[newbie] deleted partition HELP!

2002-01-04 Thread Vic Parsons
Sorry for the outside writing, I need to restore my partition table, as it has been erased accidentally. I have important data on the /home partition that I cannot lose. Would anyone know of a good restoring app that is not too hard for me to use? I need something fairly easy, or at least have

[newbie] device /usr busy? SAY WHAT?

2001-06-12 Thread Chubby Vic
Hey group I just got some weird errors when I went to either shut down or reboot the server. It said something like /usr was busy and it retried to umount again approx 3 or 4 times, has anyone else had this error and know how to correct it so on bootup it does not have to do a fsck of the usr ?

Re: [newbie] device /usr busy? SAY WHAT?

2001-06-12 Thread Chubby Vic
to boot to, I use VMWare in kernel 2.4.5. This made it compile it's own kernel modules, and I haven't seen that problem since. Are you running VMWare? And on a ResierFS partition, as I am? - Original Message - From: Chubby Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-11 Thread Chubby Vic
I wonder if I could crack out the code? On Monday 11 June 2001 08:03 am, so spoke civileme: On Monday 11 June 2001 02:21, OOzy Pal wrote: Ok now after I got my motherboard, I am trying to make linux detect the built-in Promise Fasttrack card in my motherboard MSI K7T Turbo-R. I don't want

Re: [newbie] More USB stuff

2001-06-09 Thread Chubby Vic
Vic wrote: Hi again Is there a way to test my USB port other than a mouse? I was trying to get it to recognise a USB mouse but no go. Anyone have a good idea of a USB-driven device I could connect up just to see how well it works? What other USB devices do you have available?

[newbie] USb mice?

2001-06-07 Thread Chubby Vic
I have a logitech wheel mouse that works good as the PS 2 mode, but it has a USB plug on it originally, I have a usb to PS2 adaptor, so is this mosue really a real USB mouse? m-bd58 is the model number I think. I tried to get mdk 8 to turn it on, maybe my motherboard connector is puked up or

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0

2001-05-31 Thread Chubby Vic
Perdona mi, no habla Espanol. On Thursday 31 May 2001 07:32 am, so spoke Roma Vinas: Hola, Estoy interesado en comprar el nuevo Linux Mandrake 8.0, y me gustaria saber si todo el paquete esta disponible completamente en espanol. Gracias.

Re: [newbie] Another sound problem...Fixed!!

2001-05-24 Thread Chubby Vic
I sure as heck am not going back to Winblows ever. On Wednesday 23 May 2001 08:32 pm, so spoke Mick: . Repeat after me, we are not going back to Windows, we are not going back to Windows! Mick

[newbie] got mandrake 8, scanner????

2001-05-24 Thread Chubby Vic
I have Mandrake 8.0 I'm thinking about instaling a USB scanner, USB is on my motherboard using AMD K6, with that config, and please ask if need more info, who had the best luck with what scanner I have not buy the scanner yet, just wondering what brand works best. Thanks

Re: [newbie] Computer Freezes under Linux 7.2 WindowsME

2001-05-20 Thread Chubby Vic
Hey that program does not compile, all I got was: [root@kittypuss memtest86-2.5]# make as86 -a -0 -o setup.o setup.s make: as86: Command not found make: *** [setup.o] Error 127 What good is it??? On Sunday 20 May 2001 02:06 pm, so spoke Franki: I don't think the PC100 or PC133 thing is the

Re: [newbie] very slowly

2001-05-17 Thread Chubby Vic
Dang, they must be a bunch of mean old buttfaces who don't want to help anyone, why did they do that? On Thursday 17 May 2001 11:11 am, so spoke Irv Mullins: I had the same problem, KDE was so slow that I couldn't get any work done. When I posted this to the KDE list, all I got was flames, but

[newbie] Sick of doing file associations all the time

2001-05-15 Thread Chubby Vic
I'm sick and tired of having to keep setting the file associations, what can I do to make them STAY instead of having to keep telling stupid kde to use xmms to play mp3's?

