Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-09 Thread Meph Istopheles
Todd, Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. Yes. I've tried

[newbie] 3DForce B-16 nVIDIA RIVA TNT2

2001-04-06 Thread Meph Istopheles
I'm thinking of getting this: http://www.accessmicro.com/productinfo.php3?ProductId=HDJAT3DF2B16RTL I can't find anything but a post to some foreign language list (can't even make out the language -- I think Portugese) on this card. I assume that as it uses nVidia Riva TNT2, it likely

Was [newbie]PDF Now pdf netscape

2001-04-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
Speaking of pdf, I'd noticed something really cool on my girl friend's install of lm7.2 that's not in mine. She can open pdf's right in netscape, but my netscape wants me to save a pdf to disk. Was that a fluke of the html on the page I'd opened that file from, or is there a netscape

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the monitor when I'm away for long periods), let me know. Meph Thanks! Ammon Original post Something

Re: A twist on the OpenSource paradigm: (was RE: [newbie] Linux TaxS oftware?)

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
mebody. That's the way it works!!" -Denis Leary Thank you, Meph Istopheles Manager Aeon AL Providing alternatives for the stagnating mind. http://Aeon-AL.Com

Re: [newbie] Why is my login pass to my ISP not encrypted?

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
I was looking at etc/sysconfig/draknet.adsl_pppoe and my username and pass to login to my ISP account was in plain text, viewable by anyone..Is this normal? Yes, slip ppp (pppoe) are not encrypted. There is another log-in protocol, older (I forget just now what that is), which is, but,

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-04-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Oh, if you figure out the "off" thing -- where the screen just goes black (I'd love it if I could get that to stop so the screen saver really did just run indefinitely, though I turn off the 'xset s noblank' man xset for the myriad of options available. You know, I was thinking

[newbie] emacs -- not Xemacs

2001-04-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Been trying -- failing -- to get emacs installed. The rpm installs everything but the executable the INSTALL file referred to in the README file under /usr/share/doc/emacs-20.7. No more rpms! Anyone know where, as I can't find it, I can find the text- based, relatively current,

RE: [newbie] Automatic Day light Savings Time Change

2001-04-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: 7.2 does this just fine! Yes, though I wasn't expecting it -- my previous os (RH 6.0) only did so on one of three boxes, though each was set to do so. In spite of all the gui-centricity of lm7.2 (don't mind me -- I'm just leaning more more toward

Re: [newbie] Automatic Day light Savings Time Change

2001-04-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Yes, though I wasn't expecting it -- my previous os (RH 6.0) only did so on one of three boxes, though each was set to do so. I wonder why it works on some configurations and not on others? Can't say -- beyond bad coding. This kind of thing is much more common in M$ os' apps --

Re: [newbie] Merge several html docs into one?

2001-04-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Is there a quick and easy way to merge several html docs into one file? Can the images also be merged at the same time? Have you tried cat'ing them with something like: cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to copy them to another) cat file,file,file,etc newfile (to move them to another) I

Re: [newbie] Enlightenment ScreenSavers

2001-03-31 Thread Meph Istopheles
Adrian Smith wrote: well, i use E and i never knew it had a screen saver. On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Jesse C. Chang wrote: There's an Epplet called E-ScreenSave, but I have yet to get it to work. Not that I've tried very hard, but... Having the screen automatically go black after 10 minutes

Re: [newbie] Crystal Audio PnP soundcard Problems.

2001-03-31 Thread Meph Istopheles
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Stefan Buller wrote: I have a Crystal Audio PnP soundcard. Harddrake comes up with 3 components: Crystal PnP Audio System CODEC Crystal PnP Audio System MPU-401 Crystal PnP Audio System Control Registers The CODEC seems to be fine, under Kernel Module the MPU-401

Re: [newbie] Runlevel 5 question

2001-03-25 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning Barbara, On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Barbara Pfieffer wrote: When I installed 7.1 I set it up to go to a graphical login. It works great. But, how can I change to just logging on in a console? If I need to that is. As always, if there is a HOW-TO or other info out there, please point me

