[newbie] What happened to KWord and KSpread?

2005-01-21 Thread Jerry Lapham
In Mandrake 8.2, I was able to use both KWord and KSpread. They seem to be missing in 10.1. KDE Help Center shows blank pages for Word Processor and Spreadsheet. -Jerry -- = Jerry Lapham Monroe, OH 45050 [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] LogDrake Infinite Loop?

2004-07-20 Thread Jerry Cornelius
One other oddity, though. When leaving LogDrake using the Save button, the system starts chomping at 100% CPU. I watched it do that for 7 minutes and then closed the window and tried again with the same result. It has all the appearance of an infinite loop (100% CPU, then a drop to about 98%,

Re: [newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts SOLVED

2004-07-20 Thread Jerry Cornelius
On Monday 19 July 2004 08:39 pm, Jerry Cornelius wrote: > On Monday 19 July 2004 01:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > ->I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. > > Every ->hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm > &g

Re: [newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts

2004-07-19 Thread Jerry Cornelius
On Monday 19 July 2004 01:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > ->I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. > Every ->hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting > an email ->which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body > of the email

[newbie] Blank LogDrake Mail Alerts

2004-07-18 Thread Jerry Cornelius
I asked about this 3 days ago and got one response which didn't help. Every hour, about 24 times a day (though some are skipped), I'm getting an email which says it's a logDrake Mail Alert in the subject. The body of the email has the date and time. There is no other information. Is it tryin

Re: [newbie] Postfix problem?

2004-07-17 Thread Jerry Cornelius
all ) some time back untill they mailed me as told me OOPS )) > anyway i changed my aliases for root to my own account ... the end.. )) > there is a line in /etc/postfix/aliases root: root <-- change it to you > > On Friday 16 Jul 2004 H:57, Jerry Cornelius wrote: > > I've

[newbie] Postfix problem?

2004-07-16 Thread Jerry Cornelius
I've been getting one of these emails every hour for the last 2 days. It's not very descriptive. Can anyone tell me what's going on? =-=-= Status: R Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from me.porcupine.tld ([67.101.35.24]) by killdeer (EarthLink SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 1bLti

Re: [newbie] fuji finepix 2400

2004-05-03 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 01 May 2004 15:09:45 -0400 Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2004-05-01 at 07:04, Bill Winegarden wrote: > > Hi, > > I was going to try getting the fuji finepix 2400 going again in LM10. A search > > through the archives indicated a few threads, all seeming to indicate tha

[newbie] Samba security update?

2004-04-20 Thread Jerry Cornelius
I found this on my available updates tonight: "All versions of Samba prior to 2.2.8a are vulnerable. The provided updates contain a patch from the Samba Team to correct the issue." Oddly, the filename of the update is samba-client-2.2.7a-9.3.91mdk. Was there a typo in the description or is th

Re: [newbie] Palm sync out of the box – anyone?

2004-04-19 Thread Jerry Cornelius
On Sunday 18 April 2004 04:59 pm, David Williams wrote: > > I had a Visor Deluxe and now have a Palm Vx. I couldn't get KPilot to work, > but I haven't had any real problem with Jpilot. > DBW Kpilot worked just fine here with my Palm Vx, and it's working here now with my Kyocera 7135. __

Re: [newbie] Installing Bochs under Mandrake PPC 9.1

2004-04-14 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:56:10 -0700 John Dennis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have not installed Mandrake yet but wanted the answer to this > question first. I have some software that I need to run in Windows and > will have to install Bochs to take care of this need. I basically > wanted to

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED

2004-04-06 Thread Jerry
etely about the cooker updates! I'll continue tooling around a bit. I tried a couple of things but niether has quite seemed to work as well in 10 CE as it did in 9.2. (Using the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels). I'm sure it'll work out sooner or later in 10. Pe

Re: [newbie] Attempting to install mplayerplugin for mozilla.

