Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the

Re: [newbie] Connecting a video camera

2005-04-05 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 02 Apr 2005 14:52, Auke Jan Kroon wrote: Hi, I installed Mandrake 10.0 on my aunt's computer (can be upgraded to 10.1 if necessary) and she bought a Sharp VL-Z1S video camera with DV/IEEE1394/Firewire output. I don't have a video camera, so my knowledge about this is close to

Re: [newbie] email problems

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 24 Feb 2005 08:32, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: By the way. What file precisely does kmail/konqueror say it cannot find? derek /var/temp/kdecache-rosemary\krun\0.427.0 The print is tiny in the box that comes up - but I think that's it. Rosemary I had this problem when

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 12 Feb 2005 05:13, John Rye wrote: Hi all, Having, (finally), obtained a 10.1 Download DVD I have made what can only be described as an interesting discovery There are at least 1900 files MISSING from the .iso image. Amongst several others:

Re: [newbie] Create device at boot SOLVED

2004-12-11 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 23:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Thanks for the responses guys. However I have stumbled across the answer to my problem. In /etc/rc.d/rc.local mknod -m 666 /dev

[newbie] Create device at boot

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Watson
I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal creates the device and that it works. mknod -m 666 /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 Now I would like the device to be created

Re: [newbie] Create device at boot

2004-12-10 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 10 Dec 2004 21:33, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Friday 10 December 2004 09:53 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I need a device /dev/raw1394 to access my firewire video camera, but it does not exist After some research I have found that issuing the following command in a root terminal

[newbie] File tree organisation

2004-12-04 Thread Peter Watson
There was a post recently asking for information about the file tree structure. I've just stumbled across the 10.1 documentation on the mirrors and chapter 7 gives a good description of the structure for mandrakelinux Hope that helps someone. -- Pete ArdnamurchanScotland

[newbie] Desktop Icons - CD-RW and DVD-ROM

2004-12-04 Thread Peter Watson
I have two icons on my desktop for CD-RW (/dev/hdc) and DVD-ROM (/dev/hdd). How can I get rid of them. If I right click on them there is no delete option. I'm trying to get back to the good old days when I mounted and unmounted removeable devices when I wanted to instead of having magicdev or

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 22:33, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied

Re: [newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 02 Dec 2004 10:22, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 01 Dec 2004 21:27, Peter Watson wrote: Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied

[newbie] xscreensaver

2004-12-02 Thread Peter Watson
My screensavers in KDE don't work! All the screensaver executables are there in /usr/X116R/lib/xscreensaver/ and if I click on one it runs fine in a window. However when a screensaver is supposed to start by itself I just get a blank screen. If I run xscreensaver-demo from a terminal it tells

[newbie] mjpegtools dependencies

2004-12-01 Thread Peter Watson
Using 10.1 OE I need mjpegtools to use kino. Its not on my cd's but I found mjpegtools-1.6.2-7mdk.i586.rpm on the mandrake 10.1 main mirrors, however I can't urpmi this due to unsatisfied libmplex2-1.6.so.0. I also found mjpegtools-1.6.2-8mdk.i586.rpm on rpm.pbone, but I get the same

Re: [newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE

2004-11-22 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 22 Nov 2004 12:12, Dennis Myers wrote: On Sunday 21 November 2004 05:43 pm, Peter Watson wrote: I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress

[newbie] Problem with kino and /raw/dev1394 UPDATE

2004-11-21 Thread Peter Watson
I recently posted a question about a problem using kino in capture mode because I do not have a /dev/raw1394, as I had no replies I have been fiddling about and made some progress. Something I have done is causing my box to use devfs instead of udev, I'm not sure what. However using devfs

[newbie] Problem with kino and /dev/raw1394

2004-11-19 Thread Peter Watson
I'm trying to set up kino using 10.1 OE and kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk but it won't go into capture mode and shows error message WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! Under /dev there is no device

