Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf

1999-11-02 Thread Gustavo Viola
- Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf On Mon, 01 Nov 1999, you wrote: Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of

Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf

1999-11-02 Thread Gustavo Viola
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 01, 1999 11:23 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Resolv.conf On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 08:35:32PM -0200, Gustavo Viola wrote: Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving

[newbie] Resolv.conf

1999-11-01 Thread Gustavo Viola
Been forced to send this msg under the other OS, since kppp is misbehaving. I had one of those misconfigurations of etc/resolv.conf -- although I am not sure how that happened to begin with, since I haven't fooled with it lately -- that have been mentiond in the list so often. As root, I wrote

[newbie] EZ-drive

1999-10-13 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sáb, 09 out 1999, Manny Styles wrote: Big Snip The Maxtor drive came with EZ-Drive, but that doesn't affect linux in any way since it can see large drives with no BIOS changes. Manny Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is it possible to have a drive with EZ-Drive with *both* Windows and

Re: [newbie] Netscape Tinytype

1999-10-13 Thread Gustavo Viola
On qua, 13 out 1999, Art wrote: %_The type on Netscape is SOOO tiny, I can barely read it. The Font size increase/decrease menu items are greyed out. How can I make the Netscape font size readable? Hi Art, Take a look at www.mandrakeuser.org in its X-Windows fonts section. It is pretty

Re: [newbie] Multiprocessor and Display

1999-09-30 Thread Gustavo Viola
On qua, 29 set 1999, bay56 wrote: Ah, yes - you could try some hardware monitoring software - Sandra from scisoft, and an assortment from Entech should get you all the info you could wish for - just need to snoop the settings you use in Win - write em down, paste em in! Should be reasonably

Re: [newbie] StatrOffice 5.1

1999-09-28 Thread Gustavo Viola
I extracted StarOffice 5.1 RPM (as root, which has writing privileges everywhere) to the /opt, default directory in that specific *. RPM. Logged out from root and as _user_ I did a network (2MB) install (opt/SOffice51/setup or /opt/SOffice51/kde/install or something like that) in /home/user.

Re: [newbie] TT Fonts

1999-09-28 Thread Gustavo Viola
At www.mandrakeuser.org you will find a link to the Font Deuglification FAQ. It can help you out with True Type fonts. Regards, /Gustavo. - Original Message - From: Frank Hilliard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:07 PM Subject: [newbie] TT

Re: [newbie] RPM shared libraries error

1999-09-25 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sáb, 25 set 1999, you wrote: rpm -V glibc, says? Same error: rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory /Gustavo. On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: When I try running kpackage (or rpm, for that matter) I

Re: [newbie] RPM shared libraries error

1999-09-25 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sáb, 25 set 1999, Richard Adams wrote: SNIP rpm: error in loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory /Gustavo. SNIP When I try running kpackage (or rpm, for that matter) I get the following error message:

Re: [newbie] Gustavo wins No Life Award (Off Topic)

1999-09-23 Thread Gustavo Viola
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, David P. Greenberg wrote: --On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: These links may help anyone who is into "managing microwaves" through Linux: snip That's it! Gustavo wins the all time "No Life Internet Surfing Award." Thanks!! My friends

Re: [newbie] What does Helios mean?

1999-09-22 Thread Gustavo Viola
What about Panoramix? Is it after the druid in Asterix? - Original Message - From: Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 1999 12:56 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] What does "Helios" mean? Sevatio Octavio wrote: Is "Helios" just a name for

[newbie] Microwave and Chix

1999-09-22 Thread Gustavo Viola
These links may help anyone who is into "managing microwaves" through Linux: http://sdcc10.ucsd.edu/~swbrown/ppower/index.html http://members.home.net/ncherry/ AFAIK, these home automation software can already switch lights on and off (and even dim them!) but I could not find any specific info

Re: [newbie] Id mo

1999-09-20 Thread Gustavo Viola
- Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Gustavo Viola wrote: Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." snip grep 'mo' /etc/inittab

Re: [newbie] Modem Config

1999-09-20 Thread Gustavo Viola
I have a USR Courier internal. It would not work under Linux if jumpered for PnP. To have it properly installed, I: 1) logged in Windows, checked under "System Settings" which COM and IRQ Win98 was using through PnP; 2) jumpered the modem for the proper COM and IRQ, disabling PnP. 3) under

[newbie] Id mo

1999-09-18 Thread Gustavo Viola
Every now and then I get this message in my console: INIT: "Id "mo" respawning too fast. Disabled for 5 minutes." What is this "mo"? Why is it respawing, and how can I make it stop? I couldn't find anything about it in the list archives. Any help appreciated, Thanks. /Gustavo.

