[newbie] Re: new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-17 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
On Friday 16 July 2004 09:54 pm, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: btw, i'm the one who started that thread "switching from fedora core, need advice". decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just somethi

[newbie] new monitor, starting X causes no signal

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
btw, i'm the one who started that thread "switching from fedora core, need advice". decided to give mandrake a try. i have to admit urpmi is pretty nice...=) fonts look different than fedora, but thats just something i'll get used to. 3 programs crashed within an hour of using it, but ehh..

[newbie] screen scrolls (desktop bigger than screen)

2004-07-16 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, when i set my screen resolution to anything higher than 1024x768 in the MCC, then my desktop becomes "bigger" than the screen and when i move the mouse off the end of the screen, it scrolls the screen. how can i avoid this? i just want my entire desktop to fit on my screen at a high resolu

[newbie] vpn client?

2004-07-15 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, my work provides a cisco vpn client for windows.ÂÂobviouslyÂifÂi'mÂhere,Âi'm not using windows...;)ÂÂwhatÂkindÂofÂvpnÂclientÂshouldÂiÂbeÂusingÂforÂlinux and where do i get it?ÂÂi'mÂusingÂmandrake-10.0. thanks. Want to buy your Pack or S

[newbie] Re: Re: switching from fedora core, need some advice

2004-07-12 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
mage"...? thanks again. Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 11 July 2004 02:36 am, Christopher J. Bottaro wrote: >> wow all, thanks for the great replies. Âwell i'm sold! Ânow is there a >> dvd iso for download? Âi've looked around the download mirrors, searched >>

[newbie] switching from fedora core, need some advice

2004-07-10 Thread Christopher J. Bottaro
hello, i've been a pretty devout redhat user since around 2000. that being said, i'm thinking of switching over to mandrake 10.0 because of a couple reasons: 1) i'm a huge KDE fan and that is default desktop on mandrake (as opposed to fedora core's gnome) 2) fedora core 2 seems to have been

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping transcode?

2002-12-24 Thread christopher j bottaro
i tried to install dvd::rip 2 days ago on my redhat 8.0 system. if i remember correctly, i had to install gtk-perl, glade, gdk_pixbuf, libdv, libdvdcss, libdvdread, subtitleripper, lame, among other things before the transcode and dvd::rip rpms would install. and in the end, after installing like

Re: [newbie] Lindows

2002-12-23 Thread christopher j bottaro
my expectations of wal-mart are so low, that nothing they do can disappoint me...;) -- christopher - Original Message - From: "Richard Babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 23, 2002 5:35 AM Subject: [newbie] Lindows > Gr

[newbie] looking for a new distro

2002-12-16 Thread christopher j bottaro
hello, i've been a redhat user for like 2 years now. i'm a big kde fan and i've always kind of disliked how redhat is geared towards gnome. finally in redhat 8.0, they mucked up some xft2 and freetype stuff that won't allow qt to compile with xft support without some hacks and now i'm ready to