Re: [newbie]RealPlayer

2001-03-27 Thread Altoine B
marcia wrote: Dear All, Thank you so much for your help. I downloaded the bin file and that installed fine and then Roman's instructions from the archives set it up perfectly in the Netscape Preferences. I wanted realplayer for 8 months, so thank you all very much. I am a happy camper,

Re: [newbie] I can't enter X

2001-03-27 Thread Altoine B
Past a few days Now I know how to fix the fonts problem but I still don't know how how to put X working. Can anyone help me? From your config files, it appears that your refresh rate (20-270 MHz) is out of the range of your monitor's capabilities. And also, you are running X 4.0.1.

Re: [newbie] Installing src.rpm

2001-03-27 Thread Altoine B
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! It's the first time i do this... i've got Bastille as a source rpm. I've run rpm "--rebuild" with no errors but now i don't know what to do O8-) Thankx! -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395

Re: [newbie] Installing src.rpm

2001-03-27 Thread Altoine B
That's it. Thanks! ;-) -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 11407395 Joan.Tur.pagina.de www.ClubIbosim.org Linux: usuari registrat 190.783 De nada. -- .--. ` |__| .---. Altoine Barker |=.| |.-.| Maximum Time, Inc |--|

Re: [newbie] I can't enter X

2001-03-26 Thread Altoine B
Well, hear goes my XF86Config, XFree86.9.log and XFree86.0.log. The option "non-interlaced svga" at 800x600 (16 bits) makes the same that the others. My video card is an S3 Virge Dx/Gx. Now I'm receiving also an error related to the X fonts server "Could not init fonts path

Re: [newbie] Apache

2001-03-24 Thread Altoine B
Stefaans Mostert wrote: FreezeR wrote: or apachectl start man apachectl ! On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Stefaans Mostert wrote: OOPS!! that is #/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd start Tnx never knew that! Stefaans or /sbin/service httpd start -- .--. ` |__| .---. Altoine

Re: [newbie] I can't enter X

2001-03-24 Thread Altoine B
Stefaans Mostert wrote: Miguel Gomes Domingos wrote: - Original Message - From: Stefaans Mostert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 5:37 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] I can't enter X Miguel Gomes Domingos wrote: I use mandrake

Re: [newbie] X Windows Crash!

2001-02-22 Thread Altoine B.
Dave Esquer wrote: I have installed Mandrake7.2 on my machine. The install was great, and the overall feel much better than RedHat7, my compliments! All of the applications and KDE2.0 and Gnome 1.2 are a real plus to a newbie like me! My machine lost power in a snowstorm. It rebooted and

Re: [newbie] Ran KDE 2.1 twice; now X is dead

2001-02-21 Thread Altoine B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I updated from KDE 2.0 to 2.0.1. It just didn't work, so I figured I may as well try 2.1. So I did, and it worked great. But after running 2.1 twice, X is dead (which may very well be a coincidence). I can't run KDE, Gnome, or anything else. This is what

Re: [newbie] Netscape question

2001-02-20 Thread Altoine B.
Michael wrote: Hello, I'm using Mandrake 7.1 and shortly after install, Netscape stopped rendering document and table backgrounds/colors. It works fine, it's just that I'm working on a site and it would be nice to see the outcome. Can I just reinstall it from the RPM's and if so, do I

Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
April wrote: That sounds exactly like what I need, thank you very much, but it didn't work. :/ I tried hitting ctrl + alt + -, and nothing happened. Maybe I'm in a funky dialog? - Original Message - From: dejavu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday,

Re: [newbie] GRUB configuration

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
Emilio Correa wrote: Hi, I want to know if exist some tool for configuring grub options, for example how to include another operative system (win2k or win95). thanks!! - Ing. Qco. Emilio Correa Invap S.E. 02944 422121

Re: [newbie] FTP Server(Revised)

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
Doug here again how do you install the ftp server I'm glad you asked. ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/7.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/wu-ftpd-2.6.1-7mdk.i586.rpm that should download the needed server rpm. It should automatically add itself to your startup after

Re: [newbie] winmodems, cdrw and dvd

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
abe wrote: I just got Xine working last night. I had to use a raw device for it. Check out the FAQ on thier website for how to do it. Good luck! Abe goldenpi wrote: I got it. Unfortunatly, it doesn't work. I put in a dvd, press the control on xine labeled dvd, and nothing

Re: [newbie] error mounting drives (already mounted)

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
Paul Rodrguez wrote: Sorry to repost. But I thought maybe I should clarify my question. How can I unmount _all_ filesystems? Also, how can I make sure they are all unmount when I start my system? : ) Thanks. -Paul R -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] FTP Server(Revised) Success!!!

