Re: [newbie] display problem with X

Sven Vermeulen wrote: hello, I succesfully installed linux mandrake 7.0 on my system last week. But now I have a problem with X; the screen goes blank when X starts and runs (and it's not a screensaver). I tried cltrl-alt-fkey to switch to a text console, but whitout succes. What's

Re: [newbie] I cant access CDROM and Floppy

FREMAIN ANDUJAR wrote: I have a problem with the supermount i cant access my floppy sor CD it say is bad mounted or not have any disk., I re-install the system but still the same, any help __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: [newbie] window refresh rate or device setting incorrect

Faizel Boorany wrote: The contents of xterm are not legible. All that shows is the cursor highlight as I type. However, if I drag another window over the console window, it refreshes and the contents (sometimes) become visible. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] mounting disk shares of another linux box

Chadley Wilson wrote: hi all i wonder who knows i have spent the past few days trying to figure 'mount' 'unmount' out without luck I have read the man pages but and now am confused. Is the file system on another mdk7 box through the eth0 a nfs share here are the commands I treid and

Re: [newbie] TCP/IP Problem

John N wrote: I switch between Mandrake 7.02 and Win98 SE. I know, I know... but I have clients who use Windows so I have no choice. Under Linux I can reach any website without difficulty, hell even using the floppy disk QNX and it's tiny browser I can do this. Under Win98 there are

Re: [newbie]

Altern8 wrote: Hi gang, I am would like to get a copy of Mandrake, and atm I have the following modem and sound card, Diamond Supra Express 56e Pro modem, and Creative Labs SB live player 1024 PCI. Are these 2 compatible with mandrake? I looked at the web pages, but dont find

Re: [newbie] freeciv

magick wrote: anyone know how to run freeciv i installed it from there mandrake rpm and everthing went fine but know i don't what the executable file is to actually run it anyone know ? -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever I don't know the

Re: [newbie] Returned Mail?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this returned mail and did not even send it to this person, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think someone signed up for access through this group and put in the wrong addy. don I thought I knew that I knew what I thought But now I know that what I

Re: [newbie] Modelines

bryan pryor wrote: I am having trouble setting up the modelines for my monitor for X. It is a Likom Futura 17" monitor, and I have a Trident 975 AGP vid card. Here are the specs. If anybody can write the modelines from this, I'd really appreciate it. Vert. Refresh Rates: 50-100

Re: [newbie] My Mandrake Is Loopy... No More!

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help. I'm trying to fix my screensaver, it does not come on. I was told to look for the Virtual Terminal. But, I looked for the Virtual Terminal, and could not find it...will the Terminal Emulator work? I tried typing in 'kppp' and nothing happened... 'A

Re: [newbie] Problem

"Diego González" wrote: hi i decided to install mandrake like a month ago, so i used partition magic. in a few words, i had no trouble installing everything, so windows and linux worked just fine. but some days ago my installation of staroffice took all of my linux disk space, so i used to

Re: [newbie] network half way there

Chadley Wilson wrote: I've already sent this to Eugene Grimsdell to look at. The problem is that when I remove my eth0 config completely then kppp connection works it has some thing to do with routing but when I try to add "route add default ppp0" it spits out the error no route to host

Re: [newbie] Connection problem

"Antoniou, Stylianos" wrote: Hi there, I have configured two PCs (Mandrake7.0 RedHat6.1) in my college network. When the network cards are connected to the network sockets everything is fine,I have access to the www from both and when I ping from one to the other I can get a connection.

Re: [newbie] DSL problems

Do you have the addresses for your name servers on your isp? The easiest way to enter them is to go into linuxconf, network, client, dns and put in what they give you.

Re: [newbie] Need Russian TV URL, please!

Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Thanks to all the wonderful advice cocerning LInux and Vmware, I was able to set up a Win3.1 virtual machine in Vmware and install Windows Media Player 3.0. As I sadly explained yesterday, TV 6 of Moscow has chosen to broadcast their LIVE domestic

Re: [newbie] net problem

stathis gotsis wrote: i have mandrake 7.0.when i connect to the internet through kppp,then netscape can find no host,the same happens with other applications ,such as mail clients.what could be possibly wrong.i would appreciate any help.

