[newbie] Installing KDE 3

2002-05-06 Thread Fred Schroeder
I followed the instructions on installing KDE 3 from the Mandrake website, but when I do the urpmi *, I get all of these errors about qt3 devel files conflicting with the qt2 devel files. How do I get around this? is is alright to have it install without checking dependencies? Thanks, Fred

Re: [newbie] kamp-idled Better answer for future referance NOT

2001-12-14 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Thursday 13 December 2001 07:17 pm, you wrote: > On Thursday 13 December 2001 17:52, you wrote: > > Fred, > > > > This is idle time on your machine. From a previous answer on this list I > > believe that instead of just recording idle time, it actually tries to > > minimise energy use by fiddl

[newbie] kamp-idled

2001-12-13 Thread Fred Schroeder
Anyone know what kamp-idled is and why it is using 97% of CPU, at least that is what top tells me. Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Editors won't save file, why not?

2001-12-08 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Saturday 08 December 2001 05:27 pm, you wrote: > Hi list, > I am trying to edit my lilo.conf file in order to tell the system that I > have a second cdrom drive that I want detected as a scsi dev. Each time I > go to save the changes to the file in the editor it says 'cannot save file, > discar

Re: [newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-07 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Friday 07 December 2001 04:30 pm, you wrote: > when you use top, try "U" the fred to get only the instances owned by fred. > then try T (or h as it will bring up help) for time. showing you the > process up the longest. > Note: there is no need to hit "enter" after you enter U or T but is neede

Re: [newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-07 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Friday 07 December 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 07 December 2001 08:59, you wrote: > > On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote: > > > Fred Schroeder wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at wo

Re: [newbie] Still no printing in LM 8.1

2001-12-07 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Friday 07 December 2001 06:23 am, you wrote: > Marcia wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have not gotten anywhere so far with the printing so I may install > > vmware put on my Win95 and print from there. Does anyone know how I > > would mount or access Linux files in Windows95 (without using Samb

Re: [newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-07 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Friday 07 December 2001 05:21 am, you wrote: > Fred Schroeder wrote: > > Hi, > > I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran > > "who" that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, > > though my workstati

[newbie] killing a connection

2001-12-06 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi, I noticed this evening when I logged in to our server at work and ran "who" that I show being still logged in a couple of different places, though my workstation is shut down. How do I kill these connections? Thanks, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:

Re: [newbie] problems installing 'kylix'

2001-10-29 Thread Fred Schroeder
At 06:46 PM 10/29/01 +0100, you wrote: >On Friday 26 October 2001 19:54, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My system is running LM 8.1. When I try to install 'kylix' I get this > > message: > > > > [root@main kylix_oe]# sh setup.sh > > > > : command not found > > : command not found > > : command not fou

[newbie] apostrophe in Mozilla

2001-10-23 Thread Fred Schroeder
While viewing web pages in Mozilla 0.9.4, I notice that all of the apostrophes get replaced with a y with two dots over the top. Do any of you guys know how I get rid of this? Not a big deal, but kind of annoying. TIA, Fred Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:/

Re: [newbie] Returning zip icon

2001-10-19 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Friday 19 October 2001 10:12 pm, you wrote: > Fred Schroeder wrote: > > Hi all! > > I changed all of my removeable drive icons to the old way, > > like in 7.2, where you click on them to mount the drive, > > and right click and umount from the menu, no supermount >

Re: [newbie] md5sums

2001-10-04 Thread Fred Schroeder
Robert, at the command promt type: md5sum filename where filename is the name of the downloaded file you wish to check. This will spit out a character string, which should match what is in the md5sums file, which is a text file. hope I helped, and didn't confuse! Fred At 05:34 PM 10/4/0

Re: [newbie] Can root replace user passwords

2001-09-30 Thread Fred Schroeder
On Sunday 30 September 2001 10:59 pm, Michael wrote: yes, from console, as su, type: passwd username where username is the actual users login of course. You can also change the users password from within linuxconf. hope this helps, Fred > One of my users forgot thier password. > Is it possibl

[newbie] S540 Xtreme 3D accel

2001-05-06 Thread Fred Schroeder
HI all! I am having trouble getting a Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme card to run with 3D accelleration. Does anyone know how to get this to working? I have Mandrake 8.0 running, Asus P5A, AMD k6-2/500, 128meg RAM. I have been able to get Chromium to run, but is is ***VERY*** SLOW! TIA, Fred

Re: [newbie] Users and permissions

2001-04-16 Thread Fred Schroeder
to add a user, from the command line: adduser you must do this as root, but since it sounds like that is the only account you have, shouldn't be a problem! hope this helps, Fred - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 11:20 AM S

[newbie] S540 Xtreme & OpenGL

2001-04-13 Thread Fred Schroeder
I have a Diamond Stealth III S540 Xtreme video card, but don't seem to have OpenGL on my system, Mandrake 8.0 rc1. Has anyone got this config to work, or am I just screwed on the 3D accel? TIA, Fred

