[newbie] Nebula DigiTV

2004-10-25 Thread Andrew Tuson
Does this digital TV card work with Linux 10? When I use the TV Card control tool in Manrake Control Centre I select Nebula DigiTV in the card model area and Auto-detect in the tuner type area. When it starts tuning a console window pops up and then disappears after about 1 second. Is there

[newbie] OpenOffice.org starts in different language!

2004-10-24 Thread Andrew Konosky
I installed OpenOffice during the installation, and everything else installed with English as the default languae, but for some reason open office opens in something thats similar to spanish. I went to the language setting and tried different versions of English EUA, Canada, Australia, etc,

[newbie] Sound DVD problems

2004-10-01 Thread Andrew Konosky
I can't seem to get my sound to work on my old computer. I did a fresh install of Mandrake 10.1 community, but the sound doesn't work. I had this same problem under Debian 3.1 on this same computer. The chip is just an onboard Creative PCI128 and uses the kernel module es1371. I was trying to

[newbie] Updating the system after install

2004-09-30 Thread Andrew Konosky
Hello, I just downloaded the 1st install CD of Mandrake 10.1 community because I wanted to try out this distro. I have an old computer that some other distros seemed to have some trouble with, but MandrakeMove booted fine from CD, so I deciced to try the full OS on it. Since I only installed

[newbie] Mutt and Procmail...blah

2004-06-25 Thread Andrew Rice
filters as well but apparently im not doing something right. I have looked at many other sample .muttrc files and all that and still cannot get it to work HELP!! -- .-. | Andrew Rice Jr | [EMAIL PROTECTED]| .| http

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-22 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 13:38, Mike Adolf wrote: size of the second partition) BUT I FOR GOT TO RECOMPILE and was running the same a.out. Dah! Oops- that is embarrassing! :) Happens to us all sometimes... Thanks for you time. No problem at all- glad you found the problem! A.

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-21 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:17, Mike Adolf wrote: FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5 5.8G 2.4G 3.2G 43% /

Re: [newbie] Checking disk size from C

2004-05-20 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 07:57, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 19 May 2004 19:48:18 -0400 Mike Adolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The numbers don't add up. What am I missing? I'm running 10.0 CE. Yeah- your numbers are way off. Could we see the program which generated those results? printf(

Re: [newbie] two Ximian Evolution questions

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 21:54, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: Is there a way to make Evolution download mail on startup? And is it Not as far as I'm aware. possible to make a distribution list with a number of names in one list in the contacts list? Yes- definitely. Just go into your contacts and

Re: [newbie] two Ximian Evolution questions

2004-05-13 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 17:48, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: night, but I can't find a way to make it Evo fetch mail on start up yet If you don't find a way, might be worth taking a look at the KDE mail client called 'Kontact'. I don't use it but I've heard very good things and I've just located a 'check

Re: [newbie] xmms only plays when started in CLI

2004-05-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 18:43, C. Tresenriter wrote: If I go through startmultimediasound, xmms will load up and after entering the URL for the stream, it buffers the looks like it's playing - it shows a stereo signal and the address - but there's no sound and the timer stays at zero. In

Re: [newbie] urpmi --noclean

2004-04-28 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 07:59, Job Evers wrote: Is there a way I can enable the --noclean option permanently? You can set the global options in /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg and they should always be used. Cleaning options are set with global booleans. See 'man urpmi.cfg' for more information. A.

Re: [newbie] data loss - what's happening

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 21:25, Weiers Coetser wrote: I'm running Mandrake 9.2 in a dual boot set-up with Windows. Same here. On at least three occasions I've lost some of my working documents in the process of rebooting. When I log out the Open Office Documents are open, but when I log on

Re: [newbie] RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3

2004-04-20 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 09:20, Stephen Reynolds wrote: I've found a local mirror that's working and want to add the appropriate rpms directories using urpmi. What is the difference between the RPMS, RPMS2 RPMS3 directories? RPMS is the main rpm repository for the distribution. This is where all

Re: [newbie] ATI Radeon 9000Pro

2004-04-19 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 17:00, Lanman wrote: Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 20 April 2004 17:12, Lanman wrote: Here's the down-side. I can't run the Radeon in 3D Accelerated mode. If I try to select the XFree86 with 3D Acceleration, the

Re: [newbie] Backing up files.

