Re: [newbie] fonts too small

ctrl+ for mozilla, then ctrl- to reduce Damian Gatabria wrote: hi! does anyone know how to make fonts bigger for browsers? i'm finding more and more websites difficult to read ( my screen resolution is not that high ) and i can't find an option on any of them to enlarge the text Only on

Re: [newbie] Disappearing Menu Items

I had the same thing happen to me in that HancomOffice menu dissapeared when I installed KDE 3. I found it in file:/usr/share/applnk/HancomOffice2. I just copied the directory over to my file:/home/username/.kde/share/applnk-mdk/HancomOffice2 and it reappeared and worked as normal. I'm not

[newbie] Md menu - where is it kept

If I had to completely reinstall md8.1 what file would I need to backup in order to reinstate my present KDE/Md menu structure. Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Mozilla and Flash

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 since noticed that if you run mozilla using the same

Re: [newbie] Gnumeric crash

have you tried running it from the gnome desktop? Paul wrote: Hi all, all of a sudden Gnumeric crashes on me. I use it regularly, even yesterday. Today I want to load it and it crashes. I uninstalled and installed it again: crash. Rebooted the machine to make sure that all memory and processes

[newbie] x686 and Athlon Kernel Settings

I have an Athlon 800 and my kernel following installation is set at an x686 processor. Is there any real advantage by re-setting the kernel to the Athlon/Duron setting? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Capturing audio

grecord came with md 8.1 and should already be on your system. Nev -- John Rye wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone

Re: [newbie] Capturing audio

grecord came with md 8.1 and should already be on your system. Nev -- John Rye wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a usable program for capturing audio from my soundcard. I've hunted all over Freshmeat and Google but don't seem to be abble to find anything which compiles let alone

[newbie] Gkrellm on top always plus all desktops

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to have Gkrellm always on top and on all desktops? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Gkrellm on top always plus all desktops

Thanks, it worked - much appreciated as I couldn't find it in the documentation that came with the rpm. Nev s wrote: On Sunday 23 December 2001 09:39 pm, you wrote: Can anyone tell me what I need to do to have Gkrellm always on top and on all desktops? Nev /usr/bin/kstart --skiptaskbar

Re: [newbie] Realplayer8 Netscape and Mozilla

Thanks for the tip however it looks as if mozilla 0.9.7 has solved the problems that I was experiencing with 0.9.6 including the pop-up control you mentioned below.. tester wrote: On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 13:11, Neville Cobb wrote: I've been reading all the posts regarding the operation

Re: [newbie] adsl problems

my ADSLwouldn't work until I put the line search vic.bigpond@. above the PDNS and SDNS entries in the resolve.conf file Nev Paul Rodríguez wrote: Did you set the propper primary and secondary dns server addresses when you set up pppoe? You get these numbers from your ISP. Second, check

[newbie] Realplayer8 Netscape and Mozilla

I've been reading all the posts regarding the operation of Realplayer and Mozilla as I was experiencing problems with Realplay in that it would not pop-up when the appropriate URL was clicked on. I eventually solved the problem by installing netscape 6.2.1 from the netscape site. Real Player

[newbie] Mozilla Plugin Vs Helper Application

Is there a difference between a plug-in and a helper application. For example if I place a plugin in the mozilla plugins directory is it necessary to also add an entry in the helper applications area, or does mozilla automatically know what to do with the plugin? I'm a little confused with

Re: [newbie] How to find Space on HD?

I too am used to the tools of windows and have found that xdiskusage useful in linux as it shows disk usage in a graph for a selected partition. You'll need to install egcs-c++ rpm as well and you'll need to run it as root. You can use the binary at this location just change the permissions

[newbie] kwintv

If anyone is interested there is an rpm for kwintv that works fine on md8.1 at http://ftp.kde.com/Multimedia/Video/kwintv/mandrake/ Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] xine brightness control working???

Has anyone been able to get xine's brightness control to work or is that part not yet fully developed? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kapm-idled?