Re: [newbie] It's getting really frustrating (was 'error not enough space in partition /')

kiriakos wrote: Well thank you all guys, but 7.0-2 didn't do it for me. I did as Alan suggested , that is I made a floppy from a cdrom.img of 7.0-2 version and I still got the error message that I need 1180 megs and the / filesystem is not sufficient. I managed to install the packages by

Re: [newbie] Basic Help

Ronald Brown wrote: Hello Group, In the install process, it asks the following question. What partition and directory on that partition holds the Mandrake/RPMS and Mandrake/base directory? If you remember from my post yesterday, all my files are on my hard drive. Actually: C:\7.0

Re: [newbie] Lexmark Colorjet 2070 Drivers?

John Catral wrote: Hi! Has anyone gotten the LExmark Colorjet 2070 drivers to work for Linux? Mandrake 7 doesnt seem to recognize it. I hope someone can help me out because I dont want to print my school papers from WindoZe.. =) Thanks! -JVMC If nobody posts the url, check in the mail

Re: [newbie] Quick Zip question

"Michael D. Kirkpatrick" wrote: I have a 4 gig and a 27 gig hard drive on my web server. Everything is ran off of the 4 gig hard drive. The 27 gig hard drive is basically for storing daily backups (Up to 2 weeks worth). Is there a way to tell zip to treat all shortcuts (links) as only

Re: [newbie] 82810e driver whitney video card

"Jim Del Cañamo" wrote: I have a Soyo SY6WM, it has a intel whitney 82810e chipset I am looking for this driver help me :-( __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com Don't know if it will work, but check intel's site for

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Problems

Jack wrote: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.0 a few hours ago by using my cdrom to boot the installation up. When I try to access any of my cds in the /mnt/cdrom, it says it can't read the disk.

Re: [newbie] 2 questions for you

Cory Hirano wrote: Hello there] I have two questions 1st How do I uninstall a desktop replacements? because I want to upgrade to the latest version of IceWM but it conflicts with the "light" version already installed. 2nd how do I install the isapnp file needed to install Lothar so I

Re: [newbie] fs problem

Cory Hirano wrote: Hello again I checked the error message and this is what it says Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs 03:07 Do I have to reinstall mandrake again? Cory Does your boot floppy work to boot the hard drive? If all else fails, you could try to do an upgrade

Re: [newbie]

STEVE GREEDY wrote: Hi all, I've been trying (for about a week) to install Mandrake versions 6.1 and 7.02. on the following: Tyan 1854 motherboard pentium PIII-600 128 meg ram IMB 13.Gb HDD MATROX G400max SB 1024 soundcard NE2000 comp. ethernet card  he problem is as

Re: [newbie] how do i make WindowMaker open a new window, maximized?

Ryan Drafall wrote: Hello, The subject pretty much says it all. Whenever I open a new window, whatever the program may be, it always opens in a window that is off-center on the screen. How do I make it automatically maximize? Thanks for your help. --

Re: [newbie] Restructuring H/D Allocations

Larry C wrote: I started several weeks ago with the idea in my mind that I would install this Linux thing to play around with but surely not get serious about. Now I find myself dreading the thought of booting back into a dos environment (should put some sort of warning about this on the CD

Re: [newbie] Binary Applications

If you downloaded .rpm files, you have to install them first. In KDE, use the disk navigator to find the rpm, then click on it. The xrpm program should come up with the archive so you can install it. Look at the second tab in the window so you know where and what it's putting out to run it

Re: [newbie] bz2?

y? Geez... I must have always fallen asleep before I got to y parameter in tar docs. I always did it the long way. z was impressed onto my brain when I was young, so I knew that one. Thanks Tom! Now I feel I should go to the web site and read more of your information, but I always end up

Re: [newbie] boot to console

Edit the messages log file in /tmp/log (or something close to that) Piero Caracciolo wrote: At 18:43 05/03/00 -0500, you wrote: dmesg | more Harald Wolf wrote: Hi, how can a review the error messages that my new selfcreated kernel produces on startup ? or how avoid start