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 23:46, Marc wrote: Well my upgrade to ML 10.0 official was not a total success. It looks like I will have to do a clean installation from scratch. I haven't tried the upgrade option recently but I've had limited success with it in the past. In a way it's fair enough-

Re: [newbie] My browsers suffers from Altzheimer

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:05, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 00:39, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Well Stephen, how do you view web pages without a browser ? links or lynx Sorry to be pedantic but just to correct this before it ends up in the archives: lynx is a browser! It is text based but

Re: [newbie] My browsers suffers from Altzheimer

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 15:08, Kaj Haulrich wrote: magazines are, displays articles from march 15.th ! - Only when I reload the page it seems to get updated. Funny. Do any of you have Hmm, on checking, I am seeing links from march as well, and reloading the page doesn't help. I'm on mdk 9.2.

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 23:19, John Richard Smith wrote: cd /mnt/win_c2/downloads2 downloads2]# ls -a ./ dnloads/ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso* ../ .Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download-CD1.i586.iso.segments* I've no idea why there is a '.' at the start of these file

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-09 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Fri, 2004-04-09 at 11:52, John Richard Smith wrote: if I transfered the file to an ext2 file system situation I could then reset the icon attributes of the iso file ? and if so what part to chattr would do that do you think ? or am I barking up the wrong tree I'm pretty sure chattr is

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:38, John Richard Smith wrote: How may one change file attributes ? 'chmod' for file access access permissions ('man chmod' for details), for other (more obscure, less advisable to play with) attributes, try 'man chattr'. and how do you unhide hidden files ( the .file

Re: [newbie] Changing file attributes

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 19:03, Andrew Archibald wrote: The period that proceeds the filename is to indicate that it is to be hidden during normal browsing- for settings etc. This hiding isn't due It is perhaps worth noting that the period is in fact *part of* the filename. My wording was a little

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:23, Arys P. Deloso wrote: Can anyone point me to the right direction in creating/editing a text file with UTF-8 encoding? Any of the applications listed at: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#apps although UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for

Re: [newbie] How to create UTF-8 encoded text files?

2004-04-08 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:34, Andrew Archibald wrote: although UTF-8 support is now a pretty standard feature for most well-maintained packages so I'd try your favourite editor! Normally it is a setting in the menus. For instance, in KWrite: View- Set Encoding- Unicode (utf8) As ever

Re: [newbie] Totem

2004-04-06 Thread Andrew Archibald
It has been almost 24 hours and I haven't seen this appear, while other mail has been getting through fine, so here it is again: --Forwarded Message-- From: Andrew Archibald [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie Mdk list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Totem Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 14:26:53 +0100

Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?

2004-04-05 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 15:31, frankieh wrote: I have next to no knowledge of making rpms, but if nobody with more experiance pops up their heads and volenteers.. I will give it a shot and make it publically available.. Interestingly a story about the latest version of XPde has cropped up on

Re: [newbie] foo, master foo

2004-04-04 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 16:57, Thujan wrote: Can somebody explain what these terms means, foo, foo bar, You might want to check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable Archie. Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Mandrake RPM for XPde?

2004-04-04 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 17:36, The Other wrote: Does 'checkinstall' make actual RPMs? Yes, it does indeed. because I was under the impression 'checkinstall' will make an RPM entry into Mandrake's Software Manager section so everything can be removed from the Uninstall Packages menus. (I'm

RE: [newbie] MDK 10 and Drakconnect

2004-03-22 Thread andrew . lundy
If you have problems try it this way... - Firmware (mgmt.o) in /usr/share/speedtouch/ (ALREADY DONE) - Run through dragconnect wizard and put all your ISP details in (PROBABLY ALREADY DONE) - Goto command line and type: /usr/share/speedtouch/speedtouch.sh start -

[newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors

2004-03-18 Thread andrew . lundy
Hi all, I've been reading around the Internet about these errors I've been getting while using urpmi, and the general feeling is that it's a bug in Mandrake 9.2. Anyway, I'd just like to clarify this before I do anything stupid... Basically, I've installed MDK 9.2 from the discs one and two,

RE: [newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors

2004-03-18 Thread andrew . lundy
Excellent. Thanks Derek, I'll check that out. -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2004 11:17 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] To Clarify urpmi Errors On Thursday 18 Mar 2004 10:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've been

[newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread andrew . lundy
Hello people, There is an abundance of software available for Linux, which is great, but I don't have time to look through it all at the moment. So I was hoping you could recommend me some of the best (or THE best) software for the following things for MDK: - Movie player. - MP3 player.