Re: [newbie] gnome

2001-03-24 Thread Meph Istopheles
Stefaans, From my dim past I can remember there is a way arounnd by putting a .bashrc file in your home directory but there must be an easier way!! That's actually handled by ~/.xsession file. At the end, after any stuff you want to open, you put this: exec /usr/bin/enlightenment In

Re: [newbie] traceroute for linux

2001-03-24 Thread Meph Istopheles
it looks like mandrake didn't come with traceroute, it that true aor am i just not looking for the write file It ~is~ there, on the CD. I was a little disappointed finding that few of the basic (necessary, imo) networking tools aren't installed on the quick 'n easy install. But not a

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-17 Thread Meph Istopheles
Moose, I am using tcp/ip. I'm in the process of setting up a proxy server, so I needed something routable... Shouldn't be any problem with -- at least -- getting from the Windows box to the Linux box. You'll need other tools -- smb, Reflection, etc to get from the Linux to Windows.

Re: [newbie] Anybody got Sane working yet?

2001-03-16 Thread Meph Istopheles
Graham, I've tried to use Sane under MDK 7.2 but with no luck so far. It tells me that no sane devices are detected. I have a Plustek 9630 parallel port scanner and there appears to be a Plustek back end. Is there anything I need to configure to get a result? Though it didn't work for

Re: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jeff, Hell, Can some one advise me on the best way to allow Mandrake 7.2 to read and write to my FAT NTFS partitions? Well, it could be a little tricky depending upon a few things. First, You say you'd installed NTFS, you may have to recompile your kernel choose the r/w module. (Though

RE: [newbie] read/write to and from NTFS/FAT

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
Whether Jeff wants the detailed instructions or not, I would like them. Thanks a bunch. Alright Moose ( all), Keep in mind that there are reasons some do this one way reasons others do this another. I, by no means, claim the only or right way, but a way I've learned which works for me

Re: [newbie] Telnet

2001-03-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
does anyone know how I can copy files from a Win2k telnet server to a linux box? or is this possible? if anyone knows pls let me know Well, if you don't have ftp available on the Windows box, the only way ~I~ know is to open the file with a text editor highlight paste into an editor on

Re: [newbie] Curiosity

2001-03-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, On Monday 12 March 2001 00:47, Derek Rayne wrote: Warning: The following hosts are unknown: home.netscape.com home6.netscape.com internic.net On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: When I got fed up with getting the same message from Netscape

Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning Vic, On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Vic wrote: Yeah, all I wanted was aback up for when both ICQ and aol im puck up and don't me connect Might have a look at EveryBuddy. I'd only set it up once for a friend who was temporarily on AOL. She was never on-line when I'd tried to find her, so

Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
On Monday 05 March 2001 03:57, you wrote: I don't see what good 'talk' is. Apparently other people can't either, which is why we have proprietary ICQ protocol clients and servers etc. While I've not been using Linux more than a couple of years, I'd started back in later '94/early '95

Re: [newbie] Tax software

2001-03-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
Has anyone found properly functioning tax filing software for linux yet? I have search to no avail. I'd searched all over last year. I remember a few which purported to work in Linux, but they wanted some unrealistic amount of money for the app. I really don't get that -- don't those of

[newbie] Wacko resolution

2001-03-10 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Till this morning, I've been running X at 1280 res with 4 billion colours. Now, I get an unspecified error when I try to change the 16-bit colour at 1024 res. I'd figured maybe it was time to switch to XFree 4.01. Can't find how other than to install it. Did that, no change. Even

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2001-03-06 Thread Meph Istopheles
Robert, Meph, I have downloaded the two rpm files for sendmail. I found, however that I do have postfix. Would I be better off running this? Also would it send it to pine? Either way. I've been doing what you're trying to with postfix since installing lm7.2. I'd been using sendmail

Re: [newbie] Running Pronto

2001-03-05 Thread Meph Istopheles
Chris, After installing pronto I get "Can't locate MIME/Types.pm in @INC" when trying to run it. And it lists various directories, none of which have Types.pm. There a several Types.pm on my machine, however none are in the directory MIME. Have you sub'd to the pronto mailing list? I

Re: [newbie] More printing problems.