Re: [newbie] new to Mandrake 7.0

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 03/04/2000 6:01:54 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Have you run printtool? If not run it at the command prompt. Regards John the Nadger http://mklinux.cjb.net How do I run that? Open an Xterm in KDE and

Re: [newbie] telnet problem

If you can find a site that has the directories from the 6.1 CD instead of the iso image, then go to the Mandrake/RPMS dir and find telnet-server rpm. James wrote: Sorry if this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer on the Mandrake web site anywhere. I have installed 6.1 (I

Re: [newbie] Install Mandrake 7.02 - install lockup with a Adaptec 2040u2w (newbie)

Del Craddock wrote: I am trying to install 7.02 and it always locks up after it detects my Adaptec 2940u2w and tries to install the driver. Machine info Motherboard - Abit BP6 with 2 400 Celrons Adaptec 2940u2w, 400h, interrupt 5, id 7 256 meg ram three scsi drives and jazz drive

Re: [newbie] Loosing ones partitions

Did you try creating a win98 boot disk, booting from it, and at the prompt enter fdisk/mbr to see if that fixes the partition table? condeuser wrote: Hi penguinistas, Not sure if this is a Linux or Windoze problem. Thoe,I suspect,the user needs a thorough debugging. Recently

Re: [newbie] Internet access?

Try www.mandrakeuser.org and www.linuxnewbie.org Lothar Mandrake wrote: The other week somebody posted a link to a page with advice on how to get connected to the Internet using Linux. I stupidly clicked on "delete" before I realized that I could really use that kind of information.

Re: [newbie] Problem with my printer Epson LX-810

JUAN DAVID BOTERO BOTERO wrote: Hello, my name wis David and i live in Colombia, actually i'm using Mandrake 6 with kernel 2.2.9-27. I got two printers, Epson LX-810 and Epson Stylus 300 but i can't work with them, the LX-810 only works with pipes... "cat /etc/passwd /dev/lp0" but does

Re: [newbie] Ethernet Card Problem...

Michael Haney wrote: -- Hi all! I really love Linux-Mandrake, I used to use RedHat 6.1, but this distribution is so much better. -- I am having a

Re: [newbie] help

Kit wrote: I have an old MOUSE SYSTEMS serial ISA card... with jumpers for setting IRQs and COM ports... so I assume...I can use this card to install a external modem... is this correct? if so, HOW do I do this for US Robotics 33.6 sportster external modem -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] help

...03f8-03ff IRQ 4 and on the same card, is a 25 pin female plug then, I have a BestData VW-PCI 56k winmodem hooked up to com2 IRQ 9, in windows, and IRQ3 in DOS I do have two ISA slots left, that are free... Audrey Beck wrote: Kit wrote: I have an old MOUSE SYSTEMS serial ISA

Re: [newbie] Boot Error

You need to install lilo to hda in this case. You need something to boot from. hda1 is the actual partition for /. "Potts, Ross" wrote: I get a boot error after configuring the system on a new install. My system is a Compaq Presario 4112 with a P200 for the CPU. It is maxxed out with 72

Re: [newbie] Red hat

It can't be the password for root, it must be a user. Tom Hicks wrote: I have got the SMB to work and am able to see the box on the Windows system. But when I try to log on to the box I am getting the IPC$ command. I have checked all the connections and I have user accounts and what not.

Re: [newbie] multiple httpd..

James Mellema wrote: Audrey Beck wrote: vishal bansal wrote: Hi all, Kindly reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED] After starting my linux box, after typing 'ps -aux' I see 12 instances of httpd daemon each consuming 3.6% of memory. I could kill them , but is there any

Re: [newbie] booting from floppy

toie wrote: i recompiled a kernel and everything is fine...my problem is booting to iti use a boot disk to boot and i need to reinstall lilo after making changes to lilo.config correct? how do i reinstall lilo on my bootdisk to use the lilo.config i changed? thanx in

Re: [newbie] DNS problems

Paul Eppley wrote: I have my dial-up connection working, but I can't get anywhere in Netscape--it keeps saying 'server not found'. I do have the appropriate DNS entries in kppp. What else must be set? Paul Eppley http://users.nni.com/Paul_Eppley In an xterm window, enter: ifconfig ppp

