[newbie] Trouble contacting DHCPD

2003-03-03 Thread Bo Rosén
kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 2 Mar 3 14:20:23 delirium kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 3 Mar 3 14:20:23 delirium kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 4 Mar 3 14:20:23 delirium kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 5 Thanks, Bo -- Bo Rosén [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy

Re: [newbie] What do I have to download?

2002-10-28 Thread Bo Rosén
tis 2002-10-29 klockan 07.26 skrev Antonio R.: - Mandrake Linux 9.0 ISO images mirrors for i586 and higher With a pentium 4 this is what you want. Don't forget to take a look at the README file as it explains how to burn a cd with each file to install from. Good Luck, Bo Want to buy

[newbie] Re: TV out in Mandrake 9.0...

2002-10-08 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 22.54 skrev The Antiwesley: managed to get it to work... Not sure really ;-) Any hints on what you did? First thing I did (after posting here - bad Bo) was to actually look at the docs for the card /usr/share/doc/NVIDIA_GLX-1.0/README. While I didn't understand a word

Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-07 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 05.31 skrev Damian: Hi, to contact the author of this XboxMediaPlayer, (no e-mail address, no real name, no nothing. only a public forum on his home site.) so there's little to begin with.. Perhaps someone could trace them, nice little bit of detective work :-)

[newbie] tv out

2002-10-07 Thread Bo Rosén
Got mdk 9.0 running, got mplayer, got Nvidia Gefore 2 mx, got an s-video cable, got a tv. After that, I'm at a complete loss :-) Anyone know of a complete idiot's guide to getting the above things working together? I noticed that my XF86Config-4 had a ( commented out) section for tv. Cheers,

Re: [newbie] tv out

2002-10-07 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 16.01 skrev Bo Rosén: Got mdk 9.0 running, got mplayer, got Nvidia Gefore 2 mx, got an s-video cable, got a tv. After that, I'm at a complete loss :-) Actually got this working, or almost. I'm looking at my tv-set now as I'm writing this, I only have to figure out how

Re: [newbie] XBOX media player and the GPL

2002-10-06 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-10-07 klockan 00.41 skrev Damian: There's this new program called Xbox Media Player which appears to be in clear violation of the GPL. i'm not quite sure what this program does, but i think it's purpose is playing DivX movies on an Xbox or something... Isn't this a matter for the

[newbie] FYI X-cd-roast in 9.0 crashing on you?

2002-10-05 Thread Bo Rosén
Hi all, just a FYI. I just discovered that the version of xcdroast in Mandrake 9.0 is not patched for the bug that causes it to crash when reading audio cds. This is a known bug affecting, Dutch, Eesti and Swedish. From www.xcdroast.org. * Bugfix: If you use the Dutch, Swedish or Eesti

[newbie] Open Office and fonts

2002-10-03 Thread Bo Rosén
After installing (clean install) Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with fonts in OO. I'm using the same old .ttf fonts from Windows. I imported them with darkfont during installation which failed to make them available to OO so I used spadmin in my ~/.openoffice directory. Nothing strange here, I've

Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts

2002-10-03 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-10-03 klockan 14.43 skrev Damian G: Thanks, but I'm not sure I understand this. This seems to refer to the fonts as printed, not on-screen which is my problem. I'll look at the archives for the expert list though. Thanks, Bo this was solved in the expert list days ago.

Re: [newbie] Open Office and fonts

2002-10-03 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-10-03 klockan 16.43 skrev Damian G: Actually it refers to both. that poster claimed that changing the printing setup improved the display on the screen. Yes, I just had a look at the archive as well. you might want to give it a try... I did, it worked. Weird. Thanks for the help

Re: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem.

2002-09-30 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-09-30 klockan 05.59 skrev Mark Berkwitt: I know this should be so simple, but Mandrake just doesn't get it. eth0 using tulip is connected to my cable modem. I have it set to dhcp as it should. On installation I have 2 nics. eth1 is for a nic I plan to use in the future, but it's not

RE: [newbie] New install of Dolphin, can't config nic to cablemodem.

2002-09-30 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-09-30 klockan 08.35 skrev Mark Berkwitt: Then you chose the 'network' option when mandrake install asked for you to cofigure eth0? Eh, not sure, probably. I do remember it said lan though, but I used the installer in Swedish and don't know what minor differences in wording there may

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Modems, Printers, and a Home Network

2002-09-29 Thread Bo Rosén
sön 2002-09-29 klockan 02.55 skrev Eric S. Dye: I am using Mozilla browser, which I assume is a derivative of Netscape. The other way aound is closer to the facts, I suppose. Netscape 6.x is based on the open source Mozilla 1.x. I am unable to get any sound when I open up web pages. I have

[newbie] cd-burner and cd-rom

2002-09-28 Thread Bo Rosén
I'm having some trouble with xcdroast seeing my normal cdrom drive (ide). It sees the burner, which has scsi emulation, but I'm not sure how to set up the cd-rom properly, MDK 9.0 didn't ;-) fstab --- /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /home ext3

Re: [newbie] cd-burner and cd-rom

2002-09-28 Thread Bo Rosén
lör 2002-09-28 klockan 20.36 skrev s: you didn't say if you were passing scsi emulation for that drive to the kernel at boot time. If you haven't, you may need too in order to cp from it. add: hdc=ide-scsi (whichever device your cdrom Thanks, I knew I'd forgotten something simple.

[newbie] gpg?

2002-09-27 Thread Bo Rosén
Hiya, Just installed MDK 9.0, but can't find gnupg? Is it me, or isn't it included? Other than that (so far) everything looks great. Made a clean install, and everything runs very smoothly (Gnome 2). Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] gpg?