RE: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2

2004-03-15 Thread andrew . lundy
That's because Gnome wins hands down. Heheheheh. By the way, what is the best text editor? Chuckle... -Original Message- From: JoeHill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 March 2004 14:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Software Recommendations MDK 9.2 On Mon, 15 Mar 2004

[newbie] RPM Package Installation Issue

2004-03-12 Thread andrew . lundy
Hi, I recently updated all my links for the MDK 9.2 software packages and updates to the UK Canterbury FTP site using urpmi. However, when I try to install some of the packages on the list it gives me an error like The following packages... ... have bad signatures, continue to install? I was

[newbie] Mandrake Control Center Down

2004-03-11 Thread andrew . lundy
Hi, When I go to start Mandrake Control Center or click Configure My Computer it prompts me for the root password and after that it just hangs on the splash and just says Loading... please wait at the bottom, but never actually loads. It had worked fine previously. I'm not sure this has anything

RE: [newbie] Fixes CD

2004-03-11 Thread andrew . lundy
Ah, interesting. Is there a way to specify that Mandrake gets normal software from the web as opposed to the installation CDs, because my installation CDs have ceased to work. Could anyone give me specific details/servers to input if so? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish

[newbie] Apollon (from plf) on mdk 9.2 won't run.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew Archibald
, Andrew. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Apollon (from plf) on mdk 9.2 won't run.

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew Archibald
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 12:44, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 06 Jan 2004 11:35 am, Andrew Archibald wrote: I have installed apollon from the penguin liberation front (plf) source but can't get it to run. Yes I had that problem too. Looks like the latest update broke it. When I checked

Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync

2003-11-24 Thread Andrew Mann
- Original Message - From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync On Friday 21 November 2003 06:05 pm, Andrew Mann wrote: I have just ripped a dvd using mplayer , which I have

[newbie] Fw: Mplayer sound out of sync

2003-11-21 Thread Andrew Mann
- Original Message - From: Andrew Mann To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: Mplayer sound out of sync I have just ripped a dvd using mplayer , which I have done many times before ok. but this time the picture is not in sync with the sound and i

[newbie] Apache permission problems

2003-03-24 Thread Andrew Miller
Having problems with file permissions and Apache on a Mandrake 9.0 box. Error message is: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /bookmarks2.htm on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.26 Server at mail.shadowdog.com Port 80 Permissions for the enclosing directories for the

Re: [newbie] VMWare Installation Questions

2003-03-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
kernel. Does anyone know where I would find these? thanks, Brian I had the same problem. You need the kernel header files which I think are on the installation CD2. Or I think you can use rpmdrake and click on the development option in the tree view. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Fuji finepix 2200 camera

2003-03-22 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
and find out. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] RAID configuration problems

2003-03-16 Thread Andrew Miller
Having big trouble trying to configure MDK 9.0 with a Promise IDE RAID. If there are drives attached to the the RAID controller, in this case a couple of Western Digital 80 giggers, the BIOS allows me to set up the RAID. However, the Mandrake 9.0 installer only sees two separate drives. It

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
I'm having probs also with mounting the CDROM even with supermount uncheked. Whenever I try I get nothing at all. It just wont read the CDROM! Tried typing the command as root to disable but it just comes back saying supermount: command not found Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] CDROM takes minutes to mount

2003-03-11 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] vmware hosting

2003-03-08 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
them both. I do not have an ethernet card but instead aiming to run as a virtual network. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] cd not working