Re: [newbie] Fwd: How to print in a hp 670 c

Fernando Camacho Olmos wrote: -- Mensaje Reenviado -- Subject: How to print in a hp 670 c Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 21:10:01 -0600 From: Fernando Camacho Olmos [EMAIL PROTECTED] in economic mode. thanks --- Go into

Re: [newbie] Help with installing KDE

Jim Weaver wrote: I have just installed Linux-Mandrake 6.1, I am logged in as the root user, The cdrom was found in the initial installation. I have no idea how to see what's on the cdrom of how to load the kde. I am very new at Linux but I am fairly confident in the windows world. I have

Re: [newbie] no make possible

Joerg Reinhardt wrote: -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doellbachstraße 15 34127 Kassel Joerg Reinhardt Hi, after mixed up my tiny

Re: [newbie] Part one : Monitor 800x600 Config

Larry C wrote: I am having a wonderful X configuration learning experience as I continue to be unsuccessful configurng my monitor for 800x600 res. Every setting from 1600x1200 32bit through 640x4808bit is great but that darn 8x6. I have learned of the awe of Xconfig, the wonder of

Re: [newbie] multiple httpd..

vishal bansal wrote: Hi all, Kindly reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED] After starting my linux box, after typing 'ps -aux' I see 12 instances of httpd daemon each consuming 3.6% of memory. I could kill them , but is there any permanent fix for this. Thanks, Vishal.

Re: [newbie] PartitionMagic won't let me run windows

Sam Junge wrote: Sorry for making this so long, but I wanted to make sure I included all the details, so please take the time to read it : I bought Mandrake Linux 7.0, which came with a version of PartitionMagic as part of the "extra's" cd. I installed Partition and BootMagic on my NEW

Re: [newbie] Printer setup

Papa wrote: Hi folks, I'm having problems getting a remote printer to work from my Linux Box. I can ping the Win98SE box both by IP Address and hostname. However, when I set those items up in printtool it does not even appear to access the hub to get to the Win98SE box. Here are some

Re: [newbie] Cannot get LILO to intialize Network Adapters

root wrote: Please help...I'm about ready to quit Linux and go back to Windows forever. I cannot get either of my PCI network adapters to initialize. Lothar recognizes both of my adapters and lists them in the following order: 3Com Fastnet 3C905B Netgear FA310TX as DEC (Tulip) I

Re: [newbie] Lothar..

Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Same here, I just got the 7.0-2 CD and it still can't recognize my NE2000 compatible NIC. :3)~~ Kyle \"Orange\" Spahn wrote: Hey everyone, I haven't been able to get my NE2000 compatible network card to work in Lothar yet. I can't run the

Re: [newbie] KDE resolution, Generic VGA

Rog wrote: So I got Mandrake 7.0 up and running, finally (after some Compaq generated difficulties), but right now my screen resolution is extremely low since I had to select Generic VGA for a vid card. I have an integrated motherboard, an Intel 810, which uses an Intel 810 Chipset

Re: [newbie] No PPP Support in 6.5?

Lane Lester wrote: I just installed Mandrake 6.5, and when I tried to run kppp I was told there was no ppp support in the kernel. I did a custom install, and I certainly told it nothing that would imply that I would =not= be using a dialup connection to the Internet. What should I do

Re: [newbie] Load lilo with rescue disk

"Antoniou, Stylianos" wrote: Hi there, I caused a kernel panic, I booted with the rescue disks and I want to run lilo and to change my fstab file. Unfortunately, I cannot run lilo by simply typing /sbin/lilo and vi is not loaded. What am I missing? Stelios Antoniou mount your root drive,

Re: [newbie] problem with VGA

George Houdek wrote: Hi all I have problem with Mandrake 6.1 Helios .I have VGA rage fury 128 with 32 MB memory. problem is " canno't open X server and canno't open X win" I make configuration with xf86config . Pleas help :-))) George I think there somewhere on the cd there is a driver

Re: [newbie] I can't log as root!?!