2002-09-27 Thread Bo Rosén
fre 2002-09-27 klockan 21.45 skrev Bo Rosén: Hiya, Just installed MDK 9.0, but can't find gnupg? Is it me, or isn't it included? Oops, sorry. Found it. Cheers, bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Devicefiles

2002-06-05 Thread Bo Rosén
tis 2002-06-04 klockan 23.01 skrev s: well, you change it primarily in your /etc/fstab to somthing like this: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 ^^^ I don't have supermount but a simple /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user 0 0 seems

Re: [newbie] xcdroast help

2002-06-05 Thread Bo Rosén
change Non-Root configuration. After that, you can logout root and start it as a user. As for details on how to burn and setting up the cd burner, I can't help you. I have never managed to burn a single disc in Linux ;-) HTH, Bo Rosén Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Devicefiles

2002-06-04 Thread Bo Rosén
Hi all, I've just enabled ide-scsi for my cd-rom drive on hdc to allow Xcdroast to see it as well as my paride cd-burner. However, when I prepared to change the symlink /dev/cdrom from /dev/hdc/ to /dev/sd0 I discover things are not set up as I thought due to devfs. It looks like this.

[newbie] OpenOffice and MDK 8.1

2002-04-15 Thread Bo Rosén
Is anyone else having problems with OO641D and Mdk 8.1. The first time I start OO after logging into the system everying works fine, but if I close OO and then start it again it crashes as soon as the empty document first shows. Has anyone else seen this problem? Cheers, Bo -- Want

Re: [newbie] What programs are you looking for?

2002-03-17 Thread Bo Rosén
mån 2002-03-18 klockan 01.14 skrev Michael: Personally, I'm quite fond of Glimmer a pretty advanced editor for Gnome with tabs and highligting and stuff.While its not quite in the same leauge as Emacs (or Vi I hasten to add) its easier to use. http://glimmer.sourceforge.net Cheers, Bo

Re: [newbie] Python 2.2

2002-02-26 Thread Bo Rosén
ons 2002-02-27 klockan 00.39 skrev civileme: It is on Cooker mirrors. Thanks. Too many dependencies in danger though so I'll wait for 8.2 Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2

2002-02-24 Thread Bo Rosén
sön 2002-02-24 klockan 12.41 skrev Pauljames Dimitriu: The obvious question comes up: How do I set StarOffice to run for all users? If I remember correctly you have to run the installer with the -net option, then run it again (without the -net option) for each user. I.e each user has to

Re: [newbie] ftp resume

2002-02-11 Thread Bo Rosén
written man pages and help files. hope this helps, Bo Rosén Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ftp resume

2002-02-11 Thread Bo Rosén
but the option hash might help Good luck, Bo Rosén Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??

2002-02-08 Thread Bo Rosén
fre 2002-02-08 klockan 21.44 skrev Kaj Haulrich: ftp://ftp.sunet.se and dig down to mandrake. I suppose it's there too ! It's where I got mine some weeks ago .-) Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] less

2002-01-25 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 23.35 skrev Spencer Collyer: It's acript pointing to less.bin. I'm not sure nut it looks like it has something to do with enabling UTF-8. Cheers, Bo Seems a bit small to me - 61 bytes? This is what I get when I do the same thing on my LM8.0 system: Want

Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 08.16 skrev Brian Parish: I don't use cable access (i wish!) but from what I have read (on this I went from a 14.4 modem (my 56k one got toasted) to cable a couple of years ago. It was a sweet. If everything works with this hostname set and you are in fact using

[newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
Hi, I installed Mandrake 8.1 a couple of days ago and have run in to a strange problem with less. It only gives me a directory listing not the file, this is the same for root and a normal user. Any ideas? Ciao, Bo Rosén Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft

Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 10.10 skrev Brian Parish: should be set up. I'm sure that in a civilised place like Sveria, there should be inga probleme with asking support for linux configs. Sverige not Sveria :-) Yes, if I can't figure this out I'll talk to them. They have great support actually.

Re: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
less, only it won't show the file. Ciao, Bo Rosén Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 17.21 skrev Ronald J. Hall: Hi I know it doesn't seem likely, but maybe your hosts file is empty? Is that possible? Just a thought. Nope, it isn't. I've tried seceral other files as well. I even made a new text file. Same thing. Ciao, Bo Want to buy your

RE: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 14.59 skrev FLYNN, Steve: How are you actually invoking less? Sounds like you are doing something like 'ls -al | less' It does, doesn't it :-) However, I've been using less for several years with no problems on other distributions, so there is something a bit odd with

RE: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 17.10 skrev FLYNN, Steve: That is extremely strange. My feeling exactly :-) Do a 'which less' and then 'ls -al wherever less is located'. Make sure that less isn't linked to ls or something similar. /usr/bin/less -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 61 jul 20

Re: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 20.41 skrev Randy Kramer: Have you looked to see if there is an alias for less? Yes, and if I understand things correctly it shouldn't affect both root and normal users as /home hasn't changed from my previous distribution while /root is new. Unless mandrake overwrites

RE: [newbie] less

2002-01-24 Thread Bo Rosén
tor 2002-01-24 klockan 22.48 skrev Bo Rosén: Problem solved. There was a stray 'ls' in my .bashrc, why this caused less to behave badly is beyond me as is the reason it is there, but removing it helped. -- # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions # Source global definitions if [ -f

Re: [newbie] /etc/hosts

2002-01-23 Thread Bo Rosén
strange name. One thing though. I have a internet accsess via cable modem, which works fine, but the Network and Internet bit in CC shows me as having an Internet interface and a lan. I only have one network adaptor in the machine. Thanks, Bo Rosén I recall seeing somewhere that if you use