Re: [newbie] Windows Manger and Umount Problem

1999-09-17 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sex, 17 set 1999, you wrote: 1. How do I change my default window manager? You can try changing runlevels but I don't know how to do that. But from KDE you can go to System Desktop Switching Tool and choose a window manager; from Gnome there is a similar utility, can't recall the name

Re: [newbie] GO

1999-09-17 Thread Gustavo Viola
Nope, I cheated. :-) http://udel.edu/~mm/anime/speed/startup/ /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- I tried to contain myself, but I escaped. - Original Message - From: Ripcrd6 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 17, 1999 1

Re: [newbie] Compiling/Dev Packages

1999-09-14 Thread Gustavo Viola
Hi, Bash tells me it doesn´t recognize the "make" command. I assume that is so because I neglected to install development packages at setup... Does anyone know where to find the proper RPMs in the 6.0 dist. cd? Mandrake/RPMS -- Steve Philp Network Administrator Advance

[newbie] Compiling/Dev Packages

1999-09-13 Thread Gustavo Viola
Hi, Bash tells me it doesn´t recognize the "make" command. I assume that is so because I neglected to install development packages at setup... Does anyone know where to find the proper RPMs in the 6.0 dist. cd? Thanks in advance, /Gustavo

RE: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-12 Thread Gustavo Viola
Hi, I managed to work around the mounting/read-write/permission problem, and you may want to hear how I did. But first, thanks to John Aldrich, Fred PLE, Dan Brown and Ken Wilson, who helped me a lot, and to those who may have written back but I haven't got the message yet, since the list

[newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-11 Thread Gustavo Viola
Hello all, Every time I boot I have to tell Linux to mount my secondary master, a MS-Dos disk. I believe there is a way to do that automatically, either in one of the initialization files or in an item on the desktop (such as the ones for the CD-Rom and Floppy), but have not found a trace of

Re: [newbie] Mount hd on boot

1999-09-11 Thread Gustavo Viola
On sáb, 11 set 1999, you wrote: On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, you wrote: Hello all, Every time I boot I have to tell Linux to mount my secondary master, a MS-Dos disk. I believe there is a way to do that automatically, either in one of the initialization files or in an item on the desktop

Re: [newbie] newbie-forced to post this in Win95

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
a message like this: "loading ez-bios extensions"] ). I ran into that problem when installing Mandrake over the weekend, and found no solution to it -- or else, now I use hard drive "drawers" to decide which OS I am going to use, I love that, it´s cool. :-) Gustavo

Re: [newbie] Questions about dual booting

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
computer for hours... /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Frisbyterianism: When you die, your soul goes up on the roof. No I have it now if you run KDE app finder it adds the gnome stuff to the KDE menus. Jeanette - Original Message - From: alann

Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
about that. - Quanto a isso, não faço a menor, desculpas. Thank you. You´re welcome. - De nada. Qualquer coisa é só perguntar, se eu puder ajudar... -- João Carlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil - SP ICQ - 33.965.439 usuário Linux # 106644 /Gustavo Viola ß^» ---

Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
The first language is English. :-) The second is Portuguese. Cheers, /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- The refrigerator light DOES go out. Now let me out of here. - Original Message - From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
Or changing keymaps? Any Portuguese/Spanish/French/Italian/Swedish/Any Language -speaking people who have dealt with a similar issue? /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- He does the work of 3 Men...Moe, Larry Curly. - Original Message - From: stephan s

Re: [newbie] Brazilian keybord and Quake 1

1999-09-10 Thread Gustavo Viola
do site da conectiva.) best regards, (um abraco,) Rodrigo Olá (Hello), Muito obrigado! Vc sabe em qual diretório eu devo acrescentá-lo para que o kbdconfig o aceite? (Thank you so much! Do you know which directory it should be added to so that kbdconfig will acknowledge it?) Obrigado de novo

[newbie] International Keybard Setup; KDE and Gnome

1999-09-09 Thread Gustavo Viola
e if these questions have been answered previously. /Gustavo Viola ß^» --- Put knot yore trussed inn spel chequers