Re: [RE: [[newbie] modem and sound card problems]]

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 10 Mar 2036, you wrote: "Troy Weir" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual card is the SB AudioPCI 64D. The only sound I have tried is when I did do sndconfig and it tried to test the sound and then I tried some of the system sounds. = Did the card

Re: [newbie] OT Starting LUG for mandrake

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: Well, we've already got on in the Chattanooga, TN area... two in fact www.calug.org and www.chugalug.org. The second is sort of an excuse for a bunch of geeks to get together to drink beer, though... ;-) John And I'll bet you never miss a

Re: [newbie] HP Deskjet 722C

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I am having trouble setting up my Hewlett Packard DeskJet 722C printer on Mandrake 7.0. I go into DrakConf, Printer Configuration, Local, and then it sees it on lp0, but from there I do not know what to do. I have tried all of the different deskjet printers

Re: [newbie] memory

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 01 Feb 2000, you wrote: I know now that using the mem=128M line in lilo.conf fixes the memory problem in mandrake 7.0 on my abit motherboard(s). BUT - does anyone know WHY this is happening with 7.0 and never happened to me in multiple installs of 6.1? It didn't happen to YOU in

Re: [newbie] help! kde is confusing!!

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: i cant figure out how to make the "desktop" the same size as the monitor display! its much larger and i need it to fit!! also, i cant figure out how to start gnome, and none of the help files are avasilable. Christopher L Delpmobile e mail: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7 tcsh and dir colour

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: hi everyone, How does one enable ls to display file names in colour depending on the file extension? alias ls='ls --color' from a command prompt, or add it to your ~/.bashrc John

Re: [newbie] eth0 problem

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: I had the same problem. I had to disable the plug and play and then I had to re-enable it. One I did that, it still wouldn't see the network. So I set it up static and each time I boot into linux I have to become SU and type at the prompt "ifup eth0" This

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Another question. I am currently in a computer science class that uses g++ to compile programs. Now I want to compile some of these programs localy on my computer so I don't have to remotely log into their linux box to do my work. I tried a test program

Re: [newbie] the g++ compiler

2000-02-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 02 Feb 2000, you wrote: Hi ! and when I do g++ test.cc -o test I get this error test.cc:1: iostream.h: No such file or directory What file libraries/rpms am I missing? Obviously, the compiler can't find the iostream.h header file. Thanks in advance. [Big Smile] I

Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I had something like this happen, under NT 4. The only difference is it worked fine (showed my root NT drive as D:) for a while, then quit. I have NO idea how to change the drive designation. You can try using something like Partition Magic to move the

Re: [newbie] DOOM

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, you wrote: Well, in the quest to install Doom on my Linux-box, I downloaded lxDoom from tuxgames.com, and in the process have learned a bit more about how Linux works... After a little trial and error, I've gotten as far as 'make install', and get the msg "make: ***No

Re: [newbie] Strange Message On Bootup

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, you wrote: I get to work this morning, reboot my Linux box and get the following at the login prompt: Jan 31 08:38:54 babylon kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0090 at 0/12 command 0001a000. I press enter and can log in as usual. However, I must admit

Re: [newbie] Re: Internet method reset???

2000-01-31 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 08 Mar 2036, you wrote: I used to have a working cable modem in MDK6.0, I installed a jumpered ISA Magitronic 33.6 modem...it sees the modem fine. However NOW I can't surf with the cable modem??? I didn't change anything else, anyone know what the problem is??? Both NIC's in my

Re: [newbie] real audio

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, wayne wallace wrote: I have downloaded real audio 5 and the needed libs and run them thru rpm. I didn't see any errors by I can't figure out how to run a ram netscape does not automatically run them. Any ideas?? Did you go in and edit the mime types in Netscape as

Re: [newbie] graphics

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Alan Pitts wrote: Do I have a similar problem with my nvidia TNT Graphics card ? Could this be why I cannot achieve the proper resolution on my screen when I have installed Linux-Mandrake 6.0Does 7.0 support this card ? No it IS supported should work with

Re: [newbie] tar files

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, joe wrote: %_Hello everybody! Sorry for my horrible English.I'm a new Linux user from Spain and I'm trying to learn more about this fantastic OS. I'm having a lot of problems with "tar" files.I'm trying to install Gnome-Chess,which contains a file called

Re: [newbie] screen resolution

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Eric Damron wrote: They tell me that you should be able to press control (or shift-control) and the Plus sign. It has never worked for me. Only when you have multiple resolutions selected. John

Re: [newbie] epson color stylus 900

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Jaswinder S. Ahluwalia wrote: HI, Does anybody know where i can get the drivers for an epson stylus 900? Or how i can get it to work? Right now it prints in ASCII format, but it will not print in post script format when i choose the epson 850.