[newbie] Forgot wheel mouse thing

2001-05-15 Thread Chubby Vic
Hi I got a new Logitech optical 3 button mouse, and it worked without config, except the wheel. How does one get the wheel function activated? Thanks

[newbie] eroaster not rpm rebuild just crash worthless

2001-05-12 Thread Chubby Vic
## [root@kittypuss /root]# rpm -ivh eroaster-2.0-1.8.4mdk.i586.rpm eroaster ## [root@kittypuss /root]# eroaster ECLiPt Roaster Version 2.0 Beta 8 (c) 1998-2000 by

[newbie] can't compile xcdroast

2001-05-12 Thread Chubby Vic
Help ll `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config --cflags` -DPRE_PREFIX=\/usr\ -DPRE_LIBDIR=\/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98\ -c xtools.c gcc -Wall `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config --cflags` -DPRE_PREFIX=\/usr\ -DPRE_LIBDIR=\/usr/lib/xcdroast-0.98\ -c menus.c gcc -Wall `gtk-config --cflags` `imlib-config

Re: [newbie] Hello

2001-05-11 Thread Chubby Vic
Well 8 is good, but not quite polished off yet. 7.2 has its little boogers in it too, but is not bad. I installed 8.0 and so far its pretty good. If you really need it quick you may wish to go get 7.2 in the box. On Thursday 10 May 2001 10:00 pm, so spoke Michelle Knight: HI, I've been

[newbie] useless shockwave

2001-05-11 Thread Chubby Vic
how come shockwave don't work/

[newbie] midi composers??

2001-05-11 Thread Chubby Vic
Hey ho any stable releases of midi composers out there?

[newbie] Apache lies

2001-05-09 Thread Chubby Vic
http://kittypuss.org/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl This file exists. Apache says: 404 Not FoundNot Found The requested URL /cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl was not found on this server. Apache-AdvancedExtranetServer/1.3.19 Server at kittypuss.org Port 80

[newbie] VERY VERY VERY UPSET WHY M E?????????

2001-04-30 Thread Chubby Vic
I have had it I don't udnerstand why SoundStudio is such a broken piece of trash. Who the heck wrote it and how DRUNK were they when theyu wrote it?? I have smashed my keyboard 3 times, screamed cried, trashed the room, I'm sorry but I'M UPSET!! I do not expect anyone to understand

Re: [newbie] Takes 7000000000000000000000 years to install windows fonts

2001-04-25 Thread Chubby Vic
on the list lately, I work nights and buttloads of overtime, not much time for Linux lists without the boogerbutt to mess it all up for me hehe. Thanks for the info I will give it a shot. Vic On Wednesday 25 April 2001 06:16 am, so spoke Mark Weaver: Vic, You may have to re-hire boogerbutt

[newbie] Configuring talk crashed whole machine

2001-04-24 Thread Chubby Vic
No not the little daemon, the ktalk thingy in your kde control thing, when I tried to do something so I could get a message while online, the dang thing froze just like winblows, this is bad. I hope no one has removed the protected memory from Linux, this will make it like windows and allow it

[newbie] SoundStudio broken won't save at all

2001-04-24 Thread Chubby Vic
Does anyone have trouble with SoundStudio not saving what the heck you just made so you have to go into /tmp and type sox -t raw -r 44100 -c2 -w -s SoundStudio.tmp0424182843. 01.main -r 44100 -t wav -c2 Filename.wav for example to convert the raw soundstudio file into a readable wav fiole?

[newbie] HELP CD burning broken

2001-04-23 Thread Chubby Vic
Require rectify this situation, current results not acceptable. Cd Plextor burner was moved from hdd to hdc. All attempts to burn a cd from an iso image result in: Cdrecord 1.9 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '1,0,0' scsibus: 1

[newbie] Takes 7000000000000000000000 years to install windows fonts

2001-04-23 Thread Chubby Vic
I don't know whats wrong with Mandrake 8 font installer, I try to install the 2 files comic.ttf and comicbd.ttf and it just sits there for 70 years, what can I do to make it go faster and just install and quit being stupid?