[newbie] fsck on boot

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Watson
Where do I set how often the HD's get fsck'd on boot. TIA -- Pete Ardnamurchan Scotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50% of the time, ie half of the time I am unable to connect to the internet with dialup and half I am not. I have disabled the

Re: [newbie] Switching between LAN and dialup

2004-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 17 Nov 2004 16:14, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2004 13:12, Peter Watson wrote: For ages I have used the excellent tip on Derek Jennings site for switching between LAN and dialup with no problems. However with 10.1 I find that it only works about 50

Re: [newbie] Inet6 address

2004-10-16 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 16 Oct 2004 09:27, Ronald Ip wrote: For more information, check out the IPv6 HOWTO to further understand how IPv6 works. Ronald. Will do Many Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Inet6 address

2004-10-12 Thread Peter Watson
The NIC in my MDK 10 box has an IP address of 10.0.0.1 which I set myself in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. However ifconfig shows that eth0 also has an inet6 address of fe80::205:5dff:fe74:e3d3/64. lo also has an inet6 address of ::1/128. None of the other boxes on my lan, Win 98,

RE: [newbie] Problem with detectingmodem, Scanmodem

2004-10-07 Thread Peter Watson
Mandrake 9.1 cannot detect my modem intel(r) 536EP V.92 I downloaded ScanModem, to detect what modem I have. After unpacking and addint +x permition when run from console ./ScanModem there is a massage: WARNING: lscpi not found - exiting Please install the package: pciutils How to install

Re: [newbie] Conversion from text to a spreadsheet format

2004-09-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 18 Sep 2004 10:57, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I have got dozens of text files (which are the output of a simulation program) containing tables of numbers. I would like to convert them into a format readable by a spreadsheet program (OpenOffice Calc, for instance), so that

Re: [newbie] difficulty reconfiguring Kwallet under mdk 10.0

2004-06-23 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 23 Jun 2004 03:41, g2 wrote: I am running Mandrake 10.0 Official. Somehow I accidentally set a password for the Kwallet, despite really not needing one. Now each time I start up kmail, the mail program I use regularly, I have to enter in the kwalltet password. I get a dialog box

Re: [newbie] AVI - MPG (VCDs)

2004-02-23 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 23 Feb 2004 2:44 pm, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Hi guys, I have some video files in AVI format that I would like to convert to VCDs -- what *free* software is available for Mandrake to do this ?? Ta, Jamie Transcode and VCDImager HTH Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your

[newbie] missing /boot/boot.b

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Watson
I am trying to make a bootable CD using mindi. However it complains that I have no /boot/boot.b and offers to use /boot/boot.0300 instead. I am sure that I used to have a file called /boot/boot.b and a line in /etc/lilo.conf install=/boot/boot.b but this has gone also. I do have the

[newbie] Kmail word wrap

2004-02-05 Thread Peter Watson
I've got this problem with Kmail. Word wrap is set at col 75 and in the composer window this works fine. But when I see my messages after they are delivered they are not wrapped at all. Anyone got ant ideas? Thanks Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] avi to svcd programs?

2004-01-29 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 29 Jan 2004 5:53 am, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:31:48 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found mencvcd, just trying it now with a DVD. A couple fits starts, but we'll see what the results give. Following up on my own post (/slap): Well, I

Re: [newbie] midi files, Kmid and Sound Blaster Live (solved)

2004-01-10 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 10 Jan 2004 5:42 pm, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 13:50, Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 08 January 2004 22:33, Josenildo Marques wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 17:39, Josenildo Marques wrote: Ok, I did it ! Now I can play .midi and .kar files in Kmid. I just

Re: [newbie] editing Mpeg home video

2003-12-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 27 Dec 2003 7:40 am, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Hi About a year or so ago I asked about a program that would allow me to split mpeg home videos into smaller sections. However a lot of water under the bridge since then and I'm in a new install of 9.2 for a while now and find