2004-04-06 Thread Jerry
l install even if you get the contrib error. I answered the contrib error problem in a previous thread but maybe it's worth repeating. as root: rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib will stop those error messages without interfering with

Re: [newbie] Problems with urpmi

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
updated was bad > and the mirror was not up to date. Is there any way to fix this > problem? what I did to fix it: (as root) rm /var/lib/urpmi/list.contrib I no longer get those "there was a problem durring installation: medium contrib uses an invalid

Re: [newbie] Broken Shift Key

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 11:43:09 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:08:29 -0800 > Aron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > New keyboard time but first turn it upside down and give it a vigorus > > shaking you won' believe the crap that's gonna fall out. I us

Re: [newbie] Building a binary from a src RPM

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
/RPM/SPECS mkdir /root/RPM/RPMS mkdir /root/RPM/BUILD mkdir /root/RPM/SRPMS and mkdir /root/RPM/ where is the archetecture you're building for (in my case it'd be /root/RPM/RPMS/i586) (usually there are i386, i586, i686, athlon, k6, and noarch subdirs under the RPM dir) though why i

Re: [newbie] Java in Mdk 10

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
gt; > Thanks, > Carl The problem I had with it was the path was (not sure how to phrase this...) 'too deep.' I had it in /home/jerry/java/j2sdk1.4.2_03/jre/plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32/ and moving it to /usr/java worked. (what I did:) su mkdir /usr/java mv /home/jerry/java/j2sdk1.4.

Re: [newbie] hosting my own web site

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 4 Apr 2004 08:04:44 -0400 et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would also make sure I was NOT running mod_proxy... that was the 'mailing > exploit' mentioned in an earlier message. > Is just disabling mod_proxy in webmin enough to cover it or would one need to uninstall something? T

Re: [newbie] Re: OpenGL/Mesa broken? -- SOLVED

2004-04-05 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:12:42 -0600 Chuck Mattsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My messages sent over the past 24-36 hours have not made the list, as > far as I can tell, so this may not, either. :-) But, in case the mail > server eventually gets the enema it apparently needs, I should report > th

Re: [newbie] Re: Follow-Up: About your Internet connection problems

2004-03-31 Thread Jerry Cornelius
> > QUESTION > > = > > > > I took this email and others like it to be a scam > > Is that correct ??? > > > > John Notice that the URL for the scan is one domain, the URL for the privacy policy and "unsubscribing" are 2 other, and completely different, URLs. Notice that the physical addre

Re: [newbie] Digital Camera and Mandrake 10

2004-03-26 Thread Jerry
; > If I attempt to mount the camera currently my system will freeze. Any > advice? I had the same problem with mine. I installed the 2.4 kernel that came with mdk 10. I boot to it instead and the camera works fine. hope that helps Jerry. _

Re: [newbie] ntfs read/write?

2004-03-17 Thread Jerry
afe to say N here. So with the re-write it looks like maybe I can't do it, right? Or am I on the wrong track? Jerry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] ntfs read/write?

2004-03-16 Thread Jerry
7;: Read-only file system I tried also adding rw to options but still got the same result. /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,rw 0 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Documents]# touch test.txt touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED] My Documents

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:32:34 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Jerry, > What kernel does mdk10 use? I did some googling and found out that kernel > 2.6.3 has problem with digital camera. > You can read it at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECT

[newbie] ntfs read/write?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
is it actually possible to write to NTFS partitions now? and how would one go about doing it? Jerry. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Beep Media Player

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
eds the envvar of WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5 set to 1, looking at /usr/lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl export WANT_AUTOCONF_2_5=1 I'll try it and see. Jerry. [EMAIL PROTECTED] jerry]$ ls -al /usr/bin/auto* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Mar 12 03:00 /usr/bin/autoconf -> ../lib/autoconf/ac-wrapper.pl* -

Re: [newbie] adding win boot to boot loader

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
edit lilo.conf and you can add your windows boot then save lilo.conf and run: lilo it should output something like: Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe Added windows Added floppy just as a guideline, my windows entry looks like this: other=/dev/hda1 label="windows"