Re: [newbie] Apache/virtual hosts

2001-04-09 Thread Fred Schroeder
Put the following in your httpd.conf file. (of course replacing what you need to to make it fit your system) NameVirtualHost IPADDRESS ServerAdmin Admin_email_address ServerName www.first.com DocumentRoot /home/www/first ErrorLog /var/log/first-error Tran

Re: [newbie] Setting the time

2001-01-26 Thread Fred Schroeder
Got it set! Thanks guys! Fred - Original Message - From: "civileme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 10:41 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Setting the time > On Friday 26 January 2001 17:08, you wrote: > > Hey Fred, > > > > > Does anyone know how to

[newbie] Setting the time

2001-01-26 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi! Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock, and also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? This is on a server running Mandrake 7.1 TIA! Fred

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-19 Thread Fred Schroeder
ndrake7.2/Install/Custom/page s/custom6.php3> > > Is it certain that Windows will be wiped out of it's share of my old > partition? I have used Partition Magic but don't remember that I had to > re-install anything then, either, as you imply. > > Any other feedback sha

Re: [newbie] How does one uncompress files?

2001-01-17 Thread Fred Schroeder
- From: Fred Schroeder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 12:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How does one uncompress files? rpm is not really a compression tool, but a package manager, but anyway you can find more information on it

Re: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ?

2001-01-17 Thread Fred Schroeder
use tar. "man tar" - Original Message - From: "Keith Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: [newbie] Where is the 'compress' (*.Z) command on Mandrake 7.2 ? > Need this to uncompress a .tar.Z file and it's nowhere to

Re: [newbie] serious rpm problem

2001-01-10 Thread Fred Schroeder
have you tried: rpm --rebuilddb I think that will do it, I am sure somebody will correct me if I am wrong. ;-) HTH Fred - Original Message - From: "cyberclay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 8:59 PM Subject: [newbie] serious rpm problem > He

[newbie] logrotate

2001-01-08 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi all! I have a server that is running 7.1, and as of the past week or two I have been having problems with logrotate. The crazy thing just keeps going! I will come into work and the hard drive will be chugging away, the only way I can get it to stop is by killing logrotate. Over the weekend,

Re: [newbie]StarOffice5.2 Printer set-up

2001-01-04 Thread Fred Schroeder
Yes, is there a way to set up printing in 7.2 like it was in 7.1? I have had all kinds of trouble with CUPS, never had a problem before this "improved" system. thanks! Fred - Original Message - From: "marcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 8:

Re: [newbie] re ssh

2000-11-21 Thread Fred Schroeder
http://www.openssh.com - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 8:24 AM Subject: [newbie] re ssh > Does mandrake 7.1 come with a ssh server on it? > If not, can anyone suggest one thats easy to install can configure!(rpm pa

Re: [newbie] No NUMBER lock?

2000-11-20 Thread Fred Schroeder
(Note that this is straight from the man page for setleds.) For X, you need to edit the file '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/types/basic'. The last section of the file is the "KEYPAD" section and looks like: type "KEYPAD" { modifiers = Shift+NumLock; map[None] = Level1; map[Shift] = Level2; map[NumLock]

[newbie] Slow Gnome App startups

2000-11-20 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 7.2, and all seems to be well, except that it seems when I start Gnome apps while in KDE, they take forever to pop up. I start them, get the spinning disk on the taskbar, then it will go away, and sometimes 4 or five minutes later the app will pop up. I tried starti

Re: [newbie] User can't login

2000-09-11 Thread Fred Schroeder
ry first. Let me know if I'm right or wrong. > > Thanks!! > > Steve Weltman > > - Original Message - > From: Fred Schroeder > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 9:01 AM > Subject: [newbie] User can't login > > > Hi, > I h

[newbie] User can't login

2000-09-11 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi, I hope that this isn't a FAQ, but I have looked and have not found anything yet.  My problem is that I installed Mandrake 7.1 with the security on paranoid, and now when I try to login as a user, it just comes back up to the login again.  The only way that I can login is as root.  Can a

Re: [newbie] Anything like "Quicken"?

2000-08-05 Thread Fred Schroeder
You can try GnuCash, or there is also a program that is pure Java called Moneydance. You should be able to find them on Linuxburg, or goto www.gnucash.org Fred - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 12:09 PM Sub

Re: [newbie] Zip Drive

2000-08-05 Thread Fred Schroeder
Post a copy of your /etc/fstab file. also, do you have a directory on your system such as, /mnt/zip or /mnt/zipdrive or something along that line? Fred - Original Message - From: Marcia Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:26 PM Subject: [newbie

[newbie] Ejecting Zip Disk

2000-08-04 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi, I posted this earlier, but never saw it on the mailing list and didn't get a responce so will try again.   I have an internal zip drive and Mandrake 7.1, when I use the zip icon on the desktop I can use the zip drive, but it will not let me eject the disk when I am done, or want to change

[newbie] ejecting zip disk

2000-08-04 Thread Fred Schroeder
Hi! I have just installed Mandrake 7.1, but haven't been able to figure out this zip drive thing. I have an internal zip drive, and can mount the drive with the icon that 7.1 put on the desktop, but I don't know how to unmount the drive, to eject the disk. If I try umount, it tells me that t