Louis Paradis wrote: Hello, I've installed MDK 7.0 in text mode by FTP. After the installation, I've tried to log in as root, but it didn't work. Then I've tried as user and it worked. But I can't use the startx command to start X windows. Then I've used the passwd command under linux

Re: [newbie] X not starting proplery

Rajesh A wrote: I installed Linux-Manrake 7.0 on my Inter PIII 500 machine. Installation, went through, without any problem. During X configuration, my adapters and monitors were detected automatically. I could able to see the screen on Display test, during this process. But, when I

Re: [newbie] Best Data 56K External Linux Modem - KPPP dies constantly

webmaster wrote: Hello Linux community, I have a problem with my Best Data 56k External Linux Modem connecting to the internet. It connects but the KPPP only lets me stay on for 1-10 minutes before kicking me off. This is the message I get back- "The remote system does not seem to

Re: [newbie] Cirrus Logic 5428 VLB

"Ramiro Aceves, EA1ABZ" wrote: Hello Linux-fans: I can not set my GL5428 Vesa Local Bus video card with more than 256 colors in X-window (16 bit color). Can you help me please? Thanks in advance. Ramiro. What happens, or doesn't happen when you try to set it to a higher number of

Re: [newbie] Monitor problems

Sven Magnus wrote: Hi guys!! I've installed Mandrake without any problems, my monitor (AOC Spectrum 4Vn) is even in the hardware list, but the problem is the driver doesn't work right. In the test screen it's OK (because nothing's moving) but when I use KDE and I move a window or

Re: [newbie] Xconfigurator problem...

Rich wrote: Can't get Xconfigurator to work. My monitor (Viewsonic A-90) is not in the list and neither is my video card (Voodoo2000). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. What version of Mandrake are you using? Voodoo2000 is there in 6.1. For the monitor, you'll have to pick one

Re: [newbie] Monitor?

powerdiver1000 wrote: Having problem setting up Monitor, I think thats why when it promps me to start program it goes thru this long list of things then my Monitor light turns amber nothing else happens. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Dewain Narron 757-866-0301 Nothing is wrong

Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bingo! I'll give this a shot tonight. Can someone point me to information in the man pages about this - I have beenthrough everything I can think of and readas much as I could, but I guess I must have missed it. How did you guys figure this out? (You're going

Re: [newbie] Cannot Print

Abdoul Da Man wrote: Hi, I am using Mandrake 6.1 and everything is fine. but I cannot print. I have a cannon BJC-2010 and a Microtek scanner. When I do: $lpr filename It's said something about connection refused but the job is queued. I checked the lpd and it's running. Thanks.

Re: [newbie] Hi, everyone

I believe the archive search is on the same page as the subscribe to the list stuff. Oliver Immich wrote: Hello, I am new to the list as a subscriber and very impressed by the traffic here. Therefor I wonder whether the postings could be reduced to really new questions (a number of them

Re: [newbie] Linux Networking

Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Hello. This might sound weird, but I need to network 4 linux boxes together. Basically I already have them in a physical network. They are all assigned IP's and they can ping each other. But how do I access the other computer's drives without telnetting into

Re: [newbie] Defragging

Yes. It's the file system, not the OS that allows for more fragmentation. Sevatio Octavio wrote: Would you still have to defrag a FAT32 partition even if linux is the primary OS for it? Seve -Original Message- From: Anthony Huereca [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mounting Logical Drives

Michael C wrote: Hi, I have a disk with a primary FAT32 partition (C drive) and an extended primary partition. The extended partition has logical drives d, e, f and g. These drives are also FAT32. I partitioned these using Partition Magic. Linux (on seperate drive) can mount

Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using LinuxConfto set my fstab file up. It all mounts, without problems. Even got the CD-burner to mount after working out it was sr0. Trouble is, only root has write permissions to everything. 'steve' only has read permissions to the vfat mounted

Re: [newbie] A question about installation process

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I'd like to install LINUX in my intel-machine. My hard-disk is 9 Gb an I have a 1 G partition. When I try to do the a LINUX-NATIVE partition is imposible an give me an error "partition too big". l have W95 in my computer too and I dont wan't to erase the

Re: [newbie] HELP!!! After deleting /tmp

KDE seems to write all over there and NEED it's configuration files it puts there. I had to reinstall. Couldn't ever get it all fixed properly. :( Brent Timmer wrote: Help!! I deleted the files in /tmp(thinking they were only temporary files). Now I can't get into blackbox, cant run simple

Re: [newbie] irq's

Log in as root to a console window and enter: cat /proc/interrupts rharvey wrote: is there a way to get a list of irq's. in windows you can see what irq and dma's and addresses are free so you can set an card up to work with the free resources. where can I find this info at it linux?