2001-03-04 Thread Meph Istopheles
Renaud, Only the Printer Configuration in DraxConf "sees" the installed printers, all the other config progs fail to see them. You'd said that you'd set a printer up, did you do so in DrakConf, or is that what you mean by DraxConf? I'd had trouble with this after the last (not the

Re: [newbie] NETSCAPE.

2001-03-04 Thread Meph Istopheles
Any body knows... What can I do for clean the history of Netscape? I just do: rm ./.netscape/cache/* then: rm ./.netscape/xover-cache/* Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux

Re: [newbie] sendmail

2001-03-04 Thread Meph Istopheles
I am having trouble getting sendmail. I used drakeconf to find what I need, but neither of my cd's seemed to have the files it was looking for one was sendmail-rc. How can I get sendmail to work, so I can use pine Robert Boggs Next step is to go to: http://www.rpmfind.net Get the

Re: [newbie] Global .bashrc? (was: Real rm?)

2001-03-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Thanks Meph. It drives me nuts too. The problem is that I use several users, for different purposes. Since they are all me, they all want the usual Unix response to "rm." It's annoying to have to edit every single ~./.bashrc. Where do I find the "global" or "master" .bashrc

Re: [newbie] /usr/sbin/install-menu?

2001-03-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
I have just been trying to install XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk.i586.rpm, using the command rpm -i filename. This failed because of three dependencies. The third of these dependencies is that a /usr/sbin/install-menu is needed by XFree86-4.0.1-28mdk. Am I supposed to create that

Re: [newbie] Real time?

2001-02-23 Thread Meph Istopheles
Uh, I think you mean rdate (the "r" for remote)...? Meph no Meph (?) Yes, Meph, as in Mephistopheles. look at my alias, tdate - rdate. Oops. Sorry. Hadn't noticed that bit. Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the original problem was a mismatch of less than an hour.

RE: [newbie] Real rm?

2001-02-23 Thread Meph Istopheles
Frankie, yeah and if you accidenly slip when someone calls you, and your are su'd to root, and you put a little asterix in there,, things would get really interesting... I like having a last chance,, Naturally. Accidents are bound to happen to everyone. Maybe I like living with a

[newbie] TextConfig or SVGATextMode

2001-02-22 Thread Meph Istopheles
I'd found this some time ago went to play with it today, but ther're neither /etc/TexConfig nor SVGATextMode on my system. Is there an lm7.2 specific way to change the console res? Meph Text Mode - Resolution There is a nifty utility called SVGATextMode that lets you really tweak your

Re: [newbie] Real rm?

2001-02-22 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, When I give the command "rm annoyingfile" I expect annoyingfile to disappear -- not to be asked rm: remove 'annoyingfile'? What's the point of asking that? I wouldn't have given the command rm if I didn't want to remove annoyingfile, would I? How do I change the

Re: [newbie] Finding monitor specifications.

2001-02-19 Thread Meph Istopheles
April, I have a Samsung SyncMaster 4Ne (it says that in big letters on the front of my monitor), but the samsung site doesn't awknowledge the existance of something this old. So, does anyone know of an -intelligent- way to go about guessing my monitor specifications? I suppose you've

[newbie] words file

2001-02-17 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I'm running lm7.2 went to spell check something in pine because of the spelling of a word I was confused about. Turns out that ispell's (3.1.20) words file wasn't installed. OK, check the CD -- no words file. Now, I find on rpmfind that the only mandrake (non cooker or src) file which

Re: [newbie] DB2 and cron.daily problem solved!