Re: [newbie] XP/Linux modem

2003-11-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 27 Nov 2003 3:22 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Wednesday 26 November 2003 7:09 pm, Thomas Ewald wrote: Mine does. Or at least Intel says it will. It's got the Intel 586EP chip set. I put a message on here, asking about getting mgetty to work, but haven't heard from anyone yet. But

Re: [newbie] Superuser

2003-11-22 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 22 Nov 2003 4:15 pm, Cenora wrote: Hello, I have just installed MDK9.2. How do I run a terminal under superuser mode, or the file manager under this mode? They just don appear on the menu. Thanks Thiago I don't know if this is the best solution, but I use ALT F2 then enter

Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question

2003-10-19 Thread Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 18 Oct 2003 19:55, dfox wrote: Somebody scribbled about Re: [newbie] DVD Ripping Question home movies, I am helpless. But you can make vcds with those above programs and vcdimager. OK I'll bite... I've only done a few dvd rips to

Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Thread Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted for the proposal with a huge majority. But just to calm you down a bit : Those of you who live in democratic and free countries may think that it's a real

Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Thread Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 12:09, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 11:53 am, Peter Watson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 SNIPOn Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 21:54, Kaj Haulrich wrote: As expected, the EP voted

Re: [OT}Re: [newbie] European Parliament votes for software patents.

2003-09-25 Thread Peter Watson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 25 Sep 2003 15:14, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Thursday 25 September 2003 12:04 pm, Peter Watson wrote: snip I'll stand if you will promise to vote for me, but realistically independents have zilch chance of being elected, unless

Re: [newbie] firewall question

2003-07-08 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 08 Jul 2003 00:41, Chris wrote: I've setup firestarter and when I ran the test at www.grc.com all my ports show closed except for 21, 23, and 80. I would think that these should be at least closed. Anyone using firestarter know of how to do this? Thanks Chris I'm running

[newbie] Pre-installed LM9.1

2003-06-19 Thread Peter Watson
Although its not yet on their website some of you in the UK may be interested to know that Evesham are advertising a PC with Mandrake Linux 9.1 preinstalled in this months PC Pro mag Regards Pete ArdnamurchanScotland Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] kernel version

2003-04-06 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 18:43, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday April 5 2003 08:11 am, pete wrote: Before I move to 9.1 there is something I have never understood on 9.0 and previous releases, I would be grateful for an explanation. I have installed :- kernel-source 2.4.19-16mdk

Re: [newbie] kernel version

2003-04-06 Thread Peter Watson
On Sunday 06 Apr 2003 16:19, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday April 6 2003 08:29 am, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 18:43, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Saturday April 5 2003 08:11 am, pete wrote: Before I move to 9.1 there is something I have never understood on 9.0 and previous

Re: [newbie] Burning a bootable cd

2003-04-02 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 18:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 6:47 pm, Miark wrote: This was the direction of my question. I can't think of a more difficult way to burn Knoppix than jumping through these hoops. I'd just download the ISO (which I'm doing now, seeing as 3.2 is

[newbie] CD-R Information

2003-03-19 Thread Peter Watson
There was a recent thread which talked about identifying the manufacturer of CD-R'S using ATIP information. I have since come across the following, I've no idea how true it is but it makes interesting reading. == Charles Palmer, from

Re: [newbie] CD-R Information

2003-03-19 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 19 Mar 2003 14:08, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday March 19 2003 05:19 am, Peter Watson wrote: There was a recent thread which talked about identifying the manufacturer of CD-R'S using ATIP information. I have since come across the following, I've no idea how true

Re: [newbie] Audigy drivers

2003-02-27 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 27 Feb 2003 20:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 04 Feb 2003 12:12 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Wrong search method, use rpm -ql emu10k1-tools It will give you a listing of a whole slew of entries. If you want to do it by hand you can edit /etc/emu10k1 There are

[newbie] OT Good news on the modem front

2003-02-20 Thread Peter Watson
Thought I'd share some good news. For months I've been struggling with a winmodem, and whilst it does work its a real PITA to get it started. Anyway I finally succumbed and bought a serial modem from ebuyer.com it cost GB pounds 14.56 or GB pounds 19.45 including VAT and carriage and it