Re: [newbie] kfm hangs on reading /mnt/

Dan Ros wrote: Any ideas why? Thanks. -- http://www.uplink.freeuk.com - ICQ: 15212336 No witty comment or quote required. Yeah, it's a bug. You can't go up to "/" root (hangs) and some vfat partitions, you can't use regular mount (hangs). If it's a vfat partition, you can edit the

Re: [newbie] help

Kit wrote: How do you uninstall a bad install of 7.0 CD...and then re-install 6.1? also, I tried a hayes smartmodem 2400 (external) just to see if it would connect...and it wouldn't. Got any ideas... also, WHERE is KPPP on the CD? what's the RPM called...? isn't the above modem a

Re: [newbie] Sound Card, graphic card

Edwin Chua wrote: Hi all, Pretty bad at managing a Linux. Here's my questions : 1.How do you go about to configure ur sound card?? 2.I select a generic graphic card (S3 3D Trio), when I start my netscape, a error msg stating that it can only support a mono visual screen. However,

Re: [newbie] ISA detection problems

Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: I lost the original message of the guy who did reply to me, but the thing is, my soundcard is plug and play and was successfully detected by Mandrake 6.1. My old Ethernet card wasn't plug and play but 6.1 was able to successfully configure it on its own. Since

Re: [newbie] printing problem

In KDE, try playing with printtool. Make sure that you setup the printer to the correct thing, local, remote, samba, etc. You can reselect the driver and port there to test. vishal bansal wrote: Hi Guys: I have just installed linux-mandrake 6.1. I selected the right printer during the

Re: [newbie] help

Benjamin Shugar wrote: Hello My name is Ben. I have a netwrok at home and a print server. My print que cannot start print daemon lpd. THe jobs go to the que but the que cannot start the daemon. All my other internet services work fine on it. I can ping the print server so I know it

Re: [newbie] ISA detection problems

Ger-Bil Jinn wrote: Neither the installation or Lothar was able to detect my network card (NE2000 compatible), and the same goes with my soundcard (Creative AWE64), and both are the only ISA devices I have on my computer. Can someone please help me? Thanx! :3)~~

Re: [newbie] IDE Zip

Heberto del Rio Guerra wrote: Hi I just got Linux Mandrake 7.0 and install it. Everything went fine, but... It didn't auto configure my IDE Zip that used to work perfect under Windows 95, Linux Red Hat 5.2 and Linux Red Hat 6.1. When Mandrake is loading it recognizes de IDE ZIp it sees it

Re: [newbie] The saga continues...update:

Works fine in Mandrake 6.1. Audrey Beck wrote: Dave wrote: I tried changing (in the BIOS), the eth0 to IRQ 3...and when I went back to linux, ide0 had changed with it...is there some other way to change IRQs then? thx -Dave I have the same type of thing. I thought it was just

Re: [newbie] file types association in KDE

Alek wrote: Hello, I would like to change the default file associations. Ex. I'd like to have FreeAmp play/open my mp3/m3u files instead of the KDE Audio Mpeg Player. Where/how please. Thanks, Alek There is a section on it in the KDE help file. What I did was to go into K Explorer and

Re: [newbie] KDE startup

Enter: startx Do you get errors or? JP wrote: I also have installed linux-mandrake twice and I can't get kde going either. I have xterm and xconsole up but can't get kde to start. I have re-read the installation guide and notice that at one point it mentions selecting the components to

Re: [newbie] Mouse/kaudio woes -- Urgent

Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends (Using Mandrake 6.1) My mouse freezes in Netscape and elsewhere in X windows (KDE) and in the Console. It was working fine for months and now is constantly breaking down (every few minutes -- I hope I can get this message out before it breaks down

Re: [newbie] 2 cd drives linux only finds one???

