Re: [newbie] Scanner 3570c not working

2004-03-29 Thread Steve Kaufman
Scott Mazur wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:53:44 -0500, Steve Kaurfman wrote Trying again. HELP anyone.. HP Scanner 3570c. Harddrake found it on system install cause it is in dev/usb/scanner0 but nothing want to see it. Kooda even put an icon on my desktop during

Re: [newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.

2004-03-15 Thread Steve Kaufman
I don't know??? Maybe LOL :-) Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04 16:46:38 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki. Steve Kaufman wrote: snip but have

Re: [newbie] Netscape Mail

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
Found this on the netscape search engine.

Re: [newbie] Netscape Mail

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
Glad I could be of some help. You have helped me a couple of times and I really appreciate it. Good luck with PEACE for the world. I sure wish Google had the answer for that as well. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 03/14/04

Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and thenmerge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf? Can't you just let 10.0buildLILO

Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:49 am, Steve Kaufman wrote: Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions

[newbie] Making Firefox and Thunderbird play nice together - Twiki.

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
All, I spent a lot of time and frustration trying to get Firefox and Thunderbird to play nice together so I decided to create my first Twiki explaining how I made this work. I hope it was appropriate to do this as it is not directly a Makdrake Linux thing but more of an application thing but

[newbie] Screen shots (printscreen) Utility

2004-03-14 Thread Steve Kaufman
All, I am looking for a utility to do screen captures to the clipboard by using the printScrn key. I would like to be able to paste the screenshots directly to the clipboard so I can immediately paste them into an email for example. It would be great if it had the flexability to only do the

Re: [newbie] Printing Problems HP 5L - Open Office Calc

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Derek Jennings wrote: On Monday 23 Feb 2004 20:52, Weiers Coetser wrote: Hi, I am as newbie as can be. I set up a sizeable spreadsheet with Open Office and neglected to toggle print selected sheet only option. Ended up printing 8 copies of the whole spreadsheet (11 sheets) = approximately 90

Re: [newbie] USB not functioning

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Lee B. wrote: Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 23 February 2004 12:32 am, Lee B. wrote: Switching off apci didn't help. Also switch off APIC. The APIC software is an Intel invention and published specs are still being worked out by Linux developers. Since APIC controls IRQ and

[newbie] Fixing the printers not showing up in Firefox and Thunderbird.

2004-02-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Well I'm going to toot my own horn a little. Being a real NEWBIE I found this solution on my own when even the people on the Mozilla forums didn't have an answer. I feel pretty good about this. There were some posts there that talked about using url 'about:config' in Firefox but that only hung

Re: [newbie] Who tried Thunderbird 0.5?

2004-02-22 Thread Steve Kaufman
Christophe Rhein wrote: One question... Who tried Thunderbird 0.5 with linux? Any problems? Thank you Christophe Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I just finished the

[newbie] date field in thunderbird

2004-02-22 Thread Steve Kaufman
I sent this question to the TB forum but thought I would ask here as well. When I receive an email from another time zone it TB does not convert the time to local? Is there a way to fix this. I don't see any option to do so. Thanks Steve Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?

Re: [newbie] Who tried Thunderbird 0.5?

2004-02-22 Thread Steve Kaufman
Anne Wilson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 23 February 2004 02:34, Christophe Rhein wrote: Are the links in a mail opening properly in Firefox for exemple? How is the junk mail working? Thanks for your help! Christophe ps: is there a filter on this list because

RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. FIXED MAYBE ????