Re: [newbie] downloading ftp files

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With anonymous ftp, both user and password should be "anonymous" without quotes unless the site was set up with a specific password. Hope I don't waste your time with useless info. Umm...not quite correct. Typically, according to "nettiquette"

Re: [newbie] install zip, memory for mandrake 7.0

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a newbie to Linux environment. I just installed mandrake 7.0. Everything went great and I love it much more than Windows. However, I have two problems that I need help: 1. I have 2 SDRAM chips in my system, 64MB each.

Re: [newbie] Problems connection with Telnet

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Rolando Emmanuelli Jimnez wrote: I have installed Linux Mandrake 6.5. Before that Red Hat 6.0 worked fine. The problem with Mandrake is that I can not connect using telnet from the network or from the linux machine. When I try telnet in the linux machine console it goes

Re: [newbie] Telnet into another Linux box.

2000-01-30 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Rolando Emmanuelli Jimnez wrote: How do I make telnetd active? From the console, type "setup" and choose "system Services." From there, choose TELNETD. John

Re: [newbie] LILO

2000-01-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Help,I currently run dual OS.I've recently had to re-install win9x on my "a"drive and I've lost LILO.How do I re-install LILO?Please be gentle as I'm not familiar with linux.While I'm at it,how do I set up my internet connection in linux?Also,what would be some

Re: [newbie] sorry for disturb

2000-01-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: i am a new user of linux i want i have the mandrake 6.1 and i can't run the x windows on my pc while installing it ask me to choose a CARD but my card its not found its ATI (128 RAGE) 32MB and my screen is view sonic g790 i select in the card category

Re: [newbie] Another installing programs question

2000-01-29 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Lance Carrie Borden wrote: Randall Randall wrote: On a side note, I am unable to get tar to even show me a list of a tar archive, so this might not work properly. It doesn't give errors, just stops. Thanks for the great help. I'm now getting my system all

Re: [SV: [newbie]]

2000-01-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 04 Mar 2036, you wrote: Øystein Efterdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My bios se 128mb and windoz dose se 128. I have configet lilo.conf to append="mem128M" now the linux se 64MB. ^ Make this part "mem=128M" ^^^

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM player woes

2000-01-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: I can't seem to get my CD player to play music. I know that my sound card works because I can hear the sample sounds when I configued by AWE32 sound card with sndconfig, but when I slip in a CD and try to use the CD Player in KDE, I can't get any sound. The

RE: [newbie] stuffed buttons

2000-01-27 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thanks for the help John, it worked like a treat :-) I have disabled the VCF file attachment as well, heaven forbid treading on peoples toes. Yeah... :-) I knowit's nice, but it's also a waste of bandwidth as your vcf file is only useful for a small

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 6.1 video card dilemma

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I am extremely new to the Linux world (Windoze convert) and I've been having problems getting my video card set up properly. I used Xconfigurator and xf86config to attempt to set up my card (which is an SiS 6326, according to Win98) and monitor (Acer

Re: [newbie] Problem installing Air on a machine.

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I am very new to the Linuxworld. What is AIR? "Air" is the "code-name" for the latest release of the Mandrake linux distribution. John

Re: [newbie] usb wheel mouse

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I was wondering if anyone who has a usb wheel mouse has been able to get the wheel to function properly in linux. I have tried imwheel but it does not appear to work correctly with a usb mouse. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks USB is not yet supported

RE: [newbie] unsubscribe

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Try, To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put in the subject : unsubscribe newbie. They switched back to Majordomo. Sympa may or may not work.. John

Re: [newbie] Parallel-port Zip drive

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear John, IT WORKS! Thanks a lot! Heh...yeah...it's fun when they change the commands. :-) John

Re: [newbie] A spot o' help.

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: I just installed Mandrake 7.0, and now I'm having a bit of trouble. I can't seem to get into the GUI (KDE? Is that what it's called? I really AM a newbie). When I boot up, I get taken to the command line interface. Things work as they should from there

Re: [newbie] A spot o' help.

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: well i am a newbie to but i think you can type: startx when you are loged as root This works when logged in as ANYONE, not just root. :-) John

Re: [newbie] my Linux gui's keep crashing

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hey thanks for the speedy response regarding my video problems! Glad to help. Well, here's the info that I think will help you help me: I have a Diamond Stealth 2500 video card with 1MB ram, which has the Alliance AT24 chipset.Monitor is AOC 4v.

