Re: [newbie] UltraHLE & Wine

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
t time i'd ever used wine - previous attempts two years ago had been pretty fruitless). The more i think about where i got this stuff from the more i think that it MUST have been reliant on a 3Dfx graphics card. I'll get hold of the URLs and post them tommorrow. Martin. - Original

Re: [newbie] SCSI Emulation

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
I meant to get this site completed over the weekend, but ended up partying at a club instead, so give me till the end of the week and step by step instructions will be at www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm It really is easy. Martin. (I stress, there's nothing much useful there yet,

Re: [newbie] Games in this Linux distribution

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
UST have a Glide compatible card (3Dfx recommended), plus a pretty wazzy spec machine - i run a V3 in a PIII 128Mb ram machine. But for your pains you get stuff like Zelda - Ocarina of time running FASTER and SMOOTHER than under Windows !! Martin. - Original Message - From: Alex Brown <[EM

Re: [newbie] SBLive under Mandrake 6.0

1999-07-05 Thread Martin White
until the kernel upgrade. I have taken notes of the thread about upgrading various RPMS a while back - does it sound like that would help me? Martin. - Original Message - From: Patrick Putteman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, July 04, 1999 12:52 PM Subjec

[newbie] NFS the only problem

1999-07-01 Thread Martin Cleaver
indow on the M6 machine, mc is black and white instead of colour... what did I (not) do? Rgds Martin

[newbie] Upgrades

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Cleaver
with linuxconf)...   Rgds   Martin --- Martin Cleaver  MCTranslations/Spot Softwarephone: +31 20 6162224   fax: +31 20 6838188[EMAIL PROTECTED]  [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.a2000.nl/mcleaver

[newbie] linuxconf errors

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Cleaver
er of /var/spool/mqueue to root:root permissions of /usr/sbin/pppd from 100755 to 104755   Very strange...         Martin Cleaver  MCTranslations/Spot Softwarephone: +31 20 6162224   fax: +31 20 6838188[EMAIL PROTECTED]  [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page:

[newbie] Sound!

1999-06-14 Thread Martin Cleaver
und) and I get two error messages when I start KDE: Could not find mime type audio/x-wav in /usr/share/applnk/Multimedia/KMedia.kdelnk Could not find mime type audio/x-wav in /home/martin/.kde/share/applnk/StarOffice.kdelnk I addition, I haven't worked out printing yet (it worked before, but n

[newbie] Digest mode

1999-06-14 Thread Martin White
t use digest mode myself i can offer no more help. Can anyone help this guy out ?? Martin.

Re: [newbie] samba

1999-06-13 Thread Martin Cleaver
ght... Maybe a very good thought... but I get the feling the makers should have thought of that :-( Rgds Martin

Re: [newbie] wine

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
Follow this through to the end of the file (there's a couple more in there somewhere) and you should get things working. This _MAY_ not be how it's meant to be, but it certainly worked for me. Martin. PS: Again, i may be wrong, but i think you _MUST_ specify a program to run. Try '

[newbie] ATAPI CDRs

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
friendly distro hit the shelves - surely someone must default to this soon !!   Responses to me instead of the list welcome if you prefer.   Martin.

Re: [newbie] Cannot mount ATAPI CDR when using SCSI emulation - jrt

1999-06-11 Thread Martin White
stuff to module status. You don't have to do anything else different apart from the make command above. Martin.

Re: [newbie] New kernel?

1999-06-09 Thread Martin White
. Ta, Martin. - Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] New kernel? > On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I see that new kernel rpm&#x

Re: [newbie] Re: XwinPro

1999-06-09 Thread Martin White
lways have done - just couldn't be bothered with configuring it since i tried DR0.9), the more people are likely to show an interest in Linux. Okay, there's plenty more to a decent OS than a cool working environment (or playing), but that's a major start - anyhows Linux has plenty more anyway !! Martin. PS: I'm in no way connected with vmware, i just think its pretty cool.

