[newbie] M9 Openoffice and Perl

2002-11-23 Thread PBone
Today on my standard M9 install for no good reason I can think openoffice suddenly stopped working with this error (it had been working OK for about a month) no element found at line 1, column 0, byte 0 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185 This

Re: [newbie] PPPoE and Modem in tandem

2002-11-20 Thread PBone
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:50 am, Peter Spotts wrote: Anne, I share your pain. I was running MDK8.1 with ASDL as my default on a Compaq laptop. But I take my show on the road quite a bit and needed to use the dialer. Problem was, while the dialer would connect, the browser, email program or

[newbie] Running kppp as root- is it a problem?

2002-11-20 Thread PBone
I used to run kppp as a user to access my dial-up modem without any problems. After installing a LAN card I found that I when I ran kppp as user the connection would be made but the browser and email would not work. Mandrake control centre insisted that I was not connected to the internet. I

Re: [newbie] lm_sensors GUI

2002-11-10 Thread PBone
On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 01:48 am, Pilagá wrote: Is there any app to monitor lm_sensors from inside KDE 3.0.3? Gracias. ksensors will do the job if you want a KDE app (it can pop up the values on the KDE panel system tray) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Fwd: kio_thumbnail

2002-11-08 Thread PBone
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: kio_thumbnail Date: 07 Nov 2002 14:27:52 -0600 From: John Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I saw a posting you made to a mailing list detailing a problem you had with kio_thumbnail hogging all system resources. Turns out I had

[newbie] kio_thumbnail hogging system resources

2002-11-04 Thread PBone
Several times now while runnig KDE on M9 I have noticed that my computer becomes very unresponsive and the hard drive becomes very active. I think it mainly happens when I am on the net (I use mozilla). When (after a long time) I have been able to do a ps aux I find a process kio_thumbnail

Re: [newbie] Mplayer install

2002-10-12 Thread PBone
On Sunday 13 October 2002 3:43 am, Dennis Myers wrote: I tried this back in 8.0 and ran afoul of all the cotton picken dependencies, so thought I would try it again in 9.0 and guess what, dependency after dependecy. I tried the PLF rpms and I will spend all afternoon hunting down and

[newbie] try again: Kernel problem in 8.2

2002-03-27 Thread PBone
Like others I have a problem with the 8.2 kernel. My problem is that whenever I access the internet the computer either crashes hard or spontaneously reboots. I access my ISP fine and the page starts loading and then crash. My system logs say nothing except restart. It must be a kernel

Re: [newbie] Wine under 8.1...Anybody?

2001-12-06 Thread PBone
I never had any success with the stock mdk wine rpms. I did have success with the transgaming wine x packages. You have to pay for the rpms (source is free) but its pretty cheap. Most importantly for me it runs Champinship Manager 01/02 flawlessly :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from