Re: [newbie] zip drives

2001-04-15 Thread Chubby Vic
If you wish to eject it with a software command under Linux, type eject /mnt/zip or eject /dev/sda4 that is if your zip drive is on that device, if you want more info please don't hesitate to ask me. On Sunday 15 April 2001 09:12 am, so spoke mike hodder: On my zip drive there's a small,

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-09 Thread Chubby Vic
rd to find" were not kidding. On Monday 09 April 2001 06:19 am, so spoke Mark Weaver: Vic, Just how many times have you fired "boogerbutt" this year? :) Mark On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Chubby Vic wrote: Thank you so much for the advice, I can now log in from here. I don't

[newbie] stupid ftp server sucks broken pice of shit

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
I can't get my ftp server to work some buttface broke it please help HELP HGELP STUPID FTP SERVER PLEASE HELP ME I NEED IT BACK BADLY!!

[newbie] EMERGENY HELP CANT MAKE FTP SERVER GO

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
Please help me I canb'ty make my ftp server go its broken

Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
go any further, need ftp server, how do I get it back? On Sunday 08 April 2001 05:20 pm, so spoke Fred Schroeder: Could you be a little more vague? Original Message On 4/8/01, 12:20:28 PM, Chubby Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] stupid ftp server broken pice of : I can't

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
shut down -- please try again later. ftp then I bang the keyboard in frustration. On Sunday 08 April 2001 07:40 pm, so spoke CB: Chubby Vic wrote: running inetd and in.ftpd produces same result, Are you running proftp, wu-ftp, or other for your server? Are you running inetd or xinetd

Re: [newbie] ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
to get back to all who e mail me. On Sunday 08 April 2001 09:46 pm, so spoke Mark Weaver: What happened Vic? How can I help? Mark On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Chubby Vic wrote: I can't get

Re: Griff, you're fired Re: [newbie] stupid ftp server broken

2001-04-08 Thread Chubby Vic
09:10 pm, you wrote: Chubby Vic wrote: I am trying to use wu-ftpd and yes, when I kill both xinetd and inetd I get connection refused, but when I turn it back on I still get A search on google shows that 500 is a "syntax error" with wu-ftp. Look in your logs to see if it's t

[newbie] wmv or asf files in Linux?

2001-04-04 Thread Chubby Vic
Is there any way to play or convert wmv or asf files to mpeg in Linux? I do not have a windows partition Thanks

Re: [newbie] my time is fixed thank you thank you thank you

2001-04-03 Thread Chubby Vic
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you I had to install setuptool, somehow it got not installed still thank you thank you thank you Did you set your clock to GMT? If not, do so. If so, undo it. When installing 7.2, it asked me if my hardware clock was set to

[newbie] my time is broken and I can't fix it PLEASE RESPOND

2001-04-02 Thread Chubby Vic
I'm in Central time I can't make my machine set the rimt right that sucks and pisses me off I want my time right

[newbie] how come stupid gimp won't make an image transparent to paste

2001-04-01 Thread Chubby Vic
I'm very pissed off I cant get gimp to make an image transparent so I can paste it over another image and not block the back image out. Is gimp just dumb or did no one write how to do it? I can't find it anywhere

Re: [newbie] Mandrake IRC channel

2001-03-28 Thread Chubby Vic
I don't get it, it says "not connected to a server" Welcome to sirc version 2.211; type /help for help Connecting to ChatJunkiesNet, port Random... * E * Hostname `ChatJunkiesNet' not found Loading filter parser... Filter Parser Loaded Loaded KSirc.pl With: Super Willy Enhancements,

[newbie]

2001-03-19 Thread Vic Meakin
not sure what happens when i play mp3's. Oh, and this happens no matter which mp3 player i use. My machine is a p3 750MHz, with 128MB RAM, if that helps any? Thank you very much for your help, Vic

Re: [newbie]

2001-03-19 Thread Vic Meakin
sound controller in kde. If under gnome mp3 runs fine, you can try to open your mp3 program in this way: type "artsdsp yourmp3 program"; this solve my problems in 7.2 for xmms, and some games... Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) - Mensaje Original - Remitente: "Vic

[newbie] Need help with SoundStudio PLEASE RESPOND!!!