2003-03-08 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
windows partion (which I want o ditch) and the reboot into linux and copy them across. Can anyone help!!! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
On Sunday 02 Mar 2003 3:31 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2003 07:01 am, Andrew Scotchmer wrote: Now don't get me wrong I love linux and have been with Mandrake since v6.0 though I must say in my opinion v9.0 is not one of it's best, perhaps, sorry, definately a bit hasty

[newbie] C header files

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] Where are these files please they are not in the directory it suggested [/usr/src/linux/include]. I've tried allsorts but with no luck. Thanks in advance Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Worried

2003-03-02 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
my choice of desktop. I hope this has made my stance clear, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] worried

2003-02-28 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
many apps into their installation cd's will convert new customers. Just my thought Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake so slow in a pentium 200

2003-02-26 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
also dual boot to Windows98 and that works perfectly. Maybe these larger chip sizes that companies keep telling us we MUST have make us forget how useful the older slower ones can still be! Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Problem with MDK v9 and Sound Blaster Live

2003-02-16 Thread Andrew Robert
Good evening everyone, I have a Dell Dimension 4550 series Pentium 4 2.4 GHz system configured to dual boot a fully patched MDK v9 and Windows XP Professional. The PCI Sound Blaster Live card installed on the system is not functioning under MDK v9. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get this

Re: [newbie] This is getting way out of hand

2003-02-15 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
of the IRA which america supported, funded and supplied military weapons to for decades??? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] ooopps lost X!!!

2003-02-09 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
and though I type startx nothing happens exept my X server crashing. This happens in all accounts including root. How can I get my X server back??? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] wine worries

2003-01-26 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
to be sure and now I get this message when trying to work with wine: wineserver: chdir /home/andrew/.wine: No such file or directory Anyone knows whats going on? Thanks Andrew PS: Anyone know where the C header files are located as I am trying to give VMware a test run, cheers. Want to buy

[newbie] MPEG2 to .AVI conversion

2003-01-25 Thread Andrew
Hello all, Is it possible to convert mpeg2 to .avi with any linux programme like mencoder Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] pppd keeps dieing!

2003-01-19 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all, Got a problem getting onto the internet. After entering the relevant account details and connecting to my ISP after about 30 secs I get the error message that says the pppd has died unexpectedly. Any help would be nice. Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

[newbie] IBM Deskstars in Mandrake 9.0 server

2003-01-06 Thread Andrew Miller
I built a server recently for web server, email server, file server and other uses and am running Mandrake 9.0 on it. I used a pair of 100 GB IBM Deskstars (120GXP's I believe). IBM is having problems with these drives failing and now recommends only using them 330 hours a month, something

[newbie] Mount

2002-12-02 Thread Andrew
. Statement; reading about mount, /ect/fstab/, ect/mtab, has left me without enough info. Queston; How do I go about reading and copying files from hda while in and using hdc? I thought it might be good to mount and read it from /home/xxx/ Mndk 8.2 KDE Andrew Want

Re: [newbie] sylpheed installation on Mandrake 8.1

2002-11-24 Thread Andrew
Wei, 0.85 0r .86 is the current stable ver. I found it (.85) more stable than .76. Andrew On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 17:41:44 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the previous mail without title I am trying to install sylpheed 0.7.6 on Mandrake 8.1. And I got

Re: [newbie] mozilla 1 on Mandrake 8.1 dependency problem

2002-11-24 Thread Andrew
Wei And All, I am a newbie but have reciently found rpm --rebuilddb to help after installing and making changes. Please let me know it this does not apply, here. Andrew On Sun, 24 Nov 2002 22:57:00 + Wei Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe this question should

[newbie] Japanese Language Problems

2002-11-16 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
of Linux AH SO! :) Andrew Scotchmer (san) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Java Woes in Galeon

2002-11-10 Thread Andrew Scotchmer
. Cheers Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: Configuring e-mail Web-url location

2002-09-27 Thread Andrew
On Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:56:09 -0400 Richard Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 01:54:25 -0400, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have found the greatest e-mail program sylpheed. It is a keeper, I've used it for a few hours and love it. One problem

Re: [newbie] Cannot install OpenOficce1.0

2002-09-26 Thread Andrew
Oyaji, There are no stupid questions! Write back If you need more help. Andrew On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 03:44:03 -0500 Todd Franklin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I cannot install OpenOffice1.0. Could possibly teach me how to install OpenOffice on my computer step