Re: [newbie] No CDROM read again

2003-02-19 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 03:38, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 18 February 2003 06:58 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: Here is my fstab : /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 snip most of it answering my own post. I should have known better, It was a permissions

[newbie] Postfix and Kmail

2003-02-19 Thread Peter Watson
My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from /var/spool/mail/username, this is ok except that when I try to get mail I receive a message could not lock /var/spool/mail/username. If I

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Kmail

2003-02-19 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 15:34, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 2:38 pm, Peter Watson wrote: My local mail gets put in /var/spool/mail/username. However I would like to read it in Kmail and so I have set up an incoming account which reads from /var/spool/mail/username

Re: [newbie] Postfix and Kmail

2003-02-19 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 19 Feb 2003 22:00, Derek Jennings wrote: SNIP Derek Thanks for the reply (and Tod and Greg). I created a ~/.procmailrc file similar to yours but without spamassassin and am now using the procmail lockfile I defined in my home directory, so this has solved my problem.

Re: [newbie] postfix aliases

2003-02-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 17 Feb 2003 23:18, Greg Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 February 2003 04:27 pm, Peter Watson wrote: Mail to root is currently sent to /var/spool/mail/postfix. I want to change this to another user so I have edited the line root

[newbie] postfix aliases

2003-02-17 Thread Peter Watson
Mail to root is currently sent to /var/spool/mail/postfix. I want to change this to another user so I have edited the line root: . . postfix in /etc/postfix/aliases to root: . . newuser The docs say execute the command newaliases to update the aliases db. However here

Re: [newbie] Javascript and browsers

2003-01-30 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 12:11, Anne Wilson wrote: I'm still having a lot of problems with javascript in browsers - all browsers, Moz, NSCP7, Galleon, Konq. In each case I have javascript enabled for browsing (not mail ng in Moz). Yet javascript doesn't seem to work in any except Konq. Even

Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394

2003-01-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 13:16, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all Has anyone get firewire to work on mdk9.0 I have look at and read www.linux1394.org and done what it says to do but still not work anyone help sorry for the spelling have a problem and can not spell what it is Cheers Ben I

Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394

2003-01-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 14:52, Peter Watson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 13:16, Benjamin Jeeves wrote: Hi all Has anyone get firewire to work on mdk9.0 I have look at and read www.linux1394.org and done what it says to do but still not work anyone help sorry for the spelling

Re: [newbie] Firewire e.g. 1394

2003-01-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 15:32, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2003 2:52 pm, Peter Watson wrote: To get it working I had to add raw1394 video1394 to my /etc/modules Pete - do your front panel connectors work? Aux in and midi? Anne I don't have any front panel connectors

Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons

2003-01-16 Thread Peter Watson
snip If a CEO cares about his company and has to make decisions about redundancies he is already hurting - believe me, I know. To have an outsider who does not know the problems nor have to deal with them telling him how to deal with the situation is at best unhelpful - and I can guarantee

Re: [newbie] install modem

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 14:04, Gil Katz wrote: Hi i got new modem rockwell HSF i downloaded the driver from the site and install it after wards i run the configuration program and in the end i got a message that the modem is ok and i can access it via /dev/ttySHSF0 but when i try to

Re: [newbie] Recognition of Todd Lyons

2003-01-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 15 Jan 2003 16:51, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: I want to make an official appeal to the Mandrake management to keep Todd Lyons securely in the company, in the recent light of current events regarding the Chapter 11. Todd Lyons has been an incredible asset to the Expert list, helping

Re: [newbie] userdrake mcc run amok

2003-01-14 Thread Peter Watson
snip On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 22:04, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 14 Jan 2003 5:06 pm, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi Anne, I have considered the idea. However, a cat on these two files show that they are similar to /etc/passwd, they both belong to root and are both read-only for all others,