2001-02-19 Thread Altoine B.
Douglas stewart wrote: The conclusion! Success! I had to install python xinetd wu-ftpd and now it works. Thanks very much to all that responded :- Doug Stewart Great! Dependencies, dependencies tsktsktsk.LoL -- .--. ` |__| .---. Altoine Barker |=.|

Re: [newbie] Help !!! New Kernel-2.4.1,

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
Lucio Costa wrote: Hi Folks !!! I have an AMD K6 III, 400MHz, 128 RAM; Video Card Voodoo III AGP PCI CARD (SCSI)- HD HP 2.1Gb;(scsi) | CDROM Matshita CR-508 (scsi) | CDRW YAMAHA CRW4260 (scsi) 1- HD 8.1 (only Mandrake)

Re: [newbie] How do you tar /usr/share/apps

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
Hi everybody, I'm a bit stuck with the tar commands. I would like to tar the entire path: /usr/share/apps Can some one help? -- Roman tar -cfz tarfilename /usr/share/apps/* -- .--. ` |__| .---. Altoine Barker |=.| |.-.| Maximum Time, Inc |--|

Re: [newbie] No Internet access 2

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
DRX wrote: if you're abroad :o( .) a few times, inclluding Suse installs. Try and configure what I did, nothing worked. When doing a fresh install everything worked fine (not always) a sort of a lottery:o( Being logged in at the isp apparently had nought to do with it, it's internal

Re: [newbie] No Internet access 2

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
"H.J.Bathoorn" wrote: On Sunday 18 February 2001 21:07, you wrote: DRX wrote: if you're abroad :o( .) a few times, inclluding Suse installs. Try and configure what I did, nothing worked. When doing a fresh install everything worked fine (not always) a sort of a lottery:o(

Re: [newbie] Xine and dvd playback

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
abe wrote: I'm trying to get dvd playback working here in mandrake 7.2. I found a version of xine that includes the css plugin for playing back decrypted dvds. It installed fine. I made /dev/hdc link to /dev/dvd and made a mount point at /mnt/dvd I can mount the dvd's and browse their

Re: [newbie] sndconfig

2001-02-18 Thread Altoine B.
petzhouse private wrote: Can I figure out something from this no. But I DO know a way to just restart everything. After several temper tantrums and mentals breakdowns do the following: 1. Insert the linux mandrake cd-rom (or installation media if it is not a cd-rom) 2. Boot the

Re: [newbie] want my linux work faster and networking

2001-02-17 Thread Altoine B.
Paul Rodrguez wrote: What do you mean by their own safety? -Paul R He means that Microsoft, by default when html is enabled, executes any scripts embedded in a html email message. The extension "vbs" is a Visual Basic scripting language file, standard and embedded in most of all of M$

Re: [newbie] Auto-Install Modules on bootup?

2001-02-12 Thread Altoine B
I don't have that file, Al. All I have is /etc/conf.modules Is that the one you are referring to? ...or is it a different file? It looks very cryptic. What's with all the "alias", "pre-install", and "options" statements? That is it. . o O (Intriguing?) Strange that it is written

Re: SV: [newbie] SV: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-10 Thread Altoine B
*** Correction*** kernel 2.2.x and up to the current kernel beta has RAID support enabled by default for mdk package versions. From the ?!?! **??** What does "?!?!" mean? Is it an emoticon like an exclamation of bewilderment, confusion, shock, disbelief, or conternation? If I

Re: [newbie] win98 freezes after 7.2 install

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now my windows 98 seems to pause for about 20 seconds at certain times. I'm not sure whether its mandrake or not, maybe its something to do with the boot loader. Did you defrag your windows harddrive before you partitioned it

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have two options. Fix it manually or reformat. I was thinking of reformating because I have so much junk up in here: installing things, meeting dependencies or trying to install things and trying to meet dependencies. A few little things like the

Re: [newbie] SV: [newbie] Kernel questions

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
soory to e-mail you but how the hell do i stop all these linux e-mail's **Interrupt*** Create a filter to send any mail withou an "Re:" to the trash. LOL Next select only those subjects that interrest you. Delete the rest. All will be fine after that. If it is too much of a task to

Re: [newbie] Deleting Netscape lock file--how?

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You usually get that error when netscape crashes. Netscape puts that lock file in there so that two people don't use the same config files as the same time. Anyways, to fix it just remove the lockfile, "rm ~/.netscape/lock" when Netscape isn't running, and then

Re: [newbie] Jump from 2.2.14 to 2.4.x kernel?

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I jump straight from kernel 2.2.14 to 2.4.x, or do I need to do it in increments? TIA... -DM Jump. Incremental jumps are educational but unnecessary. -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'|

Re: [newbie] Is there a way to access ext2 or ReiserFS from windows?

