Re: [newbie] OT:Linux on top

2002-04-30 Thread Mark D'voo
all the nvidia geforce's say the support linux on the box too On Tuesday 30 April 2002 08:37 am, poogle wrote: Just bought a LG DVD ROM and was very pleased to see that at the top of the compatible operating systems list in big letters was LINUX, OK so they were in alphabetical order but it

[newbie] DrakConf and cursor

2002-04-16 Thread Mark D'voo
i've had a problem with this on three machines, after using DrakConf, the cursor stays a watch, then only what to get it back to normal is to log out. any ideas ? mark -- 10:13am up 8 days, 8:27, 7 users, load average: 0.40, 0.41, 0.23 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] tv-out

2002-04-16 Thread Mark D'voo
is the tv-out s-video ? you should be able to shut down your computer, put in the s-video, take out the monitor cable and reboot, there are ways to edit your XF86Config-4 file so that you can start another X server on your tv On Sunday 14 April 2002 04:14 am, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi,

Re: [newbie] tv-out

2002-04-16 Thread Mark D'voo
here's a copy of mine, check out www.nvidia.com and look at the readme for the linux drivers, it has lots of cool info on ways to do this On Tuesday 16 April 2002 03:26 pm, Jesper Nyholm Jensen wrote: Hi, Yeah, it's s-video. What ways are there to edit my XF86Config-4 file are there?/Where

Re: [newbie] kmail-evolution migration?

2002-02-24 Thread Mark D'voo
On Sunday 24 February 2002 11:07 pm, you wrote: Hello: On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 12:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: before I commit myself to another major download, a simple question does Evolution import existing kmail messages? I have imported kmail just fine. just import the files in your

Re: [newbie] Running slow.

2002-02-16 Thread Mark D'voo
I had trouble with 8.1, mandrake 7.1 through 8.0 were blazing fast for me, then came 8.1 download edition, slow and unstable, Some people have had great luck with 8.1, other's like ours have sucked and cause me to use a different distro for now. I hope 8.2 will be better mark On Saturday 16

Re: [newbie] Man--Konqueror STINKS

2002-02-07 Thread Mark D'voo
On Thursday 07 February 2002 05:39 pm, you wrote: i can't get midis to work at all in linux, i get the error, can't open /dev/sequencer, no such file or device yet it is there, i have a c-media builtin sound card, any ideas? mark if your worst problem is midi, is it really that bad? do you

[newbie] ntp.conf

2002-02-07 Thread Mark D'voo
I lost my ntp.conf, can anyone send me one with server set up ? thanks, mark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] no sound

2002-01-13 Thread Mark D'voo
On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:18 pm, you wrote: Hello, I have installed 8.1 easily except for the fact that i can't get any sound. I went to control center/hardware and then the system blacks out... the system doesn't actually black out, it throws you into a virtual console for some reason,

Re: [newbie] Before I jump.

2002-01-13 Thread Mark D'voo
On Sunday 13 January 2002 11:54 pm, you wrote: are there any main stream games for linux? ie CS, Quake3 railroad tycoon etc ? quake3, ut, railroad tycoon are all native (check out www.lokigames.com for all the games they have ported to linux. Half-life and counter strike have not been

Re: [newbie] Before I jump.

2002-01-13 Thread Mark D'voo
pleased with their service. Best Buy now even sells the Linux Mandrake Gaming Edition which includes the SIMS :) mark Derek - Original Message - From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2002 6:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Before I jump

Re: [newbie] quake 3

2002-01-13 Thread Mark D'voo
On Monday 14 January 2002 10:15 am, you wrote: I'm trying to play the quake 3 demo and I get the following error: Sys_Error: Couldn't load default.cfg. I don't seem to have a default.cfg file anywhere. where can I get a default.cfg file or what needs to be in it, and where does it go? Any

Re: [newbie] cron

2002-01-09 Thread Mark D'voo
On Thursday 10 January 2002 08:17 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 09 January 2002 06:24 am, Mark D'voo wrote: I have a bash script that I want run every hour as my regular user, how do I setup cron to do this? mark easiest put the script in the /etc/cron.hourly directory. hmm, i put

Re: [newbie] Mozilla and Flash

2002-01-08 Thread Mark D'voo
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 07:09 am, you wrote: Has anyone experienced problems with mozilla stalling when you visit a site using flash. I've noticed via a number of other posts regarding problems with realplayer hanging that the solution was to issue the command 'artsdsp realplay'. I've

Re: [newbie] Can I connect to netzero from my linux box???