Re: [newbie] getpix update

2003-01-09 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 13:06, Lee wrote: On Thursday 09 January 2003 06:30 am, you wrote: On Thursday 09 Jan 2003 5:38 am, Todd Slater wrote: I should keep a list of people (if any?) who use this so I won't trouble the list at large with this. You can change the default extension

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Raising More Capital

2002-12-23 Thread Peter Watson
When mandrake sacked Civileme I wrote to Jaques le Maroir to tell him I was disappointed, as C. had been an enormous help to me and many others. In reply I got a rather aggressive email telling me if I knew a better way to run the company let him know. I,m the first to admit that I don;t know

Re: [newbie] Getting new hardware recognised.

2002-12-21 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 21 Dec 2002 09:28, Anne Wilson wrote: Should it be necessary to reboot to get new hardware recognised? In specific terms, in my struggle with usb devices, I have not yet got my camera recognised. If I try different usb connections, will I need a reboot? I have been assuming that

Re: [newbie] DV Cameras for tthe holidays

2002-12-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 17 Dec 2002 16:35, Paul Rodriguez wrote: Hi, I'm sorry if this has been covered, I just resubscribed. My dad recently switched to Linux, and he's been hinting to EVERYBODY that he wants a DV camera for Christmas. If he gets one, will he have trouble using it with his box? I think

Re: [newbie] Unsupported Camera

2002-12-11 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 14:11, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis Sue wrote: I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about it as well. Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot

Re: [newbie] OT avi to mpeg?

2002-11-26 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 26 Nov 2002 06:07, Ibly Piblo wrote: Sorry if this is OT. Is there an avi to mpeg converter for linux that is easy? Already tried a few which were useless, mjpegtools proved to be trash, as it just spit out useless errors instead of actually converting the file. lav2wav

Re: [newbie] userdrake

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 23:14, Pilagá wrote: Hola a todos. I'm trying to add a new user with userdrake (su), but I can't go beyond this: warning: userdrake: the file password is busy (/etc/ptmp present). Can't lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist. Any idea?

Re: [newbie] More package installation woes

2002-11-22 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 10:25, Keith Powell wrote: I have bought the Power Pack edition of Mandrake9.0. Installation went very well; then the problem started. I have been trying to install extra packages from the CDs. I can install from the Installation Disks, the International Disk, and the

Re: [newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-17 Thread Peter Watson
On Sunday 17 Nov 2002 10:22, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-17 at 22:02, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 16 November 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote: What about removing the modem, rebooting, putting the modem back in, rebooting and seeing if the modem is found again? Just a thought,

[newbie] /dev/tts/2

2002-11-16 Thread Peter Watson
Hi folks I've broken my modem whilst exploring linuxconf.. Previously the modem was /dev/ttyS2 which was a symlink to /dev/tts/2. Now /dev/tts/2 has disappeared completely and /dev/ttyS2 is showing as unknown, presumably because its not pointing at anything. I've tried rebooting, but no

Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 03:48, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 12:32, Peter Watson wrote: On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 23:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:19, Peter Watson wrote: Each time I try to use userdrake I receive message box:- cannot lock usr lib

Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems

2002-11-15 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 15 Nov 2002 12:15, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 22:55, Peter Watson wrote: What happens if you use KUSER (sorry, kuser) to check/add/delete/modify accounts -? Do you get the same errors? No... kuser works fine! I guess that is the solution to my problem

[newbie] Checkinstall

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Watson
With some valuable assistance from this list I succeeded in compiling my first package from a tarball. Feeling smug I decided to try another using checkinstall. I get to the stage where checkinstall says The package will be built according to these values and lists 10 values, I press enter to

Re: [newbie] Userdrake problems

2002-11-14 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 14 Nov 2002 23:24, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 04:19, Peter Watson wrote: Each time I try to use userdrake I receive message box:- cannot lock usr lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist Both these files exist and are exact copies of /etc/passwd and /etc