Re: [newbie] what progams are ned for kernel compliing

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: i need to know just excatly what programs are needed to compile the kernel i have linux mandrake 6.5 with current kernel that come with package is 2.2.13.4.mdk basically all the kernel-devel packages as well as the c compiler packages. John

Re: [newbie] how to access dos formatted partition?

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: How to access to the dos formatted partition?Can linux see the data in fat32 partition and manipulate them? Yes! Specify filesystem type "vfat." John

Re: [newbie] ATAPI CDRW annoyance

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: ok, basic rundown (if i neglected something important, let me know): i have and EIDE interface, primary has 2 hd's, secondary has an ATAPI cdrom and ATAPI CDRW. I would like to record some CDs, but i just can't get it to work... Okyou should NOT have to

Re: [newbie] Really strange problem with kmail

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: After I read all my mail I occasionally have a strange problem. Kmail will still indicate that I have unread messages. When I scroll back through my messages I find at least one message that has no subject and is from

Re: [newbie] stuffed buttons

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Tue, 25 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello All! I know this is a known issue with Mandrake 6.1 but I havn't been able to find the fix for it. The buttons in a lot of the applications are corrupted. Can anyone remember what the "fix" is for this prob? rpm -e kcmclock, rpm -Uvh kdelibs. Also

Re: [newbie] usb wheel mouse

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Then what is the usb option in ntsysv that can be started at bootup? I thought it was for usb devices. The current kernel does not support (very well, at least) USB. This is probably in place so that future kernels which are on the horizon and which WILL

Re: [newbie] Installation Question When Burning CD-ROM Image Of 7.0

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello Newbies: I burnt all of the files from RPM folder, whatelse do I need to get a complete copy of 7.0? Is it better to copy all from 7.0 folder instead? Thanks In Advance Get the ISO image. *THAT* will get you a complete copy

Re: [newbie] loadlin.exe

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I am using loadlin.exe to boot into linux because my /boot partiton is well beyond the 1024th cylnder. I am concerned because when i do this it says i only have 64 mb of ram when i in fact have 128 mb. The strange thing is that when i boot off of the

Re: [newbie] named daemon

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thats just it, /usr/sbin/named doesnt exist. And where to find documentation for creating named.conf/named.boot? Hmm...sounds like you'll need to install it off the CDROM probably. Both named.boot and named.conf were installed by default here, but then I didn't

Re: [newbie] named daemon

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Thats just it, /usr/sbin/named doesnt exist. And where to find documentation for creating named.conf/named.boot? /usr/doc/bind-8.2/named-bootconf/Grot/named-bootconf.pl

Re: [newbie] Ram drive

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi everyone!! I guess since I'm posting this letter here I don't have to state I'm a relatively new to Linux. My question is can I create a ram drive in Linux, and if yes, am I limited to the size of the drive( other than the normal limitations

Re: [newbie] help( i may have a virus in linux)

2000-01-26 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote: I found a file in the root directory called core. its icon is round yellow with eyes and a tong sticking out. it was in the root dir. then it showed up on a disk I have used in linux. Core is just the remains of a program that crashed. Nothing useful to

Re: [newbie] WinNT boot

2000-01-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello everybody. If NT 4 Workstation is on my computer and I want to install Linux, is there any conflict between LiLo and NT loader? Yes. If so, is there a special way to install LiLo then? Yes, but I'm not sure how to do it.

Re: [newbie] HDPARM settings.

2000-01-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: When I first ran a /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda1 it gave me very poor results. I did some research and modified the settings of hdparm. Now it gives me very acceptable results. However, I haven't rebooted my computer since I made those changes. Is there a

Re: [newbie] Parallel-port Zip drive

2000-01-25 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hello out there! I've got a parallel-port Zip drive that worked fine with my old machine, running Red Hat 5.2. Now I want to use it with my new machine (AMD K-6, 450 MHz, 64 MB SDRAM, 6.5 GB HD) running Mandrake 6.1. I did the standard workstation installation.