Just noticed this myself, taking up 40% cpu and caused the desktop to be very slow. I was running a gnome program just before. I had to log out and log back in. Nev = Mark Stewart wrote: I've noticed this, too, but only when I'm running Gnome, never when I'm running KDE. Does

[newbie] ppoe question - ADSL

Why is it that I need to edit /etc/ppp/resolve.conf and add the search domain at the top above the PDNS and SNDS in order to get my e-mail working? I then have the edit /etc/ppp/pppoe.conf to stop it overwriting resolve.conf. Could it be something that I've done or maybe there is a step I

[newbie] What is the long term plan for NS ans Mozilla

Does any one know what the long term plan is for Netscape 4.series, 6.series and mozilla. Will Netscape 6.series replace the 4.series on Mndrake some day? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] mandrake linux on athlon-based systems?

I've got an athlon 800 and found problems with 8.0 and USB - would not load on install. However with 8.1 all works fine. Nwv = tek1 wrote: just wondering how well mandrake/linux works on athlon-based systems? are there any issues which i need to be careful about? thanks.

[newbie] Strange Mount Problem

When I boot md 8.1 and try to transfer a file from my home partition to my vfat partition I receive an error message Can't write to /dev/win_d. The strange thing is that if I unmount the vfat partition and remount it I can then transfer the file to the vfat partition. Is there one file or

Re: [newbie] Cannot write to fat32 partition !?

Just tried mine and also could not also write, I found that the bit below was missing from the fstab line compared to my other vfat partition to which I could write to. user,exec,dev,suid,rw,umask=0, Nev == Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! After a fresh install of 8.1 i am not able to

Re: [newbie] bigpond adsl + evolution

Mike Below is my notes based on my experience with mail and md8.1, hope they may be helpful. I'm not sure if I've gone about it the right way but it certainly worked for me ever since. It became very frustrating for me trying to resolve. Nev Getting Mail to Work I had a problem with 8.1 in

Re: [newbie] auto mounting cdrom

I created new desktop icons on the KDE desktop and they work fine, and then it is a simple matter of right clicking on the icon to unmount or eject. Nev Joe Simon wrote: Hi: How do you auto mount the cdrom in Mandrake Linux? When I put a cd in the cdrom drive I don't want to

Re: [newbie] soundrecording

Marcia I use a program called krecord, its easy to find and compile. Have a look at http://apps.kde.com/uk/0/latest?sid=0fc1433a408d528648e78e7b69e0e7bb Nev Marcia wrote: Dear All, I have LM8 and I use KDE. I would like to use my microphone to record my voice and to playback. I am

Re: [newbie] 8.1 ~ Floppy not working

When I installed 8.1 I had the same problem and had to create my own floppy icon on the desktop and it worked fine, then I deleted the original one. Nev == Ralph Slooten wrote: Well, I decided to reinstall, as I could not figure out what the problem is, but even after a fresh install, my

[newbie] Re: 8.1 mail

Mail problem still occuring. I found that the settings in the file /etc/resolve.conf keep being overidden each time the system boots. It remoces the search string and reverses the DNS order. If I edit the file Mail works straight away but I have to do this on each subsequent reboot. Is there

[newbie] Graphic LiLo Gone

SInce upgrading to md freq3 my graphical lilo has been replaced with the text one and I can't get it back even through using the mandrake control center. Is there a file that I can tweak to get it back? Nev Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] ADSL Weirdness

I changed my ADSL password using windows but after that I could not get an ADSL connection using Lunix again so I reconfigured md ADSL several times and still no connection. I then reinstalled Md8+freq2 with the new ADSL password and I got a connection 1st time. Nev

[newbie] ADSL Config File Md8

Can anyone tell me what file contains the DNS Primary and Secondary values which I had to enter in my ADLS setup. Nev

[newbie] Star Office Can't Save

After Install of 8.0 I could not save a document to a vfat partition, neither could root. However I can write to it using the file manager. Any clues? Nev

[newbie] USB Question

I had an Athlon800 and motherboard to suit. Everything went well under 7.2 but when I installed lm8.0 it would not recognise my USB mouse. After installing with a PS/2 mouse I had a look at hte log file, the following message appeared, what does it mean - is it totally unsupported. I've since

[newbie] WEB Page Downloader?