Re: [newbie] Upggrade

1999-06-08 Thread Martin Cleaver
undefined symbol: BC   [FAILED]    Itza double Dutch to me :-(   Rgds   Martin

[newbie] Upggrade

1999-06-08 Thread Martin Cleaver
WordPerfect won't read or write to the (fps mounted) data directory on my other machine. As soon as I try to read a file, WP just disappears from memory and as soon as I try to write, it just writes the file name as a nonexecutable file and can't finish the process. WHAT HAPPENED?   Rgds   Martin

[newbie] Insmod query

1999-06-06 Thread Martin White
threw up a warning, but the end result works perfectly.   Does anyone know how i can force the '-f' on bootup so i don't always have to go to a text terminal as root and insert the module manually before starting X as i do at the moment ??   Martin.

Re: [newbie] TNT2 and Venus

1999-05-31 Thread Martin Cleaver
o well:   Rgds   Martin     Ivy.gif

Re: [newbie] A question, comment, and observation oh my!

1999-05-30 Thread Martin Barnard
Ben I downloaded that a while ago, it's not as a screensaver for linux, just a shell process... Martin -- Do not simplify the design of a program if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-26 Thread Martin Cleaver
s to play with, but if Linux is to grow BIG, we also need major distributions for the newbies without the unpeasant surprised... Rgds Martin

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Cleaver
ossible (worse: I lost my Xwindows) If you want it cheap, download it and burn your own. Mandrake is not the standard and necver will be. Pity. It was nice while it lasted. :-( Rgds Martin ,

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Martin White
easier (for me anyway) then you wouldn't complain about the cheaper one existing then - would you ? .Why not have the same item available from more than one place? Obviously you can then go on to look at the differences in distro's in terms of Lothar and all the other things that may or may not be in the pipeline. Over to Mandrakesoft Martin. [SNIP]

Re: [newbie] Relevance of Mandrake

1999-05-24 Thread Martin White
uestion at the moment, there were a lot more 'niggly' things. I can guarantee when Mandrake 6 comes out all bar one of these will not need to be done on my next install. Need i say more... Martin. - Original Message - From: Idris Samawi Hamid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EM

Re: [newbie] Good KDE Email and NNTP programs?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Cleaver
as Netscape for Linux and Windows is apparently unable to collect messages off the serverm leave them there and keep up to date on what it already has. As a resultm while away on a trip, Netscape downloads the same message several times... good for filling the inbox :-( Rgds Martin

Re: [newbie] Anyone used this Main Board??

1999-05-19 Thread Martin White
( The computer based on that board only lasted in my possesion for a mere 6 months before i junked it. Read into that what you will... Martin. - Original Message - From: Kuraiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 2:30 PM Subject: Re: [ne

Re: [newbie] Pppd dies unexpectedly

1999-05-17 Thread Martin Barnard
feet and tossing a temper tantrum and ask for help > WITHOUT the "threats" to give up Linux. You'll get alot further. > > -- > Steve Philp > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Too much is not enough.

Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake

1999-05-17 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 17, 1999 3:06 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Martin White wrote: > > > > I would burn

Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake

1999-05-17 Thread Martin White
things (mainly networking) have not come back up fully operational ;-(. Martin. > > Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scritto: > > [SNIP]

[newbie] Mandrake and KDE 1.1.1

1999-05-16 Thread Martin Cleaver
Mandrake sites warning about this (please put them up now!). Rgds Martin

[newbie] KDE upgrade woes

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Cleaver
er to shut down. How could I be so silly as to think this would work without hassles that mean nothing to a non-nerd like me? :-( Help! Martin

Re: [newbie] SBLive problems (again)

1999-05-15 Thread Martin White
sound for now, but there was a fair bit of talk about the SBLive recently and i wondered if anyone else suffered the same problem. Martin. PS: (to SciFyKid) I _HAVE_ switched off HTML according to the properties of the message in Outlook Express5 anyway, if the mail clients putting some in when i