Re: [newbie] MDK7 installation problems

2000-01-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've been having trouble getting Mandrake 7.0 to install properly. Every time I try to install it it gets as far as Setup filesystems and then stops with the following error: An error occurred no available partitions. Ok...silly question ... you DID

Re: [newbie] Planning to buy one

2000-01-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: I might have the number wrong. I did see the Macmillan one. I have never seen Mandrake. It was recommended to me by someone, and he told me that 7.0 is due out soon. Speaking only for myself, I do NOT plan on upgrading to 7.0 any time soon there

RE: [newbie] MDK7 installation problems

2000-01-24 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, you wrote: Mandrake's not asking me about Fdisk or Disk Druid, if that's what you're asking. and no, I haven't gotten to the part where it asks where to install to. Ok...I'm out of ideas... :-) Have you tried the "text" install? Had a co-worker here use the RedHat text

Re: [newbie] new hard drive, moving linux

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Daniel Woods wrote: I hate the wasted space of FAT16 (a 60MB CD takes up 1.1 Gigs with 60% waste). Can Linux read FAT32 or NTFS systems yet ? I understand that Winblows 2000 will support read both. Windows programs can be on NTFS, but I want program source, images and

Re: [newbie] New Monitor New Problem

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Singer XJ Wang wrote: Hi: I've got a new problem right now with my spanking Christmas Gift. [well, really late anyway]. Its a KDS VS-195 monitor which the Sync rates are as follows: 30-95kHz 50-120Hz I tried to setup it under X, in 1024x768 mode [its a 19"]. I

Re: [newbie] only boots to system prompt

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, lights wrote: Then it says /dev/hdc2: unexpected inconsistency: run fsck manually (i.e., without -a or -p options) how do fix it is there a site you can go and help self? the way *I* handle this is to boot to a boot/rescue floppy and then run e2fsck /dev/hdc2 (to

Re: [newbie] Instalation problems

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, Cyltic wrote: Hi, when I install the "regular" install option mandrake 7 fails to find both my network cards, but if I install the custom/server method it will find both cards, the problem with the second install menu is it does not boot in to xwindoes as does the first

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.0 ISO

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, John Hanna wrote: %_Hello, my name is John, I'm from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. I've been using Mandrake Linux starting with version 6, then 6.1 and a couple of days ago I checked the web site and found out that 7.0 was released. So I downloaded the ISO (yes on a cable

Re: [newbie] Edit LILO Boot Order-More Help

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Seung-woo Nam wrote: Also, Seung-woo Nam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) told me to run "sbin/lilo" after I edit the "lilo.conf" file. What does running the "sbin/lilo" file do? Many thanks to Seung-woo, and John. I guess it just verifies your 'lilo.conf' file so that next

Re: [newbie] Missing 'egcs' in egcs packages for Mandrake 7.0!!

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Tom Barraza wrote: Has anyone else installed the egcs packages in Mandrake 7.0, and actually gotten the program 'egcs' to be installed? I've looked in all of the egcs-* packages, and have been unable to find 'egcs'! Actually, it isn't called egcs, it's called gcc or g++

Re: [newbie] Installing a New Distro

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Seth Gibson wrote: Is it possible to install a new linux distribution but still retain all my personal files. . .ie crossgrade i guess is what im asking. Thanks all. Yes... IF you have a separate partition for /home. Otherwise, you'll need to back everything up in your

Re: [newbie] Remote Telnet; Remote FTP server (they don't work)

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Emerald Arcana wrote: Hi guys! My Remote Telnet and Remote FTP doesn't seem to work anymore. I don't think the daemons load up. In the past, I had remote FTP server and remote Telnet server working, but now, I can't telnet into my machine anymore, which

Re: [newbie] Can't login

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 29 Feb 2036, Wayne Wallace wrote: I can't login to an account I have been using. I was surfing along and started to experience strange problems I figured i would logout and come back in. I can't get back in as that user it goes right back the the login screen. I can use root. Any

Re: [newbie] RAM detection problem ?

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Tomer Weller wrote: My Mandrake7 detects 65mb of RAM,. while I have 128. what can be the issue ? Edit your /etc/lilo.conf and put in "append=mem=128M" I think. Double-check the archives for this. Strangely enough, Mandrake 6.0 sees all 192 megs of memory in my system. :-)

Re: [newbie] Video Modes

2000-01-23 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Keith Taylor wrote: %_I just loaded up my first copy of Linux and am running in 640x480 with what appears to be 256 colors. Now I have looked throughout everything in KDE thats readily availiable to see if there is a place to change video modes (I like 800x600 16 bit). I

Re: [newbie] my Linux gui's keep crashing

2000-01-22 Thread John Aldrich
Bill: We need more information about your system before we can help. Please give us DETAILS about the motherboard mfr, vide card, what other devices you have, etc. Maybe we can help then... John - Original Message - From: "Bill B." [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [newbie] connecting to the Internet