2001-02-15 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jacqueline, Update . . . I found the answer with a search of the http://www.google.com/linux site. It's from the newbie archives, but for some reason the message didn't come up when I first searched. - So for the first time, today, I did not get this

Re: [newbie] re : crashing x

2001-02-14 Thread Meph Istopheles
resolution is 1280 x 1024 . on a viewsonic 17 inch monitor . at 16 bit res . admittedly , the res is high , but nothing the 3dfx card couldnt handle . Perhaps. But have you ~tried~ a lower res? You see, it's not a matter of what any piece of hardware can handle, it's the driver being

Re: [newbie] Virtual Console Switching

2001-02-13 Thread Meph Istopheles
I cannot use the Alt Function keys to switch to a Virtual Console. Alt F1 brings up the Menu. The others, nothing... I need access to Consoles. Is there a way to do this? As I recall, under my previous Red Hat installation I could do it. You want Ctl+Alt+F1, or F2, etc. Then, to go

Re: [newbie] printer and cups no longer available

2001-02-13 Thread Meph Istopheles
Frederic, I have just installed the update of the cups files with the Update tools from Mandrake (7.2 version). Since then, I can not print anymore. The commands like lpd do not exist anymore. When I try ton configure my printer with the cups tools, nothing happens. When I use the

Re: [newbie] crashing x

2001-02-13 Thread Meph Istopheles
mischaco, x crashes , leaving no details 100 % of the time with no discernable pattern . i have installed mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 with similar results . there are NO irq issues , usb is disabled . i have used every video card i own : the issue is worse when i use a 3 button ( optical or

[newbie] Update trouble

2001-02-10 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Three minor problems due to updates -- one in an attempt to install a scanner driver the others due to MandrakeUpdate: 1. I'd installed various binaries rpms trying to get a scanner driver installled to no avail. Now I get some libc errors when opening images. The images open, but

[newbie] perl: warning: Setting locale failed.

2001-02-10 Thread Meph Istopheles
I've been getting this (maybe only since updated things via Mandrake Update last night -- re. my previous query): [Sat Feb 10] [meph meph]$ perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LANGUAGE = "en_US:en", LC_ALL = (unset),

Re: [newbie] KMail: New mail notification

2001-02-08 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Steven Boothe wrote: Greetings: Would someone please help me change the sound notification of incoming mail? There is an[...] option to "Execute command line on new mail", but I don't have any idea of what to put there. Version: KDE 2.0.1 As a side note, wouldn't it be

Re: [newbie] Red Hat to Mandrake

2001-02-08 Thread Meph Istopheles
Blaine, ...In the meantime another co-worker who I have helped out on Unix systems where I work has given me Mandrake 7.2 CD's along with StarOffice CD's. I would like to try out all this but I have a question before proceeding - do I need to "wipe out" the Red Had before proceeding or do

[newbie] Text boot graphic

2001-02-07 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, You know the penguin graphic the info about the 'puter which comes up when booting to a text login? Well, I'm not too hot for the graphic find the info about the box a huge security hole (same thing comes up when telnetting or ssh'ing in -- though without the graphic). I'd edited

Re: [newbie] HD bad sectors

2001-02-04 Thread Meph Istopheles
Does it just avoid these sectors? Or am I in for corrupted files and lost data? You will be if you use it as is -- assuming ~anything~ even writes to it without complaint. Run fscheck on it. There are lots of differnet options available in the man file. I have a few 580MB drives one

[newbie] OK. Let's try this....

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Guess no one could make out what I was on about with the tape drive, so lemme try another angle: What is the lm7.2 way to install new hardware -- particularly hardware with it's own scsi card? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor,

[newbie] Re: More on DB2 and slocate (cron daily problem)

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Jacqueline et al, Thanks to Meph and others who replied to my original question. I've looked a little further and can give some more details, so I am going to send this again. Does anyone know what DB2 refers to? All I want to do is _get rid_ of the following daily message:

Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved

2001-02-03 Thread Meph Istopheles
I'm into KDE 2.1 now, but I really appreciate your input as I have been wanting to play with Pine for some time now. I just found the user friendliness of Kmail setup appealing. Pine seemed to be a bit more esoteric. Do you know of a good howto on it? Hmm. Not really. But there's

[newbie] Tape drive scsi card

2001-02-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Finally, after long searching, I'm ready. Some months ago I was given an HP tape drive by the head of IS where I work. But I've not installed it because 1. he didn't have either a cable or a scsi card for it, 2. buying either a scsi cable to go from centronics to scsi 3 (the port I