Re: [newbie] Kget -> Caitoo

1999-05-14 Thread Martin Barnard
I think that you'll have better luck at the linuxberg web site tho' - I tried here & couldn't get the page up either. http://www.linuxberg.com do a search for caitoo. Martin. On Fri, 14 May 1999, you happily destroyed the English language and wrote this instead: > Anyon

Re: [newbie] Guide to configuring ATAPI CD-R for Mandrake

1999-05-14 Thread Martin White
I am about to install RH6 onto my PC this morning. This uses kernel 2.2.5 (i think) and i have a Philips CDD3610 IDE CDR so i'll let you know how i get on later... Martin. - Original Message - From: Roberto Angelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday

Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited

1999-05-12 Thread Martin White
s is a Mandrake list ;-) Martin. - Original Message - From: Lorne Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 7:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited > From: Martin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited

1999-05-12 Thread Martin White
like the rest of the world (or is it just me). Haven't fully worked out the consequences of this yet... Martin. - Original Message - From: Arnold Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 4:26 PM Subject: [newbie] RedHat 6.0 revisited

RE: [newbie] Upgrade Mandrake 5.3 to KDE 1.1.1 ?

1999-05-12 Thread Martin Barnard
main compatible. An alternative would be to move the kde directory into /opt & place a symlink in /usr or /usr/local, depending upon where RH6 placed it. Martin. "Beauty is transitory." "Beauty survives." -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown

Re: [newbie] Como Hacer yo cambio el conectarse Mensaje por Linux.

1999-05-07 Thread Martin Barnard
I wish I could, then I would :( Martin On Sat, 08 May 1999, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: > > > hehe > > ¿¿Ahora todos van a hablar Español?? > (is now everybody going to speak spanish???) > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > G

Re: [newbie] Other user except root can shutdown server?

1999-05-07 Thread Martin Barnard
path is on the su root. To find out what the path is, do an echo $PATH and put the symlink in one of the directories that it spews out to you. That should work. Good luck Martin -- I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts o

[newbie] Voodoo3 support

1999-05-04 Thread Martin White
h my Linux system too (especially as the SBLive drivers are now out).   Martin.

Re: [newbie] Voodoo3 support

1999-05-04 Thread Martin White
for the sanity of the rest of the mailing list !! Martin.

Re: [newbie] Q: XMessageBox

1999-05-02 Thread Martin Barnard
Much thanks, it works perfectly :) If you were wondering, I want to use it in one of my scripts, which cycle through a range of dynamic ip's looking for my friend, who sometimes doesn't use icq/shells & it's difficult to get in touch with him. > xmessage should do what you want. Use it as s

[newbie] Q: XMessageBox

1999-05-01 Thread Martin Barnard
m, or can point me in the direction of making one (I'm currently learning C) then I'd be very grateful. Thanks Martin. -- The so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an "airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full o

Re: [newbie] network

1999-05-01 Thread Martin Barnard
box from win98 and therefore have all the access of a local shell user, but to access the win98 box, you will have to either; a: Set up file/printer sharing on it. b: Get ftp/telnet servers from tucows or somewhere & then run them on the win98 machine. (Windows has no services running as defaul

Re: [newbie] Super Disk & CD Recorders

1999-04-30 Thread Martin Barnard
re: CD-Record software. Which CD Record software would this be? I have just bought a cd recorder & would like to figure out how to use it under Linux. Thanks for any help. Martin Barnard

Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem

1999-04-30 Thread Martin Barnard
o disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here > anyone? > I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend > though. > Rip6 > > I'm using a Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro on my installation with no problems if that helps you? Dunno if it's a multimedia tho'. Martin Barnard

RE: [newbie] Super Disk & CD Recorders

1999-04-30 Thread Martin Barnard
rs are > > supported under Linux. If they are, which brands (CD recorders). > > > > Thanks > > Russ > > While we're on the subject, does anyone know how to get a Phillips CDD 3610 CD Recorder working? Thanks. Martin