Re: [newbie] WinAmp 5 clone

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
half of one song and the first half of the next. OR: is there a way to have it put a number before the filename in succession for each it saves (so i get 01-filename1mp3, 02-filename3.mpg, etc) so you could decode to .wav and cat it all together? Thanks Jerry. Want to bu

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-14 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 18:32:03 +0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quoting "Troy T. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Not listed as /dev/sda1? Strange. > However, you can watch what is happening by doing: > tail -f /var/log/messages when you plug-in the camera. > > > > Mar 14 09:36:35 localhost kerne

Re: [newbie] urpmi database locked

2004-03-13 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 09:39:06 -0700 Tim Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was downloading the mandrake update list and lost my internet > connection. Now when I use urpmi it says that my database is locked. > Does anyone know how to unlock it? > > Tim > > > rm /var/lib/urpmi/.LOCK and

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-13 Thread Jerry
me. Some output from dmesg attached as dmesg.txt. Maybe someone can make some sense of it. It looks to me like maybe kernel 2.6.3 isn't quite up to snuff on usb mass storage? Is that what I can infer from it? Jerry. dmesg.txt Description: Binary data Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] GAIM, alternative to gaim for yahoo

2004-03-13 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 15:51:05 +0100 Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/13/2004 03:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >The same with me. Have you tried downloading and using the original ymessenger > >from yahoo? It's better. > > > I did not bother. There was only 1 person I knew on Yahooch

Re: [newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-13 Thread Jerry
; > I'm sure it's probably right under my nose but that's probably why I can't > > find it... it's a pretty big nose :O) > > > > TIA > > Jerry. > Take a look at harddrake and see if it shows you anything there. Otherwise try > looking

[newbie] camera-usb mass storage what dev is it?

2004-03-12 Thread Jerry
'camrea') Module: Removable:camera Media class: Mass Storage|SFF-8070i I've tried rebooting, modprobing usb-storage (usb-uhci is already in from my usb mouse). I'm sure it's probably right under my nose but that's probably why I can't find it... it's a pretty big no

Re: [newbie] access denied - Tip

2004-02-22 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 14:46:46 -0500 Marc Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try going into a terminal, and typing 'su', then your password. Then, > from the terminal, open whatever program you were using to move the > files(i.e. if you were using konqueror, type 'konqueror'.) This is a > root ve

Re: [newbie] Installing 9.2 with the latest and greatest (stable)

2004-02-21 Thread Jerry Barton
working for the 2.6 kernel? Jerry. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Switch Window Managers

2004-02-17 Thread Jerry Barton
wmaker, xfce (nice but takes a lot of setup if you ask me), KDE, GNOME, blackbox, fluxbox, xpde(UGH!), qvwm(UGH! again!), and a bunch of others and always come back to icewm. Ion was a fun one... confusing as all get out though. Could be just that I'm comfortable with it and that, in turn, cou

Re: [newbie] How to clear autologin

2004-02-11 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 09:27:03 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried ctl-alt-F1, F2, Delete, Backspace. No response just that ugly > green screen with two white bars and a watch. > Regards; > Hoyt try booting into failsafe and at the prompt type: init 3 then it'll run a few th

Re: [newbie] ICS-everything works but www

2004-02-07 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:38:28 -0700 Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nevermind shorewall won't even start under 2.6 now :-/ -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am in your address book, please remove me.