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
yes, do a google search for ex2plorer you will have better results with download.com ==Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'| |__|~')_(' http://www.maximumtime.com __ Get your own

Re: [newbie] Auto-Install Modules on bootup?

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm another LM newbie, new to the list. I am not real clear on how to get my HP OfficeJet 700 drivers loaded and usable, and don't know how to find out if they are active. I've checked various sources, and being a Windows-weaned Linux newbie, I am having

Re: [newbie] Huge swap file!!!

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
What happened was that you didn't configure your "extra" drive space. By default, linux sets any new partiton as either blank (nonGUI), or SWAP (GUI). What you will have to do, is to do it all again but to make sure that you don't specify the partition for anything (unmounted). If it is to be

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-09 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you so much for your reply, and I would do that as I have seen it for he has posted it in several places; except for (okay, this is really embarrassing) that I don't seem to have a supermount.o module. I remember an automount choice in the config, but

Re: Re[8]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2001-02-08 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, 2.4.1 running with the nvidia .96 drivers. All is well, AFAIK. Time will tell about the files structures. Still no automount. I guess I'll mess with the patch in the future (maybe later). My son wants me to cut his hair now (as I am a person of many

Re: RE: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-08 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll bite. How do we complie it for optimization? I am interested in doing this also. Moose Excuse the long delay Moose, but netscape was down for a good while. This happens one more time and I'm going to send this list to one of my other email accounts! Ok

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-07 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, I have kernel, but when I give your command (rpm --rebuild kernel-2.4.1-3mdk.src.rpm) him, she does not do anything, it says that it creates a conflict with librerias of kde, that I can do? you can say... thanks step by step to me. juank download

Re: [newbie] Windows Font in Mandrake

2001-02-07 Thread Altoine B
did you make the changes to the right X server config files? What version are you running? If it is X 3.3.x, XF86Config is your man. X 4.0.1, XF86Config-4 is the guy, and if it is X 4.0.2, /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 is your true love. --Al [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have remove "FontPath

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-07 Thread Altoine B
Yes, they pulled it but I don't think that was the governing factor. When I had went back to the site, I noticed that it was missing. Strange enough, that kernel-linus2.whatever turned out to have kernel-2.4.1-3mdk tucked inside! What a trip! In either case, the kernel-linus or just plain

Re: [newbie] DrakFont

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
If you installed your linux from a disc and you still have it near you, you can reinstall drakfont on your computer after you do my fix that I had posted earlier. You have to do the "fix" first, because reinstalling drakfont. I take that back, try it and let us all know if that works.

Re: [newbie] lpr: : temp file write error

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I cannot print on a printer attatched to a computer which uses Linux mandrake 7.0. I get the following error: lpr: : temp file write error I cannot print even as root. The problem araised while using kghostview Any ideas? Thanks in

Re: [newbie] CNET reviews top 7 linux distro's

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there was a post a couple of days ago asking about the various distro of linux. I stumbled on this and thought it might be interesting... http://linux.cnet.com/linux/0-2136864-7-1473248.html?tag=st.lx.1518529.bpg.2 136864-7-1473248 That is the

Re: [newbie] GRUB customization

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
You don't have to switch anything around to have your windows partition as the default. Just open up "DrakConf" and click on "Tools for booting". Choose "Configure LILO/GRUB". Click on your windows partition and choose "Default". Click "Ok" and save. You are now good to go. Cheers, -- Al --

Re: RE: [newbie] Kernel Sanders

2001-02-06 Thread Altoine B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I'll bite. How do we complie it for optimization? I am interested in doing this also. Moose Give me a moment. I'm administrating my website and that topic will take me a little while to properly put together. But you will thank me. smile Cheers, -- Al

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-05 Thread Altoine B
xf86config, xf86cfg, and XFree86 -configure -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'| |__|~')_(' http://www.maximumtime.com __ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-05 Thread Altoine B
Better yet, don't use xf86config as I have problems with it also. Use xf86cfg and XFree86 -configure, instead. I did a locate and I found xf86cfg to be located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg Cheers, -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'|

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-05 Thread Altoine B
Better yet, don't use xf86config as I have problems with it also. Use xf86cfg and XFree86 -configure, instead. I did a locate and I found xf86cfg to be located in /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86cfg Cheers, -- Al -- .--. ` |__| .---. |=.| |.-.| |--| ||ABORT|| | | |'-'|

Re: [newbie] How do i configure my xfree86

2001-02-05 Thread Altoine B
As for your kernel, let us see if we can't pass any command line boot commands. When it shows your linux booting up, hit the "F1" key. type in vga, or vgalo and hit me back I got this tip from another subject on this list. Cheers, -- Al xf86config, xf86cfg, and XFree86 -configure --