[newbie] Configuring e-mail Web-url location

2002-09-26 Thread Andrew
that work, but I want my Mozilla. It lists Mozilla as a choice but my new install of Mozilla is I guess in a different place. In KDE where do I look to point this web-url thingy to my new mozilla install? Mndrk 8.2 Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: [newbie] SNF

2002-09-03 Thread Andrew Burt
for friends), but HL has been known to be a tad picky (:P) net-code-wise, and it cant hurt opening the specific ports for a test... :) Dont know if thats any use to you, sorry if you felt I was talking down, GL with solving it. -Andrew Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 4:01:28 AM

Re[4]: [newbie] SNF

2002-09-03 Thread Andrew Burt
Hi shane, Wednesday, September 04, 2002, 1:45:55 PM, you wrote: s -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- s Hash: SHA1 s On Tuesday 03 September 2002 1:01 pm, Andrew Burt did speak unto the huddled s masses, saying: UDP 7002 -Half-Life Auth Server s well i had the others but didn't know about

[newbie] test

2002-08-18 Thread Andrew
this is a test Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] [Fwd: tv out for nvidia geforce 3 graphics card]

2002-08-18 Thread Andrew
---BeginMessage--- HOW DO YOU CONFIGURE THE XFREE86 CONFIGURE FILE TO MAKE TV OUT WORK ON AN NVIDIA GE-FORCE 3 GRAPHICS CARD. I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO PLAY DVD'S ON MY COMPUTER AND WATCH THEM ON MY TV , BUT ALSO KEEP THE MONITOR WORKING AS WELL. I HAVE ENTERED THE FOLLOEING LINES IN

[newbie] installing abiword probs

2002-07-23 Thread andrew
Before updating to mandrake 8.2 (prev 8.0) I use to run abi Word. On my new computer which I installed 8.2 on I decided to install Abi Word 1.02 now it is asking for libpng.so.2. So looking at what is installed I can find libpng3 but no libpng2. On RPM find I found libpng2. My question is if I

RE: [newbie] eth0 - eth1 problems

2002-06-27 Thread Andrew Sweetman
Being a new Linux user with +1 day's experience, one thing I did see on the net is that the KNE111TX card can get a bit funny with Linux. Someone else I'm sure will know a hell of a lot more about this than I. Andy Sweetman (Off to a strip club in 30mins, and has got Friday off =) )

[newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread Andrew Berry
should I look at? 3. Anyone else had this problem? Fixes? Thanks, Andrew Get your own 800 number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

Re: Re: [newbie] XFree86 freezes

2002-06-02 Thread Andrew Berry
I run in the Kicker ksysguard and system monitor to see cpu usage, memory usage, and hard disk accesses. This morning I had a crash, and the frozen image on the kicker showed about 25% cpu usage, 50% free RAM, and 60% free swap. I've also had it crash while using IceWM. Andrew

Re: [newbie] Dual CPU Query

2002-04-14 Thread Andrew Tuson
way out so was replaced, i hope this is not the case for you. as for mandrake it installs the SMP kernel as default if you have and smp machine mandrake 8.2 here too :-)) good luck LtCdData Andrew Tuson wrote: I have built a twin 1GHz P111 box, using an Abit VP6 motherboard. I

[newbie] Dual CPU Query

2002-04-13 Thread Andrew Tuson
A liitle further down it shows the first processor being initialized, but not the second. After logging in, cat /proc/cpuinfo only shows one CPU. Does anyone know what my problem is, and how I can coach Linux to recognize my second COU. All help gratefully received. Andrew Tuson Want

[newbie] NVIDIA RPMS - newbie experience

2002-04-11 Thread Andrew Olear
I just had a run in with the nvidia driver installation last night on mandrake 8.2 Although I thought I was following the directions right I wasn't. I was in X and I shouldn't have been when doing the compile. When I booted to the console only logon as root and did my thang' it worked fine

