[newbie] Printing to SMB printer.

if this is a Samba problem or a printer problem. If there is something that I need to do to the win2000 box it's no problem; I have admin access to it. Any help will be very greatly appreciated. I'd hate to have to go back to Windows. Thanks, Glen Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Playing CD's through SB live SPDIF socket

Mark, Thanks for the tip, although messing with the sliding controls had no effect, still nothing when playing a CD. I tried both the digital sliders amongst others. I still believe the EMU10K1 driver (or OSS) require some settings that arn't enabled by default. Thanks again Glen

[newbie] Playing CD's through SB live SPDIF socket

Hi, I have my CD drive connected via the SPDIF internal socket to my SB live card. At the moment, I cannot play CD's though linux (LM8.0) Has any one any experience of this, what settings do I need ? Thanks in advance Glen Swindell

[newbie] Playing .avi's

and neither are found. If anybody can either give me some clues as to how I might get a successful install or can point me toward another player for Divx avi's I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Glen

Re: [newbie] Installing Interbase Super-Server on LM8

user or via root. Thanks to all the sources on the Web, especially MERS.COM and the IBPheonix project (www.ibpheonix.com) Glen On Sunday 13 May 2001 21:51, you wrote: Hi, I am trying to install the Interbase 6.01 SuperServer on to my LM 8 install. I am getting the INET/inet_error: connect

[newbie] Dell 4100 install failure - PCI bridge problem?

ridge Intel 2440 rev 02 00:1f.1 IDE interface Intel 2446 rev 02 00:1f.2 USB controller Intel 2442 rev 02 00:1f.3 SMBus Intel 2443 rev 02 Am I outa luck with 7.2? Am I bleeding-edge-beta-bait for next version (8.0)? Is there a way to get 7.2 to recongize my PCI bridge? Is this even my problem

Re: [newbie] Cannot Execute binary file

BamBam, Tarballs are collections of files, which may contain executable files. You might try unpacking the tarball first with: tar -xzf foo.tar.gz on the console command line. The "-xzf" options to "tar" does extract, convert from gnuzip, with disk file as the source. THEN look for executables.

Re: [newbie] GCC

yes, try "./a.out" The problem is that your home directory is not in your PATH - Original Message - From: "Robert Reed" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 1:52 AM Subject: [newbie] GCC Hello, I just installed Linux today, and then installed the

Re: [newbie] I am really such a beginner...

Richard, You must become "root" to change configurations rather than just a regular user. Root can do powerful (and potentially disastrous) changes to your system, so best not to be "root" all the time. The command line: su which stands for super user, asks for root's login and password.

Re: [newbie] HELP!!!

Matt, Ok, your video card is found, that's good. But you ALSO need to know some info about your monitor. Most important is the rate at which vertical and horizontal scanning is done. The default VGA-type video rates are 31.5 KHz horizontal and 60 Hz vertical. This'd give you standard

[newbie] configuring net connection

server. Thanks, Glen - Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502 588622 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.designsolution.co.uk Nouvotech House, Harbour Road, Oulton Broad, Suffolk, NR32 3LZ, UK -

Re: [newbie]

At 02:35 15/10/00, emerhawk wrote: I'm asking for a frend. Is there a dist. for an amega machine. Emerhawk Do you mean Amiga? Start here, http://www.amiga.com - Glen - Design Solution Limited t: +44 (0)1502 513008 f: +44 (0)1502

[newbie] Mail system -- How?

which is a text based program. Looks OK! MUTT also looks OK. What along with a client I've seen so many statements like, sendmail, fetchmail etc. etc. I would love to set a decent mail system up under LINUX could someone send me in the right direction? :) Thanks for reading this. Glen -- ~~|| Glen

[newbie] Can't load startx: error ;(

to :0.0 broken explicit kill or server shutdown -- cut Now when loading LINUX the X font server starts [ OK ] But when shutting down I get [ FAILED ] It's just happened when I booted LINUX - I have made no changes and as far as I am aware I shutdown the system OK. Thanks everyone. Glen

[newbie] Thanks everyone for Mozilla help!

Thanks all for your message regarding Mozilla - Can't try it yet because of my startx problem. But nice for everyone to be so helpful. Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Where do Programs Go?

that bad. :) Wouldn't mind keeping in touch for moral support? :) Glen At 16:29 15/04/00 +0100, andy barnes wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Mozilla - How to use it once downloaded.

? :) Help . . . . Glen

[newbie] Can't shutdown

Hi all, This seems a strange problem but whenever I'm logged into LINUX as a user I can't shutdown, i..e go into a terminal - says no command. But if I log in as root, I can. Is this right? :( Glen

[newbie] pthread.h

I'm trying to install a package called Magellan - it needs pthread.h - Does Linux Mandrake 7 come with this? Thanks. Glen BTW, Thanks for your help Steve for the previous question :)

[newbie] Probably a simple question.

Hello all, Could someone explain the follwowing; In DOS if I were to take a look at say the CDROM drive, i.e. D: I would either type D: etc. or dir D: What about in LINUX for a CDROM, A: etc. etc. how do I interigate the relevant drive? Thanks. Glen

[newbie] Fetchmail

Hello All, Trying to set up fetchmail - this is my .fetchmailrc file: poll mail.uk2.net protocol pop3 user "t" password "x" However when I run fetchmail --check it says 'no mailservers have been specified' Anyone? Glen

[newbie] Questions on KMail

Hello all, Could someone help with the following please; What is the latest released of KMail? Are there FAQs on it? Are there better clients? Does anyone know if I could import MBXs etc. from Windows Eudora? Thanks :) Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Sound

Hello all, Using Mandrake 7 - Is there a util to configure sound cards and system sounds etc.? Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] LILO

Hello all, I'm new to this list. And CERTAINLY new to LINUX :) I have a dual boot system with Windows and LINUX Mandrake. Could someone tell me how I change LILO to boot Windows by default? i.e. if a key isn't pressed! Else, I'll confuse the other half! g Thanks. GLen -- ~~|| Glen M

[newbie] Questions

where I need to put my POP3 settings etc. etc for my ISP HOW do I get LINUX to get a text promot logon. i.e. without the graphical version? That's it :)... for now? Err, could somebody point out a good site to go to for newbie info? Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] LILO

Thank you :) At 22:40 07/04/00 +0200, flupke wrote: Glen M. Chambers wrote: Hello all, I'm new to this list. And CERTAINLY new to LINUX :) I have a dual boot system with Windows and LINUX Mandrake. Could someone tell me how I change LILO to boot Windows by default? i.e. if a key isn't

[newbie] Thank you.

Hello all, I must admit I've only been on this list for a short time and I have had so much help from lots of people. Thank you. BTW, is there a "better" Email client available apart from KMail. I'm used to Eudora for Windows which is feature rich. Thanks all agaain. Glen -- ~

[newbie] How to change resolution in X

Hi, I'm using KDE and want to change the resolution to 1280*1024 - Can't figure out how tho' Thanks. Glen -- ~~|| Glen M. Chambers ||~~ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] very much a newbie

Hi I'm not running linux but I soon will be I have a cd copy of mandrake 6.1 and what to have the upgrade to 7.0 downloaded before I put 6.1 on my question is where do I download the upgrade from this my seem a dumb question but I have no experience with Unix os's at all so please be kind

[newbie] News reader???

( Probably do to my inexperience using linux ). Learning linux is both fun and frustrating at times but I haven't used windows98 in over a month so I would like to think I am getting there. Thanks in advance Glen

[newbie] Virus Protection

Is there a virus protection software package for Linux? Where can I get it if there is??? Thanks in advance Glen