2000-01-21 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 21 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear sir Madam i have just set up a purchased full copy of linux mandrake as a dual boot with windows 98 on my home computer. I would like to set it up so i can use the internet through my BT ignition ISDN terminal adapter. I can not work out any way of

[newbie] X on a Presario 1277 laptop

2000-01-20 Thread John Aldrich
Has anyone gotten X to work on a Presario Laptop model #1277? One of my co-workers is trying to get Linux installed on his laptop and it seems the lcd display won't work for him under X. :-( Thanks... John

Re: [newbie] Problem in X font

2000-01-08 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, Sudhakar Nagarajan wrote: I recently installed Linux-mandrake in to my system. It is AMD p2 processor. The installation went fine, but at the time of X installation the confirmation window, "if you can see the window displayed all right" I can not read the words. It is

Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi, I'm having the same problems. Yes, I can read Word documents just fine with Star Office. The problem is in downloading word documents which are attached to e-mails. When I try to double-click the attachment to download, I get an error message saying

Re: [newbie] Primary and Secondary DNS on the Same Machine?

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Is it possible to run Primary and Secondary DNS on one machine and if so, how might i do this. As it stands i have DNS running on Mandrake 6.0 as a primary server, but the some of the other networking companys that i'm working with want it to be there

Re: [newbie] Voodoo 3 3000 Drivers????

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Anybody know where i can find drivers for a Voodoo3 3000 AGP for SuSE linux 6.2? Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:

Re: [newbie] KDE problem after upgrading from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0 on a AMD K6-2/350 (well, a couple actually), but on one machine I tried to upgrade KDE 1.1.1 to 1.1.2. I went to KDE's web site, then to their download site and ftp'd all the files in the directory, about a dozen or so. These were in rpm

Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: Also, other more knowlegable users have helped us out by telling us these little gems when we asked "how do I do this???" Yep! That and experience. :-) John

Re: [newbie] Where is Kudzu

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: When i tried to install the rpm it failed. It says that it needs libnewt.so.0.50. Do you have any idea where this is located. I looked on the Mandrake CD. try www.rpmfind.net John

Re: [newbie] How to Dial up

2000-01-07 Thread John Aldrich
On Thu, 06 Jan 2000, you wrote: I don't why but it still does not work. I tryed that it came up with "bash: /etc/resolv.conf: Permission denied" not to sure why I am the main user. You have to be "root" to edit /etc/resolv.conf. Although why you'd want to have a blank /etc/resolv.conf

Re: [newbie] any ideas how to read attached .doc files?please

2000-01-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Dear all Is there anyway that I can read attached word.doc files that are sent by the mad minority using a popular sic! alternative. I,m using mandrake 6.0,kde and staroffice. *.doc files are viewable in Star Office just fine at least I've had no

Re: [newbie] A problem with Telnet

2000-01-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi Everyone: I´d make a Typical installation of Linux Mandrake 6.0 on my Pc but when I try to make a Telnet from another machine, or from the same I receive the next message. "Connection closed by foreign host" If I make the Complete installation it

Re: [newbie] CONFUSED

2000-01-05 Thread John Aldrich
On Wed, 05 Jan 2000, you wrote: OK, I unsubscribed the right way and didn't recieve any email for about a week, and today I got email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did someone subscribe me again or what could have happen? Hmm...dunno. Maybe someone did, or maybe the list got corrupted and they had

Re: [newbie] user

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: Hi All, I have a question, I know that you really shouldn't do your normal day to day work under root. But when I setup linux, adn they ask me to set up a user I did. Now I can't use ppp under the user. I went and added ppp to my user, but everytime I try

Re: [newbie] startup error

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 6.0, it is installed on /dev/hdb1. Every once in a while I get the following error when starting up. "/dev/hdb1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced." It then goes on and loads fine. It also operates fine. Should I be concerned about

Re: [newbie] HELP!

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: I need help! i have a SIS 6326 AGP card , and i have mandrake 5.3 what i have to download to have my linux running properly? when i run my GUI i see a lot of black squarez, my kde menu is black. Please help me. This is a known problem with SiS video cards.

Re: [newbie] in.telnetd

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: Regarding whether or not telnet server is instaled by default; 'Splain it to me, please. I wiped out my partitions and installed 6.1 9Server) from scratch. I did not have to go back and install telnet server. After setting hosts.allow and a few other

Re: [newbie] Netscape very unstable...