2004-02-21 Thread Steve Kaufman
Configure you machine/logs in MCC and there is absolutly nothing that would indicate a problem. I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI processes running. Don't know where else to look. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: Steve Kaufman Date

RE: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-20 Thread Steve Kaufman
Message--- From: Steve Kaufman Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work Help please, This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull

[newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Kaufman
nothing that would indicate a problem. I also posted a ps -A and someone verified that there were no ACPI processes running. Don't know where else to look. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: Steve Kaufman Date: 02/17/04 15:46:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PC

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Kaufman
Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new things. Now Iall I have to do is figure out how to load and run the RPM. Have to switch back to Linux and try. Steve Linux user number 344404 ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02/19/04 16:11:18 To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Thursday 19 February 2004 05:41 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 21:25, Steve Kaufman wrote: Thanks Derek. I hope I'm always open to learning new things. Now Iall I have to do is figure out how to load and run the RPM. Have to switch back to Linux and try. It's

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:21 pm, Lanman wrote: On February 19, 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Steve; have you looked at the drivers you're using for the NVidia card? Other than that, I'd definitely look at your ram for the problem. Try removing the ram one stick at a time

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. NOT FIXED HELP PLEASE can't survive in LINUX this way

2004-02-19 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Thursday 19 February 2004 04:23 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 19 February 2004 03:44 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Below is my original post I had posted back to the list that it was fixed but it is not and I don't have any idea where to go. I would really like to use Linux but if I

Re: [newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work - SOLVED

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Tuesday 17 February 2004 04:48 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 21:13, Steve Kaufman wrote: I will try that. Thx Anne. Are you an english lady? How's things across the pond? I am - and it's rather cold and wet, but nothing like as cold as NY

Re: [newbie] UPS prog called bulldog?

2004-02-18 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Wednesday 18 February 2004 12:43 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 17 February 2004 11:26 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:54 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:18 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 11 February 2004 09:27 pm,

[newbie] PC locks up solid. Power off buton won't even work

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Kaufman
Help please, This is going to be a real challange. I have installed MD9,2 a couple of weeks ago. Some of the people on this list have been very wonderfull in helping me to overcome some very simple but perplexing problems for a newbie This problem does not happen in windows. I can leave my

[newbie] Errors in a log file

2004-02-17 Thread Steve Kaufman
I am seeing these errors when looking at my logs in MCC. in user log. The errors are valid since the drakfont and 100dpi directories don't exist. Feb 17 16:22:39 localhost xfs: ignoring font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont (unreadable) Feb 17 16:22:39 localhost xfs: ignoring

[newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Kaufman
Hello everyone, I am trying to make my PCTEL winmodem work in MD9.2. I found the following page from google http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html#INSTALLATION it talks about needing the source for LINUX in a directory /usr/src/LINUX. MD default installation which I am using does

Re: [newbie] Installing a linmodem

2004-02-16 Thread Steve Kaufman
On Monday 16 February 2004 01:19 pm, Olivier Esser wrote: Steve Kaufman wrote: Hello everyone, I am trying to make my PCTEL winmodem work in MD9.2. I found the following page from google http://www.peacefulaction.org/sayamindu/pctel.html#INSTALLATION it talks about needing the source

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working - SOLVED

2004-02-06 Thread Steve Kaufman
] Re: [newbie] Printing to print server not working On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 12:01, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Wednesday 04 February 2004 10:21 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI

[newbie] Printing to print server not working

2004-02-04 Thread Steve Kaufman
I am trying to print to my d-link Router/printserver and can't see to get it to work. I am running MD9.2 and using a D-Ling DI-713P the P means that it is a router with a printer port. Under windows I just set up a port and put in the router base address and print to it. No problem. I tried the

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email program that can be used from Linux and WIN 2000

2004-02-03 Thread Steve Kaufman
: On Monday 02 February 2004 05:01 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: Since I am still so new to this linux environment and have not even gotten past the very simplest of things I am still using my win2K system a lot. I would like to be able to read my email from either system especially this list, and be able to see

[newbie] Gnomemeeting How to stop it from automatically starting

2004-02-02 Thread Steve Kaufman
When I did my 9.2 install I have an icon on my desktop for GNOMEMEETING. I clicked on it just to see what it was. Now it starts each time I boot. Could someone please tell me how to stop this from running each time. TIA Steve Linux user number 344404 Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Suggestions for an email program that can be used from Linux and WIN 2000

2004-02-02 Thread Steve Kaufman
Since I am still so new to this linux environment and have not even gotten past the very simplest of things I am still using my win2K system a lot. I would like to be able to read my email from either system especially this list, and be able to see my folders from either system. Does anyone have

[newbie] Kernel rebuild question.