Re: [newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off

2002-11-04 Thread Peter Watson
On Monday 04 Nov 2002 01:19, Angus Auld wrote: Peter Watson wrote: I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them

[newbie] Monitor standby, suspend and power off

2002-11-03 Thread Peter Watson
I am using KDE 3.0 on LM 9.0. The monitor power saving features (standby, suspend and power off ) were working fine except that they interfered with ripping a DVD which went on for a long period and so I disabled them from ConfigureKDEPower ControlEnergy. After succesfully ripping the DVD I

Re: [newbie] Initialize Modem

2002-10-11 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 11 Oct 2002 2:47 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 10 October 2002 06:15 am, Peter Watson wrote: I've got an Intel 536ep linmodem, using the drivers package from Intel's site makes it work fine except for one inconvenience. Each time I reboot the system I have to launch

[newbie] Initialize Modem

2002-10-10 Thread Peter Watson
I've got an Intel 536ep linmodem, using the drivers package from Intel's site makes it work fine except for one inconvenience. Each time I reboot the system I have to launch minicom before I can use KPPP to dial up my ISP. If I don't run minicom first the whole system locks solid and I have

[newbie] gcc 2.96 with gcc3.2

2002-10-08 Thread Peter Watson
I have a driver package for my intel 536EP modem which contains a cor binary compiled with gcc2.96. I tried to install gcc2.96 to compile this package but received the following error message:- file /etc/colorgccrc from install of gcc2.96-colorgcc-2.96-0.80mdk conflicts with file from

Re: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition

2002-09-19 Thread Peter Watson
- Original Message - From: Scott Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 1:13 AM Subject: [newbie] Mounting my NTFS partition snip I have Windows XP on the first hard drive (hda) that came with the computer. How do (can?) I mount that drive

[newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2002-08-22 Thread Peter Watson
Many thanks to everyone who replied to my question about swap file sizes. Now I have another concern. I have an 80GB hard drive with one partition containing windows XP and formatted NTFS. I plan to use Partitionmagic 7.0 to shrink this partition to 40GB thus leaving me 40GB to install LM 8.2.

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

2002-08-02 Thread Peter Watson
- Original Message - From: frankie [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 02, 2002 6:29 AM Subject: RE: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0 yeah, I'd join for the same reason... :-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Message from MandrakeSoft CEO.

2002-07-31 Thread Peter Watson
- Original Message - From: Gael Duval [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Message from MandrakeSoft CEO. SNIP Hi Mandrakians - I'm sending this message regarding yesterday's message about Civilme. This message is from Jacques

Re: Fwd: [newbie] Problem with LM 9.0

2002-07-30 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 30 July 2002 17:27 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 3:07 am, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On Tuesday 30 Jul 2002 5:13 am, civileme wrote: Well, the problem is bugs in the current revision and it is up to Mandrakesoft to fix them. My involvement with the fixing process

Re: [newbie] Sony laptop CD visibility for MD8.1 install

2002-03-23 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 23 March 2002 12:17 pm, Wally wrote: Want to install Mandrake 8.1 on a Sony Vaio 505FX, but having trouble with the MD installer seeing the CD-ROM drive... The laptop's CD drive connects via a PCMCIA card. Although the Mandrake CD boots okay, the install then fails to see the

Re: [newbie] Any First Go success stories ?

2002-03-13 Thread Peter Watson
John I've followed this thread for a while and think I may be what you are looking for. I'm 58 yrs old and have a PII 266 with 64kb. Last year i bought mandrake 8.0 power pack, i stuck it in the cd and eveything went fine. I have KDE, Internet connection, web browsing, Star office, xmms,

Re: [newbie] Shame we live in diff countries and all

2002-03-12 Thread Peter Watson
Hi, from Ardnamurchan, the most westerly point on the UK mainland (probably the wettest as well) Regards Pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kde menu

2002-03-12 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 21:15 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: ..does anybody know if that tool for editing the k menu you open in K --- configure panel --- menu editor is updated upon startup? i installed a program that added links in my menu i don need, and that app doesn show them.. do i have

Re: [newbie] 'ls' doesn't sort the way it used to?