Re: [newbie] Emergency...solved

2001-02-02 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I've never seen 'em change by anything or anybody but the USER ; BTW what happened to my fonts? when i opened this post i am all of a sudden getting those giant dotted letters? but only in the kmail body, not any of the headers. While I can't address your bios thing, this

Re: [newbie] hosts.allow Question Clarification

2001-01-31 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I have a few friends whom I share access to their linux boxes and in return I give them access to mine... it's a tit for tat thing. If I want to block everyone except certain IP's, how can I do that? While the previous post will get you what you're after under most circumstances,

Re: [newbie] USB Question

2001-01-30 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Aaron, I was in HardDrake seeing if my new network card was detected when I noticed something about my SmartCard Reader that I never noticed before. This is what it says in the infomation section of the device: Informations: This device hasn't been identified by HardDrake, please

Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners

2001-01-30 Thread Meph Istopheles
Uli, I don't know anything about Silitek but the Plustek parallel port scanners work very well with linux (even better than with windows because the system is not blocked during scanning). You should install the following rpms: sane-1.0.4-1mdk sane-frontends-1.0.4-1mdk

Re: [newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners

2001-01-28 Thread Meph Istopheles
Uli, Meph Istopheles wrote: Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the module for the Plustek (parallel) requires first installing the module into the sane directory then recompiling sane. Uh, is there a way

Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Note also that I've used it on NT 4.0 in more than one install on one of two with W2k have yet to run into trouble. Yes, it ~is~ experimental, but what isn't?;-) Meph Note that it is _not_ recommended to enable NTFS write access. I always used to use a small FAT partition as a

Re: [newbie] Trying to download mail from a server running postfix

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Christian, I've setup postfix on a mdk 7.2 server but I'm having problems downloading mails from it, when I try to download via fetchmail I get: snap [number1@liquid number1]$ fetchmail -p POP3 -u number1 borg.deltacomputers.no Enter password for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 1 message for number1

[newbie] Plustek/Silitek scanners

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning, Now it's my turn to ask about scanners. I have two I've yet to get working in either Linux or W2k (I may be onto something with the Silitek in W2k, but I'm waiting on a response from someone on that). In any case, in lm7.2, everything, of course, is rpm. Trouble is, the

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Michael, I have an unsupported epson printer. I know that! But I would really like to see if, like the LM Hardware site says, it will "work in text mode". What you're looking to set up is printcap using (I suppose) postscript (a printer font -- there's more involved, but I don't know a

Re: [newbie] Setting the time

2001-01-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Fred, Does anyone know how to sync the time with an atomic clock Try this: # date -s world.std.com also my time always seems to be off by 1 hour, even if I select DST in linuxconf, any ideas? Well, I'd seen this -- some time ago -- in the linux@egroups list. I think that it

Re: [newbie] Win2000 Partition

2001-01-26 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Has this been addressed yet? If not How can I set LM7.2 to see a Win2000 partition? This depends upon two things: 1. What format you'd chosen to install W2k on (ntfs or fat32) 2. Depending upon your answer to 1., how your kernel's compiled. If you'd installed W2k on ntfs,

[newbie] Cron root@Ra-Hoor run-parts /etc/cron.daily (fwd)

2001-01-24 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I keep getting this: -- Forwarded message -- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron root@Ra-Hoor run-parts /etc/cron.daily From: Cron Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:03:22 -0800 (PST) DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified It shows up

Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs

2001-01-22 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Hi, thanks that I could install my LM7.2 and W2K in the same hard disk without any trouble and with grub as the boot manager! Well, let's say with "some" trouble. I too ran into trouble with ntfs. When I'd installed lm7.2 on my girlfriend's box, I'd alrady an existing dual-boot

Re: [newbie] can't view ntfs

2001-01-22 Thread Meph Istopheles
Emilio, Ok it would be very usefull to install this modules and to recompile my kernel in order to view ntfs in LM7.2, I accept because I have never done it. Thanks No problem. Now, though trouble rarely occurse, be sure to back up your data first. And be sure to read my

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner with a SCSI... Man, a few months ago I was looking all over for one of those, but the scsi version was nowhere to be found except on e-bay, I missed out on them. How can installed ??? Anyway, at the time I was looking for one, I was running RedHat 6.0.