In other operating systems I've used programs that are able to download a chosen web site and you can also select the levels or depth you want to go down for the download. Is there such a program for linux? If there is one is it part of the Mandrake power pack or do I have to download one

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

The URL for Xdiskusage is http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/ The page contain a binary which can be run by a user if you change the execute permissions on the file once you download it. Neville Cobb wrote: If you are using KDE2 you can obtain that data by right clicking on the directory

[newbie] mozilla question - view text size wont save

Is there anyone using mozilla 0.8 that may know how I can save the settings for 'view/text size'. It works fine but it doesn't appear to be saved and I have to re-select 120% each time I run mail. Nev

Re: [newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

Vic wrote: Hello list. Upon installing the new Beta Mandrake Traktopel 8 release on a system using an AMD K6-400 cpu, 192Mb system ram, S3 Virge video card, 10Gb Quantum harddrive UDMA 33, with VIA chipset, AWE64 Soundblaster ISA card, a zip250 using the zip zoom card (aic7xxx), an old

Re: [newbie] Basic question re startup scripts

"Henryk M. Kowalski" wrote: Forgive the "less than newbie" nature of this question. I'm sure there's written info on this out there already, but I can't find it... In Linux Mandrake, (specifically 6.x, 7.0 and 7.2): what is the basic order of startup scripts that are executed when the

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2001 12:00 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which would allow me to launch Konqueror as root (with a dialog box asking me for my root password) so I can access my files. On the menu, Applications | File tools | File

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

Joseph Red wrote: I've got the Diamond 770U (tnt2-ultra). I have quite decent performance using XFree 3.xx. I just used whatever the install (7.2) recommended. If I'm not mistaken Nvidia has special drivers for the TNT2 based cards, though. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

[newbie] Mandrake Menu - Addition

I generally have little complaints about the menuing system as it works great for me. However there is just one little part I'd like mandrake to add in future md updates. WHen you generate an application on the desktop in kDE2 you have the option of running it as a different user. This is really

[newbie] File Manager Performance Differences

When I open the /mandrake/RPM directory on md 7.2 CD1 using Konqueror it takes ages for it to load the list of rpm files whereas if I use either GMC or XWC File Manager the list appears almost instantly. Don't know there would be any difference at all. Nev

Re: [newbie] Lost autologin feature, How do I get it back?

John Batt wrote: After using LM 7.2 for about 2 months I received the following, and still receive, the following error on at the end of booting: error: No such user John Batt! I then have to type in the user name and password to login. How do I get my autologin feature back? --

Re: [newbie] Word Compatibility of - Kwork - Abiword - WP - StartOffice - etc

Rick Commo wrote: Ok... I'll at least change the subject name before I ask the question or Mark and Roman will personally fly out here and get me!! Mark raises an interesting possibility. The question is *how* compatible. Does any of the readership have any *real* experience. I am

[newbie] Login Screen Size

I have installed my system to a resolution of 1280x1024 using the experienced option but the login screen appears to be at very low resolution. Can I up the resolution of the login screen and how. When I previously installed using the customised option the login screen matched the X resolution

Re: [newbie] Netscape

Herman Christiani wrote: Hi All, Can somebody tell me what is the latest 4.7x version of Netscape? I'm running 4.73, after trying to find a later version I was told by Netscape that I was already running the latest version for my platform (MD 7.1), afaik the latest is 4.76, will this not

Re: [newbie] how to write scripts

Have you read the beginners guide to linux that came with md7.2, a file called rute.pdf. I also believe cron the scheduler is what you need. Have a look at a program called 'task scheduler' in the menu configuration/other Nev Melanie Vida wrote: Can someone please give me clear detailed

Re: [newbie] adding to the path

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ML 7.0 box that I am using at work to play with as a firewall. I have installed the firewall software that my company uses to work withproblem isif I want to start the configuration program -- on our production machine (sun ultra10) I can just type

[newbie] strange keyboard behavior

Since installing 7.2 (or around that time when I also got a new Microsoft keyboard) I had trouble with the single quote. I had to hit the keyboard rather hard to get it on the screen. Thinking it was a bad key I dismantled the keyboard to clean the contact pads but it was still the same. I then

[newbie] How to disable Autologin

What is the procedure to turn off (and on again if necessary) the autologin feature that allows a selevted user to automatically boot right through to the KDE screen. I've gone through everything in the DrakConf but can seem to locate it. Nev

Re: [newbie] Mouseman plus

I have a d genuine mouseman plus and I double clicked on the selevtion backed out, restarted the X server, came back in and I have the scroll function. However every time I run the nouse config program it opens with the generic 3 button mouse highlighted. But it continues to work fine. Nev Dale

Re: [newbie] Grub/LILO--why?

Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are migrating over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it overcomes the 1024 cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I went to onstall SuSE over my mandrake partitions. Since it uses lilo and my boot partition was outside

[newbie] problem with update

I recently updated to the latest versions of cups 1.1.4-5.1, modutils 2.3.20-1.1, and tsch 1.09.04-1.1 uding mandrake update and they still appear in the files-to-update window of mandrake update as if I have to do them again. When I update again it erors and says that the rpms are already

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.2 printing

I had the same problem but solved this way: logged on as root opened Soffice SPADMIN Selected Connect, I noticed that was on a different default nd not my printer name. Selevted my printer name that I installed under CUPS. Selected test page in order to save the settings. The test page came out

Re: [newbie] Mouse not Detected on Install

. My Logitech First Mouse+ wasn't detected, and when I tried to select it in DrakConf, it just kept reverting back to the default. Go figure!?! - Original Message - From: "Neville Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 2:12 AM Subjec

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK. Nev Till

Re: [newbie] Acrobat Reader 4 problem

I've had something like this happen at work when you try and read a PDF document created in version 4 with version 3 reader, but your problem appears to be somewhat different. Nev Joan Tur wrote: Hallo! I've a problem with Acrobat Reader 4; it installs fine (rpm), but opening some .pdf pages

[newbie] Netscape Addressbook - Where?

Can anyone tell me which file contains netscape addressbook information under linux? I've found all the other bits and pieces but this one - I'd like to back it up instead of recreating it each time I do a new install etc. Nev

Re: [newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake

Exactly, SuSE had this feature right out of the box and it came in handy for the un-initiated. The catalogue from all six CDs were already on the system following the installation. Nev Dave Lers wrote: On Sat, 27 May 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: --- Neville Cobb [EMAIL PROTECTED

[newbie] DISCUSSION RPMDrake

I would like to see the RPMDrake database already loaded with the programs we can install from the six CD set.

[newbie] DISCUSSION POINTS:

I'd like to see the following . Install - Since a lot of people will be migrating from windows to Mandrake the will most probably want to install linux into the smallest possible partition to evaluate it. In doing it may be worth while looking at installing a streamlined version with only

[newbie] DISCUSSION Trash Can

Any way to default to the trash can for deleting items rather than the way it currently is? Nev

Re: [newbie] Copying text from kedit to netscape mail

using middle mouse button. Alan Neville Cobb wrote: Is there a way to copy text from say Kedit and paste it into Netscape mail. I've tried everything but cannot achieve it, is there a process that I've overlooked? Nev

Re: [newbie] TV Cards

I have a fly video 98 which used the bt 878 chip and I am loast at making it work with mandrake 7.0. I believe bttv is not included with the mandrake distribution and I have to download it and install it. However bttv-0.7.x requires a new i2c stack in the kernel. I must admit I am lost, any

Re: [newbie] more LILO trouble

Hi, a copy of my lilo.conf is attached if that is of any use. Nev Leanne Leith wrote: Some wonderful person told me that I could fix my LILO problem by typing in LILO from the super user prompt. The result was "Syntax error near line 2 in file/etc/lilo.conf" The problem is that the

Re: [newbie] running windows in linux

I've just recently read about another product that is capable of running windows. It is called Win4Lin and costs approx $US90, more info should be at http://www.trelos.com Some vendors are now taking pre-orders. Nev Rich wrote: Hi, I saw a screenshot on the mandrake site that had the linux

[newbie] DrakConf Kpakage Vs RpmDrake

Can anyone tell me what is the diference between RpmDrake and DrakConf Kpackage? Is there an advantage that one has over the other? Nev

Re: [newbie] Permissions to /mnt

I experienced the same problem after installing Mandrake 7.0.2 and it had nothing to do with the fstab settings. The problem was in the actual permissions of the DOS hda1 mount point in the mount directory. The permissions were set to: owner - root rw group - root r I changed the group to user

Re: [newbie] Cd-Rom Problems in mdk7.0

help. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville Cobb Sent: February 17, 2000 3:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] CDROM and Writer Overall I was pretty well impressed with Mandrake 7-0-2, it was one of the first

Re: [newbie] kernel can't detect my ls-120

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have installed linux mandrake 6.0, but it can't recognize my ls-120 drive. The atapi floppy driver has been installed as a module. My ls-120 is in hdc. messages after lilo: ... hdc : Q, ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 17) drive ... /dev/hdc: Device not