RE: [newbie] PHPnuke or Postnuke

2002-03-29 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
When I was setting up my website (http://www.drewvogel.com), I initially selected PHPNuke (5.0, 5.01, 5.20) and ran it for a while. Once I evaluated PostNuke, it became clear that PostNuke was the right choice for my site... It offered some small features unavailable in PHPNuke that were

[newbie] Downloads

2002-03-28 Thread Andrew
Hi All, I there is a choice of files between noarch and i586 for updating stuff which is a better choice? What is noarch? i586 is my processor -- Have an extra nice Day!, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] NVIDIA X Windows doesn't start for ROOT (long)

2002-03-25 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
handled by legacy driver (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device Mouse1 (type: MOUSE) -andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-23 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
2002 09:25:22 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running devfs=mount... What are the implications of changing it to =nomount? Will it break anything? If not, I'd be willing to try it. Not completely sure if I will upgrade to 8.2. I want to get the current system

RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-22 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
. -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 18:40:42 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did

RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-21 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
, but I do appreciate your help! -andrew -Original Message- From: Charles A Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 1:36 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:14:23 -0500 Vogel, Andrew

RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-21 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I did all you recommended (including the chown)... root.drewvogel:~$ mknod /dev/sda4 b 8 4 root.drewvogel:~$ chown drewvogel.disc /dev/sda4 chown: `drewvogel.disc': invalid user root.drewvogel:~$ chmod 0666 /dev/sda4 root.drewvogel:~$ ls -l /dev/sda4 0 brw-rw-rw-1 root root 8,

RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-19 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
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RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working under LM8.1

2002-03-19 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
ZIP drive not working under LM8.1 -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:28 AMTo: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; Myers, Dennis R NWOSubject: RE: [newbie] ATAPI ZIP drive not working unde

[newbie] IDE CD Burner installation/use?

2002-03-18 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I've got a LiteOn LTR-12101B IDE CD BURNER installed, but I cannot burn to the CD... There was a CD reader installed before (and it worked fine). I want to use the excellent MONDO/MINDI (http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/) as a system backup tool from the command line. I'd also like the burner to

RE: [newbie] 8.2 Release date

2002-03-15 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Do you think 8.2 will allow my CD burner and ATAPI ZIP drive to work (which they did under 8.0, but never have under 8.1)? -Original Message- From: tester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 4:08 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Aryan Ameri Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.2

[newbie] bash-monitor

2002-03-10 Thread Andrew
Hi, How to adj monitor so bash CL does not run of the bottom. I loose the last few lines after a few commands. Makes for a very difficult learning experience. -- Have an extra nice Day!, Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

[newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

2002-03-08 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
I am having THREE very persistant, very annoying problems with my Linux-Mandrake 8.1 PowerPack installation on a Celeron 533 machine... Here they are. Can ANYONE help me? 1. Cannot log into X as root. I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it! I'm using Sawfish

RE: [newbie] Linux-Mandrake TROUBLES

2002-03-08 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
1. Cannot log into X as root. I know, I know I shouldn't use X as root, but I need to be able to do it! I'm using Sawfish 1.01 and XIMIAN GNOME 1.4 (I think it's that version; not sure). Must be a security issue. Set the security level down, I think that should help. Actually, what isn't

RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
/zip /mnt/zip/ mount: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/zip is not a block device root.drewvogel:/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0$ Stumped! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College

[newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-13 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
? --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-13 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Thanks for the reply. Since I'm a newbie (never done a manual build of the kernel!), I don't know how to do it. Could you provide a clear, step-by-step guide for how to do it? -Original Message- From: s [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 5:18 PM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Stalled a lot

2002-02-13 Thread Andrew
expect the Linux PC should load continuously. Y/N P150- 64mg ram Tulip driver eth card ? Andrew Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive

2002-02-12 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ../ Any ideas? I hadn't noticed the /dev/ide/zip directory before, but it's empty... Don't know how to proceed! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati

RE: [newbie] 8.1 ZIP drive

2002-02-12 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Thanks for the tip. I tried that, and got: mount: /dev/hdd is not a block device Tried it also with /dev/hdd4, and got: mount: /dev/hdd4 is not a block device --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University

RE: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1?

2002-02-08 Thread Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
! --- === Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784 === -Original Message- From: Lyvim Xaphir [mailto

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