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Seb, does anyone know how to get a Scanmaker e3 plus to work in LM 7.2 ? It's parralllel Have you tried first, DrakeConf? I've never heard of this manufacturer, but if it's there, you're set. Second would be to check the Linux /or sane hardware compatibility docs. Like the last

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Winnt

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Bob, Yup, I did read that, and a bunch more... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MultiOS-HOWTO.html The how to, although having plenty of good info, does not address win/2000 or nt at all since the author had neither. Sorry. Thought I mentioned that. The reason I'd suggested it was for

[newbie] VMWare license

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, OK. Maybe my last query on this was just too damned wordy;-). Where is the license.txt for VMWare? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux

Re: [newbie] Terratec sound card with CS4624

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Does anyone Know how can i install the Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card? (CS 4624) I have a Crystal Audio card which uses the cs4624 (I think -- HardDrake can't seem to figure it out). I got shound working first with a lesser module, but later with the right one. Do a CTL+ALT+F2 (if

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
Do you know of a decent scanning suite? I don't know if you're familar with Pagis Pro for windows, but I could really use something like that for Linux. Sorry. I've only recently come by a scanner. It's one of the Silitek's not supported either by sane or W2k (though the driver for W2k

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-21 Thread Meph Istopheles
The average income in very small towns like trout creek montana (9 hours from seattle at 90mph) You're neglection the variable time involved on the shoulder of the 90 while the trooper writes you up lectures you on speeding;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Winnt

2001-01-20 Thread Meph Istopheles
At 20-01-2001 +0800, you wrote: Can Linux Mandrake dual-boot with Windows 2000? And how to do so?( i have heared that linux's bootloader cannot boot Winows nt) FYI http://www.maximum.inux.com/howtos/howto/2000_05_23/quad_boot.html With or without that link, while you really ought

[newbie] w3m

2001-01-20 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Does anyone here use the text browser w3m? I'd used it as my primary browser in RedHat 6.0 am using the 586 mdk rpm in lm7.2. I'd first installed the rpm to find that it appears to install the japanese version, but setting the English after it's installed doesn't fix what I get.

Re: [newbie] can't switch consoles, why?

2001-01-16 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Ty, ...I haven't been able to figure out in Mandrake 7.2 is why can't I switch consoles using the norml ctrl alt f1-f7? I'm not in xwindows when attemtping to do this... When I try nothing happens... I might suggest that you might just be impatient. I've noticed that there's

Re: [newbie]Problem opening photo attachments

2001-01-14 Thread Meph Istopheles
Harcia, Dear All, Someone sent me some photos in BMP format and I cannot find a way to open them. Is there a way to do this? I have Netscape 4.75 and LM7.2. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Marcia If you'd not quite figured it out from the previous guy's response, NS

Re: [newbie] configuring LILO.

2001-01-14 Thread Meph Istopheles
Sean, Klilo keeps telling me my Hd is too big for it to reconfigure the boot sequence, and although I've edited lilo.conf I still can't get my machine to boot into the win partition by default, lilo seems to be ignoring the edit I've done. Have I missed something? Here's the first bit

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-13 Thread Meph Istopheles
in a few games which before lagged for very long periods before indicating they'd not actually crashed;-). Meph Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ? Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a similar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's go

RE: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose those not using glide) are unchanged. Switched to the other XFree

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Nev, Sorry for butting in as well - but I too have a diamond viper 770 and I just came off SuSE to mandrake. In SuSE I had to download the latest drivers nvdriver.rpm and nv_glx.rpm and activate the 3D part of it in the XF86Config - and ensure the nvidia was selected in preference to

