Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only moves you

[newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Rodgers
I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version:

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 08:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles ctrl-alt-F7 or ctrl-alt-F8

[newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
Can't get Verbatim DVD W or RW to work with K3b. Any recommendation for a make of DVD that is known to work? TIA -- Charles Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club :

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
Success at last :-)) Many thanks to all for the helpful replies. I have a DVD reader - make just says Atapi. I have a Pioneer 109 DVD burner. I had been trying to put the source disk in the Atapi and the blank disk in the Pioneer burner (of course), which seemed a good idea at the time :-) Your

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 12:44:45 -0600,Tom wrote: The media quality is probly the last of Charles problems. More likely the backend, specially if it's cdrecord needs to be updated to the latest (cdrecord-2.01.01-0.a01.4mdk). Warly has been continually workin with Jörg Schilling to add DVD

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-18 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:14 +, Anne wrote: Sounds as though you never did the configuration. You can list the available drives and say which one is to be the reader. K3b had already decided that before I got there :-) It's more clever than I am ! I suspect the secret was ensuring that a

[newbie] Automount USB devices

2005-03-16 Thread Charles Rodgers
At one time my 10.1 system would autodetect if I plugged into USB a card reader or a digital camera on a temporary basis. I must have changed something unwittingly because now it doesn't work. What must I do to make it work again ? I've tried reading Howto's including:

Re: [newbie] Automount USB devices

2005-03-16 Thread Charles Rodgers
Mr G, On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:44:05 -0500, you wrote: Charles, Don't make the same mistake I did. If your camera has a playback mode, you need to activate it and them your camera should be detected. I had this exact problem just the other day with a Canon Powershot A85. As soon as it was in

Re: [newbie] Automount USB devices

2005-03-16 Thread Charles Rodgers
Hi Kaj, On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:14:13 +0100, you wrote: I've never come to grips with this.U(seless) S(illy) B(ugger). I was mystified by this problem because as far as I was aware I had not done anything that could have changed the setup here (10.1 with KDE). It was working, then it wasn't

Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver

2005-03-14 Thread Charles Rodgers
Hi All, Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. Many thanks for the quick replies, Christopher, Carroll and Kaj. I'm now working on it :-) I'll let you know how I get on. Charles

[newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver

2005-03-13 Thread Charles Rodgers
Hi All, First post :-) I've recently started the transition from XP to Mandrake and things are generally going very well. Mandrake is great !! However, inevitably help is needed. Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how.

Re: [newbie] HP 8450 Printer Driver

2005-03-13 Thread Charles Rodgers
Thanks Christopher, On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:08:27 -0500, you wrote: Is it possible to get a Linux driver for the HP Photosmart 8450 ? Could someone please tell me where and how. try this site:http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/ The nearest available on that site is for the HP Photosmart 8400,