloan wrote: On Tuesday 15 March 2005 12:01 am, Smiley wrote: On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:44:05 -0500 Julie Sloan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when a normal update gets interrupted the partial downloads seem to get stuck in /var/cache/urpmi/partial, and

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 15 Mar 2005 05:41, Erylon Hines wrote: On Monday 14 March 2005 11:01 am, Michel Leunen wrote: | Some weeks ago, I lost Konqueror and had to reinstall the whole KDE. | Now, it's the KDE desktop which disappeared suddenly when trying to log | in. The desktop just doesn't show up. No

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop disappeared

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 20:39, Michel Leunen wrote: eric jackson wrote: You didn't say if you had a command prompt or not. If you do have the command line, did you try startx? No prompt, I use mdkKDM to login. It's the Mandrake graphical login tool. Typing startx from a command prompt

Re: [newbie] login manager

2005-03-14 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 14 Mar 2005 21:04, Michel Leunen wrote: Sometimes ago, Anne wilson told me to use the Mandrake login manager to enable/disable users in the login window: Try kcontrol System Login Manager and check whether the user is enabled there. What is the name of this Login manager? The