Re: [newbie] Firefox not playing nice with slashdot

Aron Smith wrote: Firefox will not open a link on slashdot has anyone else had this problem other sites seem to be ok Using Firefox 1.0.2 at the moment and links seem to open ok. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://

Re: [newbie] nvidia graphics

john wrote: Hello I have just updated kernel to 2.6.8.1-24. I downloaded the nvidia driver from nvidia.com and installed per instructions. After downloading I tested with startx and everything worked fine. Upon reboot however, the driver would not load. Error message was: "Failed to initialize t

Re: [newbie] Thunderbird problems

Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 14:36, Kevin Ferguson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Nothing but problems with Tbird in linux for me. Think I will go back to Kmail but in the meantime Tbird is frozen and I can't shut it down. I'm sure there will be a way in the command l

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Off-topic

Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 11 Feb 2005 12:53, Paul wrote: On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 04:50, Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 05:36 pm, Michael Davis wrote: Can somebody give me a link or something to sign up to the Off-topic list? :-/ [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Dual layer DVD recommendations?

Mike Adolf wrote: Any recommendations (or horror stories) for a dual layer DVD drives? I am looking at the Sony DAU 710A ($90 - $100) and the LiteOn SOHW-1213S. ($80). Mike The Sony DRU-710A works fine on MDK 10.1 and burns double layer no problem with k3b. Takes about 45 minutes to burn 8.5 Gi

Re: [newbie] AmaroK beta3

Greg Meyer wrote: For those interested, AmaroK released a 3rd beta of the 1.2 release. You'll need the libtunepimp and libmusicbrainz packages also to get the Muscibrainz support. Unfortunately, I only have packages for 10.1 available because I hosed my 10.0 build environment by accident. The

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster Live! 24 bits

Albert Charron wrote: Before I start, my system is running Mandrake 10.1 Official (download edition) as the secondary OS, Windoze XP as the primary (both OS are on different harddrive). Recently, I had to change my sound card and the only one I could find before Christmas was a SoundBlaster Live! 2

Re: [newbie] Virus laden e-mail (mailfilter)

JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:32:49 + Inhabitant of Zion disseminated the following: I have set up so they all go straight to the trash but it sure is a pain in the neck as I am having to remove from the trash about 1800 every hour. So zap them before they even hit your machine: http:

Re: [newbie] KDE CD

Danesh Daroui wrote: Hi, I have downloaded all iso imaged of Mandrake Linux Official 10.1. During installation, it needs KDE CD. I searched on available FTP sites, but there was not any KDE iso image. Can anybody help ? Regards, Danesh Daroui I think the forth Cd (KDE cd) might only be for Mand

Re: [newbie] command line tool for updates

Phil Savoie wrote: Hi All, After receiving a notice of patches from mondrakeonline, is there a commandline tool to remotely get and install these patches? Thank for your time, Phil __

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

Danesh Daroui wrote: Paul Smith wrote: I am migrating from Fedora Core 3 to Mandrake 10.1, but I was jut dissapointed !!! What a garbage is this Mandrake 10.1 !!! It always crashes and it is absolutely unstable. Did you have same problem ? Is version 10 more stable ? Does it happen with Mand

Re: [newbie] Win 2000 install.

Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Saturday 04 December 2004 10:59 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: In short : No Windows box should never - ever - be allowed on any network. Kaj Haulrich. What a wild statement, if a Windows Security Specialist knows whats he or she is doing the box will be quite secure, takes a bi

Re: [newbie] Kppp settings problem?

Lorin & Jenny Pino wrote: Kppp will dial in and establish a connection. However, I can't access any web sites. If I try ping www.yahoo.com , I get ping: unknown host www.yahoo.com . If I try ping 216.109.118.66 as seen on an earlier post, I get conn

Re: [newbie] Updates for 10.1

Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated rpms for Mdk 10.1 now available Charles Do these updates work for Community and Official or are they for Official only ? Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrake

Re: [newbie] Comparing md5sums in 10.0

John Richard Smith wrote: Miark wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 10:18:17 +0100, John wrote: ls -l Divide the size of the ISO image file by 2048 to get the number of sectors, and record that sum (=n, hereafter) If it comes out to a decimal, do I round up? It doesn't. The sectors in question are t

[newbie] Mandrake 10 2nd disk install

Hi I have a machine here with an Aopen cdwriter which refuses to take the second disk during installation. It just ejects and asks for the second disk again. The disk should be good as i have installed from it before. Anyone seen this before ? Marek __

Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.

Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 07:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:56, Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une conférence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thème de l'économie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intéressés pour passer et dis

Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.

Hoyt Bailey wrote: On Sunday 17 October 2004 07:04, Stephen Kühn wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:56, Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une conférence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thème de l'économie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intéressés pour passer et dis

Re: [newbie] smp kernel

Dan Gordon wrote: On October 17, 2004 01:06 am, Marek Pawinski wrote: I am having a lot of segfaulting, my kernel, update kernel uninstalls itself and after a day or two my rpms i download seem to go bad with a smp kernel on ML OE, did you have these problems ? Can i run a normal kernel on a Hyper

Re: [newbie] Conférence à Bordeaux.

Stephen KÃhn wrote: On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:56, Warly wrote: Je serai sur Bordeaux Mardi 19 octobre pour une confÃrence à l'ENSEIRB de 11h à 12h30 sur le thÃme de l'Ãconomie du libre et Mandrakesoft. Si des gens sont intÃressÃs pour passer et discuter un peu. Um, can you repeat that in Polish? --

Re: [newbie] smp kernel

Dan Gordon wrote: Hello list, A long time ago right about the time Mandrake 10 comunity came out someone asked me to let them know how the smp kernel was running for me. Well all I can say is it was not good for me. 75% of the time applications were segfaulting on me so I went with a regular k

Re: [newbie] Reporting a bug.

Andy Allen wrote: Can someone please tell me how, in very simple steps, how to report a bug/issue. You can report a bug here http://bugs.mandrakelinux.com/ Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestor

[newbie] Konsole buffer size

Hi Is it possible to make the Konsole buffer size infinte or at least something larger. My text runs out quickly when i scroll back to the top. -- Marek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com J

Re: [newbie] Linux fails to read CD rom

Sujit Apte wrote: Hi every body, I am new linux user with some solaris background. Recently I installed mandrake linux 10 on my home pc. The problem I am facing is as follows :- Linux system did identify and read contents of installation CDs. However if I insert other CD containing some PDF and doc

Re: [newbie] K3b eslrahc

Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 19:08:56 +0200 Marek Pawinski wrote: Anyone have this ? No problem here. Can you launch it from a terminal and paste the error out-put when it crashes. Charles Here it is k3b: WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name

[newbie] OT Hardware reboot

Hi I had a problem where one of my machines would reboot every 8 days or so. Now it reboots every few hours. The CPU fan seems to be working every time i look. I tried knoppix on it as well so its not the OS looks like it. Not being much of a hardware man i wonder if anyone knows what could c

Re: [newbie] Audigy LS

Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2004 16:14, Marek Pawinski wrote: Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Yes

[newbie] Audigy LS

Hi I installed an Audigy LS and MDK 10 CE does not pick it up in the module (shows unknown) in harddrake. I also try to run the config tool but nothing happens. There are no drivers on the creative site for this. Anyone have any luck installing the audigy LS ? What other tools other than alsacon

[newbie] Copy & paste

Hi Anyone having problems with copying and pasting using the middle button with KDE and Mozilla 1.6/1.7 ? Works fine with the other apps but with Mozilla i have to select the text, right click and then select copy, klipper does not catch it when i just highlight the text with the mouse. Weird t

[newbie] Mandrake 10 CE & O

Hi If i am am using Mandrake 10 Community but have updated all 400 megs or so of the updates am i actually now sitting with the Official version ? This comes off the linuxiso.org : NOTE: The 10.0 Community Edition release is not a final release of 10.0. The official release will be available for

Re: [newbie] Networking 2 Linux PCs

Steve wrote: Okay, I am not a network person but, I have two home computers running Madrake 10.0 connected to a D-Link wireless router and I want them to be able to share files on each other. How hard is it going to be to accomplish this and where do I start? Thanks, Steve Install webmin on

Re: [newbie] Sound

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks a lot. Alsa is running. The driver the system picked up is: snd-emu10k1. It also says: "alternative drivers: audigy:emu10k1". How can I check what's the right driver for me? Thanks for the feedback. Teilhard. They should actually both work try the alternate one. --

Re: [newbie] Sound

Dan Gordon wrote: On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have three desktops and one laptop where I have installed different versions of Mandrake. Just yesterday installed, in the largest computer, version 10.0 Official. In my previous experience, I always got sound ju

[newbie] Network adaptor card

Hi I have a D-Link DGE-550T network card installed. When i boot up i get an error message that eth0 is not present delaying inialization. It uses the dl2k driver. The D-LINK drivers on the web site are for the 2.4 kernel :-( Once up i have to manually run the hardware config tool each time to g