Re: [newbie] try yet again for help... cd rom/burner

2000-06-14 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Jim, I've had similar problems with mine. What I found is that if you use the cd player to eject your music cd, then; the cd works fine or if it doesn't; just keep the cd player on screen and us it to eject the cd's. I know it's weird, BUT; it worked for me. Sorry, can't help you on the

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

2000-04-23 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Martin; Glad it worked. Just to set the record straight. I am very new to Linux, however; dos and windows I'm not. Fat and MSDOS mode are 16 bit, they typically can only handle the 8.3 filenames (this is the old system), the new system VFat is 32 bit and can handle the long file names.

Re: [newbie] zip drive problem

2000-04-03 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Jon wrote: Mani Abreu wrote: Nope. Just tried that, here's the result: mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?) I read that the problem may be that the kernel is loading the drivers for the line printer first, before

Re: [newbie] DOS based directories

2000-04-01 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Vern; Even if you in DOS under windows, you can not say do "cd /program files/". Does under windoze uses the tilde "~". Under DOS in windows to change to directory "Program Files" you would type "cd /progra~1/" without the quotes or if you had another directory named "Programs", it would

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM disappeared

2000-04-01 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Lawrence Koga wrote: Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to work. My cd-rom cannot be opened. When I click

Re: [newbie] fixed it

2000-03-30 Thread Bruce Hilliker
.BEFORE I changeover to the new monitor...so that when I do changeover...I'll still be able to view the login screen...etc...and then be able to bringup drakeconf... to change the xconfigurator...etc...to the new settings for the new monitor...not go back to the prior settings... Bruce Hilliker

[newbie] KDE/Gnome background image

2000-03-29 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Hi; Wondering if someone could explain to me why - if I select a jpg image for my background in Gnome, it looks as good as it does in my windoze environment. But, if I try to use the same image as a backgound in KDE it's real grainy and I can't seem to get the resolution any better. Any

Re: [newbie] Real Player

2000-03-29 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Antonio Carlos Ribeiro Nogueira wrote: Anthony Huereca wrote: Did you got RealPlayer to run under Linux? I visited the site and didn'f find a version for Linux. Sincerely Antonio Carlos Antonio; Go to their website - click free download (Real Player 7); when you select download from that

Re: [newbie] fixed it

2000-03-29 Thread Bruce Hilliker
KompuKit wrote: okay, somehow...I was just about able to see more clearly... on subsequent reboots...and was then able to click and open drakeconf...to change the monitor settings...and res now I'm back in Linux...thank God ! What I want to know is this... I haven't changed over to the

Re: [newbie] ZIP Not installing...

2000-03-28 Thread Bruce Hilliker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lance, I have tried both 'insmod' and 'modprobe' for 'ppa' and 'parport'. No luck either way, even have done the 'lsmod' to check for the listing, NOTHING. After having some probs with one way of installing should I do the 'modprobe -r' to remove any installs

Re: [newbie] x windows problem cp

2000-03-27 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: i have a voodoo 3 and when i am tryin to change the resolution, i run XF86Setup and i get a green line at the top of the screen and it like freezes, whats wrong. i dont like editing the conf file i always screw it up. and have to reinstall. what can i do Try using the

Re: [newbie] sound

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Dan wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.0 so far everything went well.install.graphics... This is my first try at Linux and so far I am impressed. One major problem I am having,however, is my sound. I am using a Turtle Beach Montego 2 sound card(aureal semiconductor/vortex 2 as Linux calls

Re: [newbie] Lucent Winmodem

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: do you know where there are conexant winmodem drivers for linux, i tried to swap with my other computer which had lucent chipset. but it wouldnt work. (dont ask). so i am gonna try and get this conexant soft56k working. - Original Message - From: steve harris

Re: [newbie] sound help

2000-03-26 Thread Bruce Hilliker
curtis patrick wrote: how do you configure sound in mandrake 7.0-2 Curtis; From a terminal session (CTRL-ALT-F1) (CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back to xwindows) and login as "root"; then type sndconfig (this is automatic; if that doesn't work; try) sndconfig --noprobe (this is manual, and you'll have

Re: [newbie] Questions, Questions!

2000-03-25 Thread Bruce Hilliker
s your specific card. It also looks as if you have a lot of scsi devices...have you tried LOTHAR in drakconf Bruce Hilliker wrote: Hi to all; Could use a little (or a lot) of help. A little background. My System: Processor:AMD K-7 550 mhz Memory:

Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

2000-03-24 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Peter; I'm getting the same error messages. The way I got around it was to create two new folders under "/mnt". I probably should have used the originals "cdrom2 and floppy", but; I'm new to linux and didn't want to screw anything up. Anyways, I created "cdrw" and "afloppy", then; mount