Re: [newbie] test linuxconf

2002-09-27 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I'm running MDK 9 RC2 (haven't upgraded to final even though I downloaded the cd's a couple days ago... ) and both are working fine for me. I can pull up linuxconf from the kde menu but have to launch netconf from the command line. -Gary On Thursday 26 September 2002 11:53 pm, s

Re: [newbie] mdk9.0

2002-09-27 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Friday 27 September 2002 04:06 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scribbled something about: At 10:56 PM 9/26/2002 -0400, you wrote: s wrote: On Thursday 26 September 2002 09:08 pm, Colin Jenkins wrote: Hi all, Just got 9.0 running after much hair tearing. d/l'd the iso's, checksum was

[newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
This is very strange. Up until this morning when I would click a link in KMail, Konq would open and show the page. This morning I sit down, click a link, and up pops Quanta!!! No settings were changed since last night and it was working fine when I went to bed. Can anyone tell me

Re: [newbie] Default browser for links within KMail???

2002-09-26 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Which version of kde are you using? I'm using 3.0.3 and I don't see that in the menu. I have startconfigurationkde but no file browsing within that menu. -Gary On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:43 pm, bascule scribbled something about: by experimenting i've found that kmail

Re: [newbie] More reasons to Hate M$hit. Creative too, which I'm getting pretty p'ed off with...

2002-09-25 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 07:00 am, robin scribbled something about: Charlie M. wrote: On Tuesday 24 September 2002 4:27 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: snip I know it won't do anything except make me feel better. However this is a copy of an e-mail I sent to the AMD hardware support

Re: [newbie] Stumped with Galeon KDE.=

2002-09-25 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 03:13 pm, FemmeFatale scribbled something about: I have loaded KDE Galeon alot... but in this recent install I found an extremely strange problem. Galeon, my fave browser, will crash instantly in KDE when i fire it up. Any other WM is just dandy! If

Re: [newbie] OT: Won't boot if headless

2002-09-24 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 07:21 am, Warren Post scribbled something about: This is a hardware problem, not a Linux problem. But perhaps someone has faced this problem before. I've amazed my friends by setting up a Linux-firewall-on-a-floppy in our city hall on an ancient 486 that was

[newbie] Cool linux clothing?

2002-09-24 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I've looked all over and I haven't found anything that really catches my eye or has a catchy slogan or phrase. With all of the activity creating themes and everything else to personalize linux the way we want, I thought it would be easy to find tshirts that show my love for linux when

Re: [newbie] Constant computer crashes

2002-09-23 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I had this same problem on two machines running dual Athlon MP's. Earlier versions of Mandrake and other distros would lock up a lot. Some distros and versions would not even install. One thing that I tried was swapping the processors so that the voltage leveled out. I had read

[newbie] TuxRacer frame rate problem.

2002-09-23 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I'm using Mandrake 9.0 RC2 and when I try to play TuxRacer, using an Nvidia GeForce 2 card, the low frame rate makes the game nearly unplayable. I've played the game before, about a year ago on a different machine and the frame rate was great. I'm using a dual Atlon MP system with 512

Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem

2002-09-23 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Install the correct drivers for my hardware?!?!?! Are you kidding? Unfortunately, no I have not. I tried to install what I think was the correct driver package from Nvidia but I wasn't able to get it to work so I reverted back to the default, which works great for everything

Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem

2002-09-23 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
You can get the .src.rpm files from NVidia, get the NVIDIA-GLX and NVIDIAkernel source rpms. I think they are still the 1.0-2960.src.rpm files. Down load them to a directory in home named as you like it. Then from a console su and give root password, at the prompt do rpm --rebuild NVIDIA*

Re: [newbie] re Tux racer frame rate problem

2002-09-23 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
something about: Em Seg 23 Set 2002 17:18, Gary Traffanstedt escreveu: Hi! If you follow the link below instructions you'll be a happy tux racing player (with gf2!) What are the proper steps to take to install the linux drivers provided by Nvidia? I have a GeForce 2 and Mandrake 9.0 RC2

[newbie] Evolution Qustions

2001-11-16 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
Two questions about Evolution: First, does anyone know how to enable the tab key in Evolution? When I hit tab to indent, nothing happens. It works perfectly fine in KMail, but not at all in Evolution. Secondly, does anyone know how to add another city to the weather area of the summary

Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions

2001-11-16 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
did a search of my system trying to find the file or files that control how it retrieves weather data but wasn't able to locate it or them. -Gary On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 10:07, Dave Sherman wrote: On Fri, 2001-11-16 at 09:10, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: Two questions about Evolution

Re: [newbie] Evolution Qustions

2001-11-16 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
-11-16 at 12:58, Gary Traffanstedt wrote: That's strange that the tab works for you but not me. It works fine in everything else. As for being able to add another city, I need to add one that is not on the list. There is a close one on the list, but I'd like to add my own. Was just wondering

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for Linux?

2001-11-02 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
As long as you don't run everything as root, or change the ownership of all your files to a common user, you should be safe. Linux is not vulnerable like Windows due to a bit of common sense during the design stage. Note that Macintosh systems are not as vulnerable as Windows either.

[newbie] Anyone able to play DVD movies?

2001-11-02 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
it to work. It's in two pieces and the first one works but the second part never can find the first part. Mandrake does a great job with my sound files. Now if I can just get my movies to work, I'll be able to dump WInblows for good! -- Gary Traffanstedt Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] MSN.com and MS in general.

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I don't think designing sites that don't work in IE is the answer. I also don't think designing sites that are 100% cross-browser compatible is really an answer either. Microsoft has done a lot to ensure that certain things only work or work better with their products. To combat

Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I had a similar problem. For me I just needed to manually mount the cd and then it would use it. It ejects the tray, I put the cd in, close the tray and click ok, then it ejects the tray again and repeats the same message. I finally figured out that if I simply mount the cd on the

Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks

2001-10-30 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
what the command prompt is but I don't know squat of commands. Does linux have a page of command definitions or something I could look up and print out? Sorry Rob - Original Message - From: Gary Traffanstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-14 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:40, you wrote: on 9/13/01 2:44 PM, Charles A Edwards at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was saying that all resolutions are supported except for 24bpp. I could run 32bpp in both linux and windows as well as 16bpp and all lower settins but Not 24bpp. Heh heh, I

Re: [newbie] maximal mount count error

2001-09-14 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Friday 14 September 2001 08:47, you wrote: When I boot up, I sometimes get a maximal mount count error, check forced. What does this mean? How do I avoid it? _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: [newbie] This is a linux mailing list

2001-09-14 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I think the argument of whether or not various topics should be allowed in this list or not has gotten a bit out of hand. Lets quickly look at both sides and see if we can come to a conclusion. First we have those that want to post about seemingly unrelated topics. Should

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-13 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
On Thursday 13 September 2001 12:06, you wrote: on 9/13/01 5:48 PM, Paul at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In reply to Mark's words, written Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:44:09 +0100 Looks like your hardware is not happy with more colors. So either you have to do with 800x600 or the 8bit technicolor

Re: [newbie] Screen Resolution Problem

2001-09-13 Thread Gary Traffanstedt
I have a Riva TNT2 with 16MB of RAM. Mandrake recognized the card fine during install, but when setting the resolution it says 24bpp is not supported for this card. Also if I try to set my res to 1280x?? it will instead keep it at 1024x768 and give me a 1280x?? virtual desktop. It's one of