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-12 Thread Meph Istopheles
Yes it is. [Snipped a bunch of very important but unnecessary stuff];-) For my money I thing Mandrake is really triying, while other distro's are not. So Mandrake keep up the good work. Dude (et al), I apologize to have given the impression that I don't care for lm's support. I've been

Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive

2001-01-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
Jay wrote: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb2/mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat So I think you should have: /dev/hdb2 /mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat rw 0 0 If I'm not mistaken, you have to create /mnt/DOS_hdb2 before this will work. I *think* I used "touch

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel not running

2001-01-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
Francisco, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and doesn't

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Well, while I've not actually posted via their site, I've issues with two of my cards (Diamond Viper 770D

Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive

2001-01-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
Tom, I'm not aware of there being any problem making mountpoints off / like /win. That way, you not only save yourself a little typing, but have a meaningful shortcut to the actual device (which I think is the whole point). I favor doing this too. I always move my Windoze HDD

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Thread Meph Istopheles
I've heard nothing from them but the auto-responder to let me know they'd got each of the e-mails. So, is MandrakeSoft any better at support than, say, M$? I sent in an e-mail for support and got a response back in about 24 hours. That's cool. Wonder if they'll come up with

[newbie] Forwarded mail.... (fwd)

2001-01-10 Thread Meph Istopheles
TED]" when I've never used the whole of the rfc address in the many years I've had an account with my Web host. So, anyone (civileme?) know what's up with this? Meph -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 18:04:23 -0800 (PST) From: Meph Istopheles [EMAIL PROTEC

[newbie] Terminal window dupes

2001-01-07 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I've never seen this happen in SunOS, RedHat 5.0, or RedHat 6.0. What's the deal? Lately, I'm finding that if I open my pine in a terminal window either opening at start of E or afterward, that ( only that) terminal window duplicates itself on all four of my main desktops. Worse,

[newbie] Another day, another sound problem

2001-01-07 Thread Meph Istopheles
Morning, After having struggled for some days trying to get my Crystal Audio (CS4236B) working, I'd finally succeeded by using /sbin/sndconfig with the first of the ESS modules then using drakconf to configure specifically for CCrystal PnP Audio System CODEC (CS4232) module. Things were

Re: [newbie] Terminal window dupes

2001-01-07 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey John, Any idea what could cause a terminal window to auto- duplicate on each desktop? That's a similar problem to one I have I'll click on an application icon and get multiple occurrances opened up. Tom reminded me of something I remember reading long ago that the

Re: [newbie] Grub

2001-01-06 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Alan, Mephit appears that on this execution of lilo, lilo was written to the MBR of hda. Have you tried rebooting since running it? Finally took the time (Well, time ~is~ limited during the week, after all) to reboot. I'm still getting grub. I don't get it at all. Is just

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey Dennis, Thanks for the reply Meph No problem. I find it a little annoying that it takes so long. But I suspect it may be Mandrakesoft's "answer" to duplicate posts. They'll get it right eventually. I was afraid I had broken something again. I tend to fool around with this OS and

Re: [newbie] Look and Feel in applications in MDK7.2

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I don't know if it's the way I have set up the look. I have noticed that Netscape and other applications still have a stark, knobby look to the drop down menus. It's not your config. Some apps aren't effected by either gnome's or kde's colour configs. To get most of the rest

Re: [newbie] Realplayer question?

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Ronald, I went to a site that uses realplayer, and I got a dialog box saying that it had expired. I followed the links back to www.real.com, but they only have (that I could find) a new version 8 of RealPlayer for Unix. Its an RPM, so I d/l'ed it, and tried to install it, but it says its

Re: [newbie] Still no RealPlayer?

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Okay, I grabbed RealPlayer v7 from RPMfind.net, and installed it. Went thru the installation routine. It still blows up a dialog box saying my copy has expired just as soon as I run it. Can anyone tell me what file(s) I need to delete so that it doesn't see itself as an expired copy, even

[newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in any other distro to load lilo), but having done this

Re: [newbie] Grub

2001-01-01 Thread Meph Istopheles
Irwan, At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-). For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub. Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to do was run /sbin/lilo

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