[newbie] ICS-everything works but www

2004-02-07 Thread Jerry Barton
to do this and not shorewall which is what is being used now. Any pointers on where to start looking would be greatly appreciated. This is the one thing keeping me from upgrading to a 2.6 kernel permanantly. If i need to post any .confs please let me know which. Thanks in advance! :-) Jerry -

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-07 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 20:35:59 + Kaj Haulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry, I like your signature. Can I use it too, please ? > > Kaj Haulrich. Sure, feel free. -- If you use Microsoft Windows you do not have permission to add this address to your address book. If I am

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-07 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 06 Feb 2004 08:39:04 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry; Don't bother using the DrakGW package, but instead, > use the Shorewall Modeule in Webmin. That way you can do > your firewall and ICS at the same time. Just watch out for > the Route

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10 Beta2 and KDE3.2

2004-02-06 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 18:53:56 -0500 "Lanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This thing SMOKES! Granted it's lacking a lot of the normal > things, but WoW! Is it fast! I can hardly wait for this to > go to final release! Microsoft - Take note! There's a new > desktop in town, and you just became histo

Re: [newbie] Hyperterm app

2004-01-27 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 08:56:36 +0100 Anders Lind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello friends, > > I am looking for a hyperterminal similiar app for Unix...and so far I > haven't found anything, but I am very sure that something must be out > there. > > Cheers > Anders > > is something like minic

Re: [newbie] Fun and Totally useless.

2004-01-18 Thread Jerry Barton
as the character. they're in /usr/share/cows and the command is cowsay -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] jerry]$ cowsay -f /usr/share/cows/skeleton.cow BONE CHILLING! < BONE CHILLING! > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \ (__) \

Re: [newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:28:50 -0500 Rick Kunath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have the mplayer plugin installed in your /usr/lib/mozilla > directoty, it will open mplayer. > > Not all Windows formats are supported. > thanks, had the old version installed upgraded, and now i at least get a

Re: [newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 21:10:10 -0500 Rick Kunath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 17 January 2004 07:06 pm, Jerry Barton wrote: > > I'm trying to listen to an audio stream on > > http://www.crienglish.com/radio/index.htm > > > > The link to t

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:06:31 -0700 jason pearl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So can someone tell me is there really a difference between claws and > the regular version...??? i dont want to change if its the same.. i > was comparing what file descriptions say and they have the same > thing... cla

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed-claws - slight problem

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:34:18 +0200 Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I was running sylpheed. > I read about sylpheed-claws and installed that. > Now in folders Inbox -- CLUG -- Newbie shows in blue they have > files...but click on that and nothing shows. > There may have been files in

[newbie] audio stream: mms: unregisterd protocol

2004-01-17 Thread Jerry Barton
et this to work with xmms/mplayer/etc? When I click on the link(looks like an'eject' button) I just get an error saying mms: unregistered protocol. I tried using the CLI with mplayer but it didn't work. Any ideas? TIA. Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Reg

Re: [newbie] OT - CD repair kits-do they work?

2004-01-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:51:52 -0500 Todd Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter got to one of my CD's and scratched it all up. I've got it > as a low-quality ogg, but I definitely want to preserve the CD. Has > anybody tried those kits that are supposed to repair scratched CD's? > Do they

Re: [newbie] SCO goes after Google

2004-01-10 Thread Jerry Barton
next the craziness over the Osmonds, now this. I'll never admit to living in Utah again. SCO's the proverbial staw. At least I'm not in Lindon. X-D. Jerry (really. i'm from somewhere else!) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2004-01-10 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 12:50:10 -0800 Eric Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran kcontrol as root, and it seemed to feel that everything was > configured. We'll see if it happens next time, and if so, i'll look > into lisa some more. > > What did you do to fix it? > > thanks for the info, > eric

Re: [newbie] boot messages

2004-01-10 Thread Jerry Barton
oes it say something about 'no config - file run kcontrol to generate one'? if so for lisa (mine did it and it took rebooting quite a few times and watching closely to get what it was all about.) HTH Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)

2004-01-10 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 18:33:45 + Peter Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where did you find these sound fonts? Which cd? A Mandrake one? There are also a lot of them at http://www.sf2midi.com/ -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\

Re: [newbie] Internet Via Comcast

2004-01-09 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 8 Jan 2004 19:25:55 -0800 "John S. Chalice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there everybody.. > > Thanks in advance for any help with this. I searched the archive, but > couldn't quite find the answer to my query... but if anyone can help > me by merely pointing out the right entry, ple

Re: [newbie] uses an invalid list file

2004-01-04 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:00:44 + Derek Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think > rm /var/lib/urpmi/list. > is what you are looking for. > > derek Yep that's what fixed mine. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://

Re: [newbie] Realplayer Probs

2004-01-04 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:05:58 -0800 "E. Hines" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm thinkin' there be sumthin strange about the way 9.2 is handling > Mozilla plugins. I just put 9.2 on a test machine, and I could not > get the Flashplayer 6 plugin to appear. Both files were installed in > the plugins

Re: [newbie] Anyone else used MJPEGTools?