2002-01-07 Thread Mark D'voo
windows me, 2k, and xp should have internet sharing built in, if you go to network neighborhood, you should be able to go to the create new network wizard which should give you the option to share your internet, if you have win98 or 95, you'll need a program such as wingate, or the free

Re: [newbie] Music CDs No Longer Mount in Mandrake 8.1

2002-01-06 Thread Mark D'voo
music cd's aren't suppost to be mounted, open up a cd player or xmms and point it to /mnt/cdrom or /dev/cdrom On Sunday 06 January 2002 22:10, you wrote: I haven't been able to play a single cd since switching to mandrake a couple of weeks ago. I get this error when mounting music cd's (all

Re: [newbie] clipboard

2001-12-14 Thread Mark D'voo
klipper is only in kde's menu bar, not gnome's, you should still be able to run klipper under gnome though On Saturday 15 December 2001 02:59, you wrote: On Friday 14 December 2001 11:57, you wrote: Is there a clipboard feature in the download edition of 8.1? I've looked everywhere but I

[newbie] automatically mounting windows shares on boot

2001-12-13 Thread Mark D'voo
How do I mount a networked windows share on boot? I know using LinNeighborhood is easy enough, but I'm sure I can add some line to some file to have them automatically mounted mark -- 2:46pm up 3:30, 3 users, load average: 1.07, 1.11, 1.00 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] NVidia

2001-12-12 Thread Mark D'voo
you could also run /sbin/lsmod and you should see NVdriver under the list, if so it's loaded On Wednesday 12 December 2001 18:39, you wrote: Paul: Thanks for the tip! This was done with the stock kernel. My wife would kill me if I messed with her Linux! She never has any problems and it

Re: [newbie] NVidia

2001-12-12 Thread Mark D'voo
does X even start for you ? On Wednesday 12 December 2001 20:48, you wrote: Did the lsmod and it did show up at the top of the list, but it says that it's unused. Interesting. Does unused mean though the driver is there and loaded it's not actually being used because something has yet to

Re: [newbie] Re: the endless arguement

2001-12-06 Thread Mark D'voo
well there is that joke. Computers are like an air conditioner, they only work if you have Windows closed mark On Thursday 06 December 2001 22:13, you wrote: all i know is that i agree with the advice from a 21 year tech vet who is the current head of IT were my wife works: linux can be

Re: [newbie] Kmail

2001-12-05 Thread Mark D'voo
/home/username/.kde/share/config/kmailrc has all the kmail settings in it, edit it or delete it, your choice mark On Thursday 06 December 2001 07:55, you wrote: On Wednesday 05 December 2001 19:28, you wrote: Hi, I'm having a little problem with the account section. I wanna remove

Re: [newbie] DVD's, TV-out vid cards and Mandrake 8.1

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
i have a geforce 3, the tvout works great on it and Xv is now supported, so you should get a decent frame rate. If you unplug your monitor and just have s-video plugged in, it will automatically boot up to your tv. I have it setup so that when I press ctrl-alt-F8, it displays on the tv

Re: [newbie] Galeon and Java

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
to get java working, run mozilla as root (is this safe ?), go to java.sun.com, it will tell you that you need the java plug-in, say ok, when it takes you to the new web page, click java for linux, it should download and install, restart mozilla, and java should work, java should now also work

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
from any command line you can just run: startx -- :1 or if you want three graphic desktops startx -- :2 if you want to run gnome startx /usr/bin/gnome-session -- :1 mark On Tuesday 04 December 2001 21:22, you wrote: On Tue, 4 Dec 2001 01:38:43 + Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] mulitple desktop managers

2001-12-03 Thread Mark D'voo
true, it doesn't bother me though, If you are using kde you can press alt-f2 (run command), and type it in there, then you won't see any of the debug info On Tuesday 04 December 2001 21:57, you wrote: On Mon, 3 Dec 2001 20:40:15 +0600 Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: from any command

Re: [newbie] Help, XP uptime is greater than my linux

2001-11-29 Thread Mark D'voo
gtk themes seem to cause lockups for me. I noticed that if i use a very simple gtk theme, i have no problem. But if i use one with pixmaps and lots of cool stuff, it runs slow and freezes a lot mark On Thursday 29 November 2001 17:57, you wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:16:09 -0500 Jon Doe

Re: [newbie] a very dumb gcc question

2001-11-29 Thread Mark D'voo
have you tried rpm --oldpackage gcc-2.95*.rpm this should let you downgrade. an rpm --force will also do this, but I'd recommend rpm --oldpackage to check for deps first. If all else fails, rebuild from source mark On Friday 30 November 2001 01:40, you wrote: Ok, its stupid question time.

Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup

2001-11-28 Thread Mark D'voo
i had some trouble getting dhcp to work with att@home also, if you have a windows machine, get it running and find out your ip address. you should be able to just use that static address as mine never changed once in the year i had it. If your address does constantly change, you can purchase

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-28 Thread Mark D'voo
for testing my websites. Thanks - Original Message - From: Mark D'voo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have wine on my

Re: [newbie] how do I save any html page

2001-11-28 Thread Mark D'voo
upgrade to 2.2.2 On Thursday 29 November 2001 09:15, you wrote: On Sun, 25 Nov 2001 04:20, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:13:18 +1100, pesarif [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 06:45, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 18 Nov 2001 10:33:48 -0500, Paúl

Re: [newbie] a good help to mandrake 8.0

2001-11-28 Thread Mark D'voo
www.linuxdocs.org has a bunch of good faqs for the newbie mark On Thursday 29 November 2001 10:02, you wrote: Fellows! I piss on MS and i wont buy any netter, faster, more stable, cheaper system. OVER ! I WANT LINUX !!! But I'm green socan you tell me (Give) an address where i could

Re: [newbie] Internet Explorer

2001-11-27 Thread Mark D'voo
i agree, galeon is better than any browser to date, the only reason i have wine on my computer right now is for return to castle wolfenstein, but when the linux binaries come out in a week, bye bye wine On Tuesday 27 November 2001 23:40, you wrote: I see no reason to run IE on Linux.

Re: [newbie] ls command

2001-11-20 Thread Mark D'voo
ls -R -- that will be recursive meaning it will follow through each directory mark On Wednesday 21 November 2001 06:49, you wrote: Hi ! Does there any command in linux to view ALL the directory and files in one shot ?? example : -- folder1 file1

Re: [newbie] hostname

2001-11-19 Thread Mark D'voo
/etc/hosts (must be root) On Tuesday 20 November 2001 07:44 am, you wrote: Which file in /etc do I have to edit to change my hostname on Mandrake 8.1? Thanks. -- 1:48am up 3:13, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.49, 0.88 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Thread Mark D'voo
gnucash is an excellent finiancial management program. It reminds me of quicken. As for games, most the top games are also for linux, and those that aren't for linux ie half-life, run flawlessly under wine. I have even had success with Zoo Tycoon, a Microsoft game to run almost perfectly

Re: [newbie] Linux versus WindowsXP Haredware

2001-11-02 Thread Mark D'voo
my girlfriends dad can't get anything usb to work. His HP printer nor his sony camera work with usb, but the printer worked find using the parallel port. Unfortunately his digital camera is only usb so a $500 camera is sitting useless on lhis desk. Both this worked fine on ME. I would have

Re: [newbie] libpng3 incompatibility

2001-10-25 Thread Mark D'voo
all my programs work (including abiword), but i get this: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.2.0 libpng warning: Application is running with png.c from libpng-1.0.12 with galeon and some others mark On Thursday 25 October 2001 06:44 am, you wrote: On Thu, 25

Re: [newbie] cdrecord and my ricoh burner

2001-10-24 Thread Mark D'voo
most programs will use cdrecord, there is one other burning program, cdrdao which you can get off the mandrake contrib On Wednesday 24 October 2001 03:53 pm, you wrote: At 15:51 23.10.2001 -0700, you wrote: On Tuesday 23 October 2001 02:42 pm, you wrote: hi ppl i have lm 8.1 and

[newbie] kmail and spell check

2001-10-24 Thread Mark D'voo
Is there an option in kmail for spell check? -- 5:34pm up 2 days, 20:05, 2 users, load average: 0.61, 0.58, 0.60 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com