Re: [newbie] Shot myself in the foot...again.

2003-09-26 Thread Brooks3J
Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On the CDROM, do you have it set as master or slave? Make sure the jumper is in >position for whichever you choose.  Put the Primary master as hard drive and on the >end connector of the cable, the slave on primary master should be on the mid >connector.

Re: [newbie] Shot myself in the foot...again.

2003-09-26 Thread Brooks3J
Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Swap the positions of the 256 and the 128 chips. if the BIOS finds >128Meg in the first slot it wont look for the extra memory >BTW please set your wraparound to 79 char or less.(scrolling sideways >makes me dizzy;-) ) >> I've tried the swap and, when the

[newbie] USB memory stick/ Gnome2.4 install?

2003-09-14 Thread Brooks3J
Hello all For those of you who helped me with my memory stick problem, I think it's a non-issue for now. I think my usb ports are dead. Which is not a bad thing since I can justify buying a new pc now to my wife. :) This one is fairly old. But thanks for your help, anyway. My new task is

Re: [newbie] USB memory stick

2003-09-12 Thread Brooks3J
RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It should work. What do you mean by 'won't recognise'? > >Does /mnt/removable get created? If so, try to mount it: "mount >/mnt/removable". > >As root, Run "tail -f /var/log/messages" and plug it in. Does something >happen? (CTRL-C to end this). > >Richard

[newbie] USB memory stick

2003-09-12 Thread Brooks3J
Hi, I saw the thread about USB mass storage devices, but I'm not sure if what I'm talking about is the same thing, so I apologize if it is. I'purchased one of those USB memory sticks (made by GE) and it works great for my laptop (WinXP; sorry, I need to keep a Win machine for school) but I cann

[newbie] GE Wireless Optical Mouse H097990

2003-08-19 Thread Brooks3J
Does anyone know if there are any linux drivers for this wireless optical mouse? The mandrake site does not show GE as a manufacturer, much less the mouse. Is there some other support for it? If not, has anyone tried Microsoft's wireless optical mouse with Mandrake 9.1? If so, does it work?

Re: [newbie] XFce4 newbie problems

2003-07-24 Thread Brooks3J
Ok, I've finally got it up and running. I needed to reboot the computer for KDM to show XFce4. (Was that in your directions? I apologize, if it was, since that means I wasted your time.) But, I wanted to say thanks a lot for helping me out and creating the rpms for XFce4. Jack ___

Re: [newbie] XFce4 newbie problems

2003-07-24 Thread Brooks3J
Ok, I'm pretty sure I've got everything downloaded and installed, and I have the executable file 19xfce4 where I'm supposed to. However, I still do not have XFce4 in my kdm startup menu. Here's the kdmrc file's contents. Is there something wrong with it? [Desktop0] BackgroundMode=Flat BlendB

Re: [newbie] XFce4 newbie problems

2003-07-21 Thread Brooks3J
Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, you'd have to edit >/etc/X11/wmsession.d/19xfce4 (or whatever number you gave it) to point >to that script in both the exec lines. > Todd, When I installed everything (I think) I did not get the above file (certainly not in the above location anyway

[newbie] xfce4-rc2 rpms that Todd wrote.

2003-07-20 Thread Brooks3J
Ok, Joe, if you're still up, I need your help. I downloaded the rpm packages for xfce4-rc2 that Todd was kind enough to create and I have them all in a file called xfce4-rc2 as per Todd's directions. The question is: what do I do now? Is there a way to install all of the packages with one co