2004-01-02 Thread Jerry Barton
with other than the fact that it would probably have a dependancy to it if it was built with nasm support. I know that I did not have nasm installed but I did have the mjpegtools packages installed nonetheless so I'm *guessing* it's not. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (

Re: [newbie] Sylpheed

2004-01-01 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 05:04:20 + Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently using Sylpheed and wish to upgrade to Sylpheed-claws.. > Will I have to remove Sylpheed before I urpmi sylpheed-claws ?? urpmi should take care of it automatically if it does. -- _||_ Registered linux user #3006

Re: [newbie] medium "92_contrib" uses an invalid list file:

2003-12-26 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:02:34 + et <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Copy and pasted from cooker;;; > " > The well known message: > > medium "92_contrib" uses an invalid list file: > mirror is probably not up-to-date, trying to use alternate method > > is due to a bug into urpmi.addmedia which c

Re: [newbie] KDE Kmenu list of programs

2003-12-21 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 20:05:39 -0500 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But if I use a distribution other than Mandrake, this will not be the > case. For example, if I want to mimic the KDE menu currently in use > on my Mandrake box on a Debian box or Fedora box. I want to recreate > the o

Re: [newbie] Restarting the internet connection

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 20:34:06 +0200 robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What does HTH mean? "Hope That Helps" :-) -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] ??? ????????? 3COM 3C940 ? Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
> On Wednesday 17 December 2003 02:44 am, Genady Oliash wrote: > > ?? . > > > > ? 3COM 3C940 network card ? Mandrake 9.2. ??? > > ?? ?? ? Asus P4P800. ? ?? ??? ? > > Linux, ??? ???-?? ??? ??, ?? ???. > > > > ??

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
> Would you also be able to do this by booting to rescue mode with the > MDK install disk or by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering > here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this > same problem as well. Thx > > Jerry. Nevermind, Raffaele an

Re: [newbie] Can't boot after erasing unneeded disk

2003-12-17 Thread Jerry Barton
r by booting to single-user mode? Just wondering here if there may be an easier route since I may be encountering this same problem as well. Thx Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 + Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going > to boot/Drakboot then "advanced" and in the dropdown menu selecting > "lilo with text menu" inst

Re: [newbie] How do I remove the gui boot screen ?

2003-12-15 Thread Jerry Barton
out (though I can totally understand why you'd not want the whole blue splash screen thing) but wouldn't that fix it all? I hope this is of help to you. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] fstab digits 0 1 2

2003-12-14 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 21:48:46 +0200 Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > Please inform me what the last two digits mean in an fstab entry. > I have read it somewhere through the years and don't seem to be able > to find it again. > Thanks from tuxfiles.org: "The 5th column in /etc/fstab is

[newbie] How to apply pateches (was bittorrent installation)

2003-12-13 Thread Jerry Barton
diff files? An example would sure help. I'm not out to patch BitTorrent per se, but that would be a good example to use if someone could give me some pointers. I'm quite comfortable on the command line, there's just still a lot I haven't learned even after 2 years. Tha

Re: [newbie] make partition/dir r/w dor all

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 09:43:38 +0200 Johan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > /dev/hdg8 /mnt/backup ext3 rw,users,exec,auto,suid 0 0 > > What else need I put in this line to make it rw for all, Please. > I do not like to change to su every time I want to write something > there. > Looking in