2004-01-30 Thread Steve Kaufman
I am a very newbie to Linux and this whole different world. I installed 9.2 a week or so ago and finally figured out how to get all the updates. I'm using the GUI by the way. The process was successful and now if I check there are no more updates so I think things went OK. Two questions: 1)

Re: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers

2004-01-30 Thread Steve Kaufman
Have you tried just plugging it in and rebooting? I know when I put in a usbmouse that was all i had to do and it worked fine. ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/30/04 14:17:17 To: Mandrake Newbie Subject: [mandrake] [newbie] Camera Card Readers I have an older

Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] Sceensavers in KDE

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Kaufman
How many screensavers should have gotten loaded when all the fixes are applied. I only have one basically and a random selectionand A black screen. Should there have been more. I had gone into a config GUI that asked me for the root password before doing the check for the screensavers but

Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] Message during startup

2004-01-29 Thread Steve Kaufman
/27/04 19:02:31 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] Message during startup colour me 'talking tosh' but my guess is it's to do with stuff like hibernation, bascule On Tuesday 27 Jan 2004 11:35 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: During boot when I hit the esc key to see what is happening

[newbie] Message during startup

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Kaufman
During boot when I hit the esc key to see what is happening I get a message that says SWSUSP - 103 Missing or invalid swap partision location (Resume = Parameter ) Disabled. Everything seems to come up normally and later I see messages that the swap file is put on line so I think all is well

[newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Kaufman
When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click on the Home icon it would open a window that showed the directories in my home directory. Now when I click on it the icon kind of flashes but no window opens. Any ideas on how to fix this would be

Re: [newbie] Home icon on desktop not working

2004-01-27 Thread Steve Kaufman
it was no big thing. I need to keep track of what I play with so I can recover next time. On Tuesday 27 January 2004 07:14 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Tuesday 27 January 2004 05:39 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: When I first got this (9.2) up and running over the weekend and I would double click

Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Hello everyone. Iam just getting into this Linix thing so please forgive the real real newbie questions. Using win 2000. I downloaded the three ISO images and wrote to cd. After creating all three cds I put in the first one to make sure it was readable. It autoran and brought up a menu.

[newbie] reading documentation from CD3 - Correct subject after being dumb.

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Sorry to repost this I origionally used a 'reply to' so I had the email address. Deleted the email but forgot to change the subject. Old subject was Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] unable to ping to/from my windoze box ---Original Message--- From: Steve Kaufman Date: 01/23/04 08:56

[newbie] install question on allocating disk space

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GBEIDE andalso a SCSI 12 GB which hasabout 10 GB free. I read that this install takes about 19 gb and I don't really want to

Re: [mandrake] [newbie] 9.2/Move Confusion - HELP! My first convert!

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
I think he did OK. Here is the listing from one of the ftp sites11/13/2003 04:24PM424 9.2-download.md5sums.asc 11/07/2003 06:43PM683,642,880 Mandrake92-cd1-inst.i586.iso 11/07/2003 08:51PM731,797,504 Mandrake92-cd2-ext.i586.iso 11/07/2003 10:20PM728,948,736

Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
2004 03:01 pm, Steve Kaufman wrote: OK here goes. I have an AMD 2500+ running at 2700+ on an ASUS motherboard Model : A7N8X V2.0. Running win 2000. C drive is 120 gig. EIDE, E: drive is empty 16 GB EIDE and also a SCSI 12 GB which has about 10 GB free. I read that this install takes about 19 gb

Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space

2004-01-23 Thread Steve Kaufman
Thanks will do that. Have removed the reply to. ---Original Message--- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 01/23/04 20:37:35 To: Steve Kaufman Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [mandrake] Re: [newbie] install question on allocating disk space On Saturday 24 January 2004 01:09, you