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Ps2 Mouse

1999-04-24 Thread Martin Barnard
On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, you wrote: > On Fri, Apr 23, 1999 at 11:53:41PM +0300, Martin Barnard wrote: > > Hi > > I have just bought a new mouse (Ps/2 variety) and am wondering which > > port etc it uses. Any help would be appreciated. I have tried cua0-3 and > > t

[newbie] [Newbie] CD-ReWritable

1999-04-23 Thread Martin Barnard
at's a node? the man's don't help you much). Any instructions on making nodes to re-align my /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdd1 and mounting/unmounting data/audio cd's from the recorder would be a great help. Thanks Martin

[newbie] [Newbie] Ps2 Mouse

1999-04-23 Thread Martin Barnard
Hi I have just bought a new mouse (Ps/2 variety) and am wondering which port etc it uses. Any help would be appreciated. I have tried cua0-3 and ttyS0-3 for most of the mice. The model is Logitech PS/2 Pilot Mouse. Thanks Martin.

Re: [newbie] Creative SB16 PnP

1999-04-21 Thread Martin Barnard
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, you wrote: > Just installed a Creative SB16 PnP Soundcard into one of > our test machines. Anyone have experience with this card? > Linux fails to set it up correctly. > > PnP is turned off btw. I went to http://www.opensound.com and downloaded their drivers etc. Works fine

Re: [newbie] Samba mounting

1999-04-20 Thread Martin Cleaver
a/~yzhang/linux/samba/index.html Rgds Martin -- --- Martin Cleaver MCTranslations/Spot Software phone: +31 20 6162224fax: +31 20 6838188 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://people.a2000.nl/mcleaver

Re: [newbie] Printer

1999-04-19 Thread Martin Cleaver
Jeroen Eijskoot wrote: > > > > I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't > > > > print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not > > > > read file: /dev/lp1. File does not exist or access denied. That's my > > > > printer! :-) > > > > I resta

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer 5.0 setup

1999-04-19 Thread Martin Cleaver
Jeanette Russo wrote: > If you are using the Red Hat rpm. player that one is missing a codec and > will not run. Try the Linux ELF player you get it on the same page. Sounds like a great idea... but hard work for a newbie... why doesn't RA ebug it's contribution? Rgds Mart

Re: [newbie] Printer

1999-04-19 Thread Martin Cleaver
! :-) I restarted linux and found that lp1 was detected, so de-installed and reinstalled the printer, but now in Netscape when I give a print command "lp" it says: sh: lp not found. ??? Rgds Martin

Re: [newbie] Printer

1999-04-19 Thread Martin Cleaver
when I ran a test it said: Error printing test page to queue lp Error reason: lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. Rgds Martin > Martin Cleaver wrote: > > > > I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't >

[newbie] Printer

1999-04-19 Thread Martin Cleaver
I fear I did something silly and have now lost my parallel port. I can't print, and when I look (in file manager) at /dev/lp1 it says "Could not read file: /dev/lp1. File does not exist or access denied. That's my printer! :-) How can I revive an ailing /dev/lp1? Rgds Marti

RE: [newbie] Lots of fatal system crashes.

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Barnard
On Sat, 17 Apr 1999, you wrote: > What are the exact errors he gets. Could be many things but would be much > narrower with specifics. > > Make sure his Hardware isn't bad. I had that problem with the Computer > Re-booting out of X, I found that I had a bad stack of memory chips causing > the

[newbie] Lots of fatal system crashes.

1999-04-17 Thread Martin Barnard
Hi, I was wondering if you could help my friend, he has installed Mandrake on his system and for some reason it keeps crashing (SIGHUP 11) when he does things in X (the whole thing rebooting). His system is: Pentium 166MMX Diamond Stealth 3D2000 (2MB) Video card 32 MB RAM Generic 32x CDRom 6 GIG

Re: [newbie] Mounting SCSI ZIP

1999-04-16 Thread Martin White
your desktop, but thats really straightforward and this emails getting long, so if you want to do that and don't know how send another post Regards, Martin.

Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?

1999-04-14 Thread Martin White
- Original Message - > Martin White wrote: > > > > Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - > > if so what did you set it up as ?? [SNIP] > There was some news about a Linux driver for SBLive. Creative hired a linux > ha

Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives

1999-04-14 Thread Martin White
f this way works for you then you must put the append= part into your lilo.conf and rerun lilo after installation. Try the first method, it'll probably be far easier. Regards, Martin. PS: I'll CC this to the mailing list as it doesn't sound like you are the only person experiencing problems here.

Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives

1999-04-13 Thread Martin White
[SNIP] > Ahh I need. I didn't relieze you had to supply this info... > Okay, i'm off home shortly, i'll look it up and send it on in the morning... [SNIP]

Re: [newbie] SCSI Cards and Zip Drives

1999-04-13 Thread Martin White
I run an AHA152x, which i believe is pretty much the same but without the floppy interface and a bit slower, so i'll try and help... > I'm trying to get my Adaptec AHA 1542b scsi card to work with my linux > system I have gotten it working under Windblows but linux doesn't > seem to like it,

[newbie] Sound Blaster Live anyone ?

1999-04-13 Thread Martin White
Has anybody tried setting up a Sound Blaster Live PCI card under Mandrake - if so what did you set it up as ?? I stupdily forgot all about my Linux setup and was just thinking about HalfLife when i bought it !! Martin.

[newbie] Toshiba 2520CDT

1999-04-12 Thread Martin Cleaver
bad and can probably be corrected, but during boot it stops when trying to initialise the PCMCIA driver... and I can't get any further :-( ANy ideas? Rgds Martin

Re: [[newbie] modem troubles]

1999-04-09 Thread Martin White
Absolutely - unless the situations changed and someone has written some Linux drivers, the modem relies on Windows to take on some of the functionality of the modem. The answer to the question has therefore always been - no, it won't work - sorry it's so negative !!. Martin. ---

[newbie] This list and Outlook

1999-03-31 Thread Martin White
text first). Anybody else noticed this and if so any idea where the option has gone (i'm sure it used to be present in older versions) ??? Till then please excuse any posts i may make !! Martin.

Re: [newbie] Boot disk

1999-03-31 Thread Martin White
Don't quote me on this as i always boot straight from the CD (floppies are so slow these days !!), but i'm pretty sure you will need to create mandrake specific disks as the mandrake setup program is not the standard RH one. Martin. - Original Message - From: Michael Scottali

[newbie] Q: How to install KOffice on Mandrake 5.3? - new GCC or EGCS needed!

1999-02-28 Thread Martin Johnson
s' for GCC and EGCS but when I try to run them I always find dependency problems. Thanks for any help! - martin johnson

Re: [newbie] ext2 filesystem

1999-02-18 Thread Martin White
retrying it should do the trick.   As for the directory situation, yes, everything will be created for you.   Martin. - Original Message - From: Sam Bonham To: newbie Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 7:08 AM Subject: [newbie] ext2 filesystem I let "Making

Re: [newbie] Extra files, empty files on CD made from iso image

1999-02-05 Thread Martin White
i am installing to a PC that can boot from CDRom, i just enabled the boot feature, reset the PC and away i went without having any problems at all. Martin. - Original Message - From: Chris Rhodin To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 04, 1999 8:33 PM Subject: [newbie] Extra files, empty

Re: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor)

1999-01-03 Thread Darin Martin
>- Original Message - >From: Sam Gentile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 1:37 PM >Subject: RE: [newbie] MS releases new Windows and NT Keyboard (humor) > > >Oh, everyone who doesn't agree with your viewpoint is a "Microsoft plant?" >No, I am ju

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