2002-03-05 Thread Peter Watson
On Tuesday 05 March 2002 18:01 pm, you wrote: On Monday 04 March 2002 09:49 pm, you wrote: Why not try an alias in your bashrc file, so that ls does it YOUR way? That's a fair question I suppose First, this is a multiuser operating system and I want to fix the problem where it exists,

Re: [newbie] What gives?

2002-01-25 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 25 January 2002 03:51 am, you wrote: Hi All, I used urpmi to update, then left it for a few hours. What is the smiley face bouncing around my kde desktop? its AMOR - amusing misuse of resources - if you right click on it you can quit. It usually lives in K Amusement

Re: [newbie] The problem with Linux

2001-11-25 Thread Peter Watson
RPM's may not be perfect, but when you install a new app on winders the chance is it will overwrite an existing DLL and screw something else. You pays your money (or not in the case of Linux) and takes your choice. -- Regards Pete On Sunday 25 November 2001 16:34 pm, NDPTAL85 wrote: Just

[newbie] Cheap CD's

2001-11-22 Thread Peter Watson
Anyone in the UK with a dial up connection or without a CD burner might find this site useful www.letsbuylinux.co.uk They sell cheap Mandrake CD's (and most other distros) -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Java Konqueror

2001-11-16 Thread Peter Watson
On Friday 16 November 2001 10:39 am, Jason Pearce wrote: Hi list , I am having some trouble getting java applets to work in konqueror. I have set the path in .bashrc export PATH=$PATH:'/opt/IBMJava2-13/jre/bin' and also set the path in konqueror. before i set the path in .bashrc I was

Re: [newbie] Windows XP: EXtra Proprietary

2001-11-01 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 01 November 2001 14:06 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 1 Nov 2001 15:39:32 +1100 Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Oct 2001 13:40:39 -0500, Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do not understand the huecry, especially from linux users,

[newbie] GPG won't sign Kmail messages

2001-10-22 Thread Peter Watson
I got GnuPG 1.0.4 and Kmail 2.1.1 GPG will encrypt messages from kmail fine, but if I try to sign a message I get asked for my passphrase and then nothing happens. Anybody else seen this? -- Regards pete Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] high CPU on kpam-ideld

2001-10-20 Thread Peter Watson
On Saturday 20 October 2001 22:27 pm, Michael Dannhorn wrote: Hi, In 'top' I see a high CPU-usage of 'kapm-idled' Output of 'top': PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 4 root 18 0 00 0 SW 13,9 0,0 2:19 kapm-idled It tooks up to

Re: [newbie] Worst factual review of linux ever

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Watson
You guys might all think that the article was a joke, and I must admit that I can't get too excited about it. B_U_T the views expressed by some of the respondents were enough to make your blood run cold. It seems that a large proportion of them would make us live in a totalitarian state,

Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think that they're so 133+ that they're invulnerable. /snip. Excuse the ignorance, but what's 133+ ? Regards -- petew Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] Linux and Security on NT domain

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 18 October 2001 13:18 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2001 11:51:53 +0100, Peter Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 October 2001 16:59 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: snip where sysadmins who were fooled into paying $$$ for an MCSE think

Re: [newbie] Folder Icon Color in KDE2 Konqueror

2001-10-18 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 18 October 2001 14:18 pm, Bryan S. Tyson wrote: Thanks Peter, this is useful information. My followup question is, can the theme be edited if you only want to change one thing (in my case, the folder icon color)? ** I'm no expert here, but

[newbie] Login prompt

2001-09-27 Thread Peter Watson
I had a problem with settings in X and could only see a blank screen when KDE started at boot-time. I managed to fix this with the Xfree86config tool, but I decided it would be easier to boot to a cosole login prompt and so I changed my default run level to 3 in /etc/inittab. This works

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