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: I went to Netscapes site and d/led the latest browser. All you have to do is unzip and tar it.. check out the readme. All I had to do was run ns-install. That worked great... Yes, but then you should remove the RPM version that comes with Mandrake. :-)

Re: [newbie] netscape java problem

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: I've got a problem with Netscape. I have the latest version, but I have noticed that if I go to http://www.deltaairlines.com The page begans to load up and then on the Status Bar, it says Starting Java, then Netscape bails and outputs "Bus error" to the screen.

Re: [newbie] user

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, you wrote: Strange, mine works flawlessly. Last time I rebooted my machine was a month ago and I haven't logged in as root yet. I didn't know there was a "bug" and didn't do anything special when I installed. Go figure. Well, I'm using a LAN ISDN router so I don't

Re: [newbie] user

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, I checked the archives but found nothing, I went to the newbie, and expert archives. Any other thoughts? The info I recall (in the past couple weeks) involves recompiling the kernel and commenting out a line or two in the config. Sorry, that's

Re: [newbie] user

2000-01-03 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon, 03 Jan 2000, Bob Schmidt wrote: Hi, I checked the archives but found nothing, I went to the newbie, and expert archives. Any other thoughts? PSask Axalon. He's probably got that info at his fingertips. John

Re: [newbie] FTP and Telnet

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Etien wrote: But right now that's the least of my problems, Couple of nights ago I started trying to setup FTP and Telnet, so that I could work on my server at work (telnet) on my down time. I'm on rogers@home (cable modem service) and I keep running into the same

Re: [newbie] Made a mistake in setup

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/1/00 1:20:43 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Could you please explain a few things really quick? I'm assuming that your machine is coming up in runlevel 5 graphical mode Runlevel 5...is there

Re: [newbie] Programming on Linux

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to compile a c++ program? I have a compiler, and edited and saved a source file using some really lame text editor. Whats next? The --? argument's answers weren't very helpful. you need to install the kernel-devel

Fwd: Re: [newbie] scsi devices

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, you wrote: John, it was that simple to find the card and now the system recognizes both the card and the CDVR, in the settings , scsi (on the kde desktop) it now shows "attached devices:" Host: scsi0 Channel:00 Id: 05 Lun : 00 Vendor : PhillipsModel : CDD2600

Re: [Re: [newbie] Icons to large]

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 08 Feb 2036, Michael Scottaline wrote: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip I would recommend that you reboot the system, and type "linux 3" at the prompt. Then, log in as "root" when you get the prompt. Then, type "xf86setup" (minus quotes

Re: [newbie] memory problems

2000-01-02 Thread John Aldrich
On Sun, 02 Jan 2000, Hirnay wrote: i have got 128mb of ram on my pc. but under the kde control centre, only 64mb is 'seen'. the swap memory is ok at 128mb. i have got mandrake 6.1 installed. how can i fix this? In /etc/lilo.conf type: append="mem=128mb" OR, if you already HAVE an append

Re: [newbie] graphics card shopping....

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Seth Gibson wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, you wrote: Dunno. I don't believe that Xfree86 makes an accelerated server. OTOH, you might go see what cards mesa-gl supports. www.mesa-3d.org Actually its www.mesa3d.org. . Really

Re: [newbie] New Millenium

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Etien T. VanDenBroecke wrote: Yes that is true, but it has been said that somewhere along the lines we all lost a year, so is it the year 2000 or the year 2001?? who knows, all that I know is that the media hype about the Y2K bug, looks like it turn out to be a big money

Re: [newbie] LS120 MB floppy

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Patrick Dyer wrote: I need some help here. Linux will not mount my floppy. This is a new one . I had 120MB floppy drive before and it got damaged, it was working fine before I stupidly damaged the head. I got a new and installed it. When linux is booting it seem to

Re: [newbie] Icons to Large

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Jennifer Ricki Wise wrote: I had to reinstall Mandrake, when xconfig came up I was stuck using the default as all the other sizes would not be accepted. Now the icons are way to large and when I open some of the icons like Netscape I can't see the accept button. Is there

Re: [newbie] flashing bios

2000-01-01 Thread John Aldrich
On Sat, 01 Jan 2000, Hidong Kim wrote: Hi, I just downloaded the bios upgrade for my asus vx-97 from the asus site. The machine I have is pure Linux, no Windows. How do I flash the bios? Thanks, Can you get your hands on a DOS boot disk? ;-) IF so, just use the DOS boot disk and then

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