Mike wrote: H, that is a humungeous amount to read and understand :-( Let us assume for a minute that I am a total idiot. Its easy really, my wife does it all the time :-( How would one such as me go about adding my 2nd EIDE CD type device and then setting it up as a

Re: [newbie] 3C905 and IRC

sdos wrote: Hello, I have recently installed Mandrake 7, and love it, only problem I have is I have 2 network cards, one in a linksys ehter16 isa, and the other is a 3com 506b isa (which I believe some one has posted about already) I can't get either one to work, it sees the 3com for sure,

Re: [newbie] Urgent -- how to get back to KDE

Benjamin Sher wrote: Using Mandrake 6.1 I am typing to you from Pine in the Console. I have been having endless problems with my mouse. I thought I would try testing it in Gnome. Well, it's even worse in Gnome. In KDE, my mouse lasts about 5 to 10 minutes. In Gnome, it dies almost

Re: [newbie] Kernel Configuration

Lance Borden wrote: I'm at a dead end here...sure hope y'all have some insight! I'm trying to recompile my kernel for my zip100 parallel port drive. When I get to the 'make bzImage' step, I get the following error message every time: gcc -06 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti

Re: [newbie] Lilo accidental install on C:\ drive and not mbr...

David Schur wrote: I am running a 2 hd computer 1st is all windows ( c ), 2nd is 1/2 linux 1/2 vfat partition. ( broken into two more drives a primary and a logical - d/e ) Ok i Did the stupid mistake and installed it to hda1 instead of hda yea stupid me, now i don't know how to

Re: [newbie] Resolution problem

Daniel Boyd wrote: hey, ive just installed mandrake 6.5, and altho i set the resolution to 1280x 960 ( i think).. i now have what seems to be 4 'screens' which i have to scroll through... but its at what seems to be a paultry 640x480.. or mayb even worse can any1 tell me how to change

Re: (audrey beck)[newbie] Resolution problem

Daniel Boyd wrote: What's happening is that X is using the SVGA driver and putting you in 640x480 or else using double scan. Try running XConfigurator to re-detect your video and monitor. Sometimes even when a card is supported it does this. Then you have to manually edit the

Re: [newbie] Changing mailing address

Go to the linux-mandrake.com page for mailing lists, then unsubscribe newbie with your old address and subscribe with your new address. Brian E Popp wrote: Hello - I'm new at this, having worked on mainframes for years, but would like to switch to Linux probably for the same reasons

Re: [newbie] new to the list

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 2/8/00 4:28:36 PM Central Standard Time, SpartanTJedi6746 writes: hi, i'm new to the list and Linux and I have a AMD K62 350 and I have two hardrives and i'm running windows 98 and Linux. I want to mount my other harddrive so linux can read

Re: [newbie] Install new programs with files with TAR extensions

Alex wrote: I'm a sys admin for NT in a company but I'm just getting around to the Linux (mandrake)6.5. I would like to know how to install those programs with that extensions I have the chance to download a lot of stuff in the net but having trouble trying to unzipped and install...

Re: [newbie] Mandrake has BIG BUG Kernel re-build NOT POSSIBLE

I've done it. Vic wrote: Just to announce, Mandrake 6.1 has a bug, you cannot, no matter what you do, no matter how hard you try, there is NO make menuconfig in Mandrake 6.1, they screwed up, you install the kernel headers and the sources, and still will not make menuconfig or xconfig,

Re: [newbie] When pppd daemon should be launched

Alek wrote: Hello, I have a strange problem (or at least it seems strange to me ;) : If I launch kppp as root, there is no problem (besides Wrong charset! witch I have no ideea what should I do about). If I launch kppp as a regular user, my user, it tells me that there is no ppp support in

Re: [[newbie] Modem driver?]

Check in the mail archives (beginning to mid January 2000) and try searching on Phoebe. Ramon Gandia wrote up a nice tech page on modems in the expert mailing list. There were some good discussions and recommendations on modems. I don't remember if they were all in expert or in both expert and

Re: [newbie] modem woes

Have you tried using setserial to setup the modem first? Dave Gunter wrote: I am having problems with my modem as well, the jumpers are set correctly and I ran the query in kppp it worked once then I do it again I get a error message "Sorry the modem is not responding" I've tried

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