Re: [newbie] XFontsel

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:59:49 -0500 JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for xfontsel, which apparently comes with XFree86-tools, > but I cannot find a Mandrake package with urpmi or even rpmfind.net. > > Anyone know where I can snag this? urpm

Re: [newbie] Reading PDF attachments from Mozilla containing spaces in the title

2003-12-12 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 12:24:13 -0800 Adrian Kuepker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We're having trouble opening PDFs directly from Mozilla(mdk9.2) that > contain a space in the file name. put %20 in place of the space like%20this%20for%20example.pdf -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_

Re: [newbie] Allow users to mount/umount the floppy

2003-12-11 Thread Jerry Barton
/~staffelb/guide_linux/part1/fstab.html It's where I figured out how to do it with my cdrom drive and digital camera. Make sure you make a copy of /etc/fstab before you go and change anything just so you have a backup in case it doesn't work ;-) Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #

Re: [newbie] Samba help please?

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
I have found the easiest way is to use LinNeighborhood to mount the shares and browse them that way. In LinNeighborhood right click on the workgroup of your windows box and choose "scan group as user." Hope that helps. I used to use komba as well and had to do basically

Re: [newbie] I'm baaaaaaacccckkkkk!

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
Plonk. Plonk. Fizz. Fizz. O! What a relief it is. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] gtk debugging libraries

2003-12-06 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 12:59:06 -0800 Dimitar Haralanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Still no luck finding anything on this. I would be nice if > Mandrake had > these libraries somewhere... > > Any help? glibc-debug -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered li

Re: [newbie] strange process (at least to me) ?

2003-12-05 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 21:28:54 -0500 Dan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok makes sense, my wm is xfce and i do run kde apps. I guess i was > worryed when i saw suicide in there lol. thought maybe the os was > going to check out on me hehehe. Wait until you see one of those kernel cookies like

Re: [newbie] strange process (at least to me) ?

2003-12-05 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:22:31 -0500 Dan Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I noticed this process when i looked in gnome system monitor > kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid --suicide > Anyone know what this means specially the suicide part ? > Mandrake 9.2 I get those when running a kde ap from outside o

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood not showing linux machines

2003-12-03 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 22:55:18 -0400 Adolfo Bello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I *guess* that LN will show only machines that it can connect to. > Again, I might be wrong. > Actually, I'm pretty sure that's correct. If there's no server running it would not detect a machine, nor list it. LN j

Re: [newbie] Library Path Environment Variable

2003-12-03 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 3 Dec 2003 22:01:51 -0600 The Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 12/03/03 > > The Library Path Environment Variable What's it called in > Linux? > > LIBPATH worked in Windows IIRC, what's it called and how do I set it > in Linux? > edit /etc/ld.so.conf then run ldconfig -- _||

Re: [newbie] Update won't Update-Again

2003-12-01 Thread Jerry Barton
ors for you to choose. This has always been my fallback when easy urpmi update sources didn't work. Let us know if that worked. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or S

Re: [newbie] 9.2-xawtv nosound.

2003-11-30 Thread Jerry Barton
r it has anything to do with arts. If so how to solve it. My first thought is to open aumix and check the "Line" and/or "Line1" volume levels. If this doesn't work, could you give us some information on the type of tv card, sound card, desktop you're using, etc? J

Re: [newbie] MDK 9.2 - Lost my open windows applets on Gnome panel on my Desktop :-)

2003-11-30 Thread Jerry Barton
n the panel and choose Add to panel > utility > window list. That'll get your window list back Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Trouble?? with 9.2

2003-11-29 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:14:29 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What are you playing around for? I finished that job almost a > > > year ago! Which reminds me - what could I do with an > > > external Ditto tape drive that takes tapes that only Iomega made, > > > and only for a s

Re: [newbie] Unninstalling packages

2003-11-28 Thread Jerry Barton
duce hunting if I'm going about it the regular ./configure make make install route I prefer leaving the prefix as /usr/local and adding /usr/local/bin to my$PATH in ~/.bashrc (and /usr/local/lib/ to ld.so.conf) so finding any bits and pieces will be easier. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux

Re: [newbie] Bad signatures in 9.2

2003-11-28 Thread Jerry Barton
trib. I'll report back after trying a few things. Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ssh + X forwarding to Windows

2003-11-27 Thread Jerry Barton
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:57:46 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox) wrote: > vnc server is where? I have vnc installed on the Windows side, and I'd > have to do the setup remotely. urpmi tightvnc-server HTH -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855

Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]

2003-11-26 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:01:09 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry, Jerry. There's just too much in there now to keep track, so I > have to settle for reminding people often that knowledge acquired is > good, but knowledge shared is better :-)

Re: [newbie] Installing Java 1.4.2.x

2003-11-26 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 11:23:43 -0600 Doug Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a related topic, how does one edit the Path statement directly? I > have been through some of the man pages and the Running Linux book and > have not spotted any way to directly edit the Path statement, like > edit

Re: [newbie] Fonts [SOLVED]

2003-11-26 Thread Jerry Barton
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 16:24:54 + Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 26 Nov 2003 3:29 pm, Marco Verheul wrote: > > > > Joe, see http://lli.linux-bangalore.org/ttfonts.php. This page > > explains howto install fonts with Mandrake Control Center. It > > appearantly takes good car

Re: [newbie] KDE Menu issue revisited

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry Barton
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 01:21:59 -0800 Melissa Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now on to other things... like why I can't use the "Delete Article" > option in Knode (option is there, just disabled). Like et said.. yeah that's for articles you post. (to cancel your post) set up your filters to ca

Re: [newbie] usb iomega cdrw

2003-11-25 Thread Jerry Barton
n't like. I ended up having to comment out a section in rc.sysinit and halt otherwise it just plain refused to boot/shutdown cleanly. Just out of curiosity, what motherboard do you have? Mine's an ASUS A7V (amd 750 processor) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered

Re: [newbie] How to stop Auto connect internet on boot?

2003-11-24 Thread Jerry Barton
On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:50:11 -0500 Bob Read <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can anyone tell me how to discontinue the automatic connection > to the internet on boot? This is a machine that was originally > Mdk 8.1 then updated to Mdk 8.2. If it fails to connect for > any reason, it just keeps tryin

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Jerry Barton
during installation. > > Oops! That's my video card! :-) My sound card is Sound Blaster Live > 5.1. > > So...any ideas about why I have no sound? Open up kmix (or aumix) and check your sound levels. Mine defaulted to have the main and pcm volumes turned all the wa

Re: [newbie] No sound, no pictures

2003-11-23 Thread Jerry Barton
gv kwickshow (the package is called kdegraphics-kuickshow) Hope that helps :) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] video file conversions

2003-11-13 Thread Jerry Barton
& raw wave and convert it > into divx & mp3 for audio. Any other options other than avidemux? urpmi gmencoder HTH Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at V_/_ http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Servi

Re: [newbie] Macromeida flash plug-in installation on mozilla - I did something wrong !!

2003-11-13 Thread Jerry Barton
But when I enter a site > including flash , still it can not be seen.!! How can I activate it ? > Or is my installation faulty.??? > > > Hertas it should be installed at /usr/lib/mozilla-1.x/ (where x is your mozilla version.. be it 1.3, 1.4, 1.5...) HTH Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linu

Re: [newbie] Reality or Urban Legend

2003-11-12 Thread Jerry Barton
the journal for some odd reason. (it still replays the journal when booting into failsafe but it doesn't get stuck). Anyone else had this happen? Any ideas on a fix/workaround? TIA Jerry. -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855 //\at

Re: [newbie] Audio recording levels

2003-11-01 Thread Jerry Barton
er than the > dynamic range on your original recording - and you should hear no > degradation of signal compared with the original. In aumix increase the IGain. (or have you tried that already?) Jerry -- _||_ Registered linux user #300600 (o_ Registered linux machine # 185855

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