2001-03-13 Thread Vic
I can't get soundstudio to work, all versions are useless and broken, one says: [ntr@kittypuss ntr]$ studio Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/home/lenny/rpm/BUILD/SoundStudio/init.tk": no such file or directory while executing "source $MYFILES/init.tk " (file

[newbie] SoundStudio, sox, useless, need better sound file editor

2001-03-13 Thread Vic
freshmeat.net, sourceforce, (screw typos) google, all show nothing, pelase help

Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-12 Thread Vic
I wish it *would* work for me, I get so pooped off and bang the keyboard everytime I see that stupid connection refused message, why does it not just shut up and connect? On Saturday 10 March 2001 08:25 pm, so spoke David E. Fox: On Monday 05 March 2001 03:57, you wrote: I don't see what

Re: [newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-12 Thread Vic
Yeah, all I wanted was aback up for when both ICQ and aol im puck up and don't me connect, then my buddies can ssh into my machine, and we can all use the talk thing like I used to back in the 70's. On Sunday 11 March 2001 10:05 am, so spoke Meph Istopheles: While I've not been using

[newbie] Suondstudio Broken

2001-03-12 Thread Vic
I can't run soundstudio It says: [ntr@kittypuss ntr]$ studio Error in startup script: couldn't execute "/usr/lib/SoundStudio/studio_tool": no such file or directory while executing "exec $FILE(Tool) diagnostics" (procedure "CARDSetter" line 5) invoked from within "CARDSetter"

Re: [newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
Uh oh, I bet that could be, as the Sprint router that my backbone provider goes through has been having serious speed problems lately. Dang, its gotta be corrupt download then. I'm running the new Traktopel 8 version, I hope that one';s compilers are not buggy. On Friday 09 March 2001 03:37

[newbie] ftp server Broken

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
Hi Does anyone know how to fix the ftp server software in Traktopel version? Mine is broken

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

2001-03-09 Thread Vic
I was using the ADSL connection thingy. I could config it later with linuxconf tho. Setup was for static ip. On Friday 09 March 2001 04:39 am, so spoke Neville Cobb: I had the same problem an could not connect to the internet via a modem after the installation. Following your install were

[newbie] Newest Gnapster has BIG BUG in it

2001-03-08 Thread Vic
Hello sorry about OT, but there is no gnapster lsit, but i know some of you do gnapster. The latest release has a bug, it wont even compile. I would do the rpm instead, or wait for the stable release. [root@kittypuss gnapster-1.4.2]# make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory

[newbie] My evaluation of New Traktopel Beta Mandrake 8

2001-03-08 Thread Vic
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 unix BTC cdrom, and

BANGG!!!!!!!!Re: [newbie] 8.0 Beta

2001-03-06 Thread Vic
BANG --its dead! On Monday 05 March 2001 06:34 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Come on! - DIE THREAD DIE!! -

[newbie] stupid useless program talk

2001-03-05 Thread Vic
I don't see what good 'talk' is. All it does is say connection refused or refusing messages. how worthless. I even typed mesg y junk software or what?

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-18 Thread Vic
I erased all that are listed in the small quoted printable text file attached. On Sunday 18 February 2001 10:10 am, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: No but now I deleted a couple of stale files and did a runlevel switch from 5 to 1 back to 5 again and now they work. weird

[newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-17 Thread Vic
I installed the ximian gnome. KDE icon files and other files are still in the dir /home/user/Desktop so I know they were not erased, how can I get them displayed again. I have no clue what to do.

Re: [newbie] Kde desktop icons not displayed

2001-02-17 Thread Vic
No but now I deleted a couple of stale files and did a runlevel switch from 5 to 1 back to 5 again and now they work. weird On Saturday 17 February 2001 08:46 pm, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: I installed the ximian gnome. KDE icon files and other files are still in the dir /home/user

Re: [newbie] commands

2001-02-13 Thread Vic
Oh gee THAT was HELPFUL -- NOTTT!!! How about giving the guy some USEFUL info Such as--- To change directories, type cd /bin and that will place you in the directory /bin one down from root level. To go to the directory /usr type cd /usr and you will be in it. Then if you

[newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
, I might hold off on updating to any betas until I hear from other people first, as I should not have messed with my main machine, but I still thank Chris for making them into rpm form and I thank KDE for trying. Thanks Vic

Re: [newbie] AWE 64 ISA PNP

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
clicking shutdown console mode or from a virtual terminal or xterm or konsole type telinit 3 and it should go into text only mode, then log in as the root user and type sndconfig and it should begin setting up your card, just follow its lead. Hope this helps. Vic On Sunday 11 February 2001 03

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
thank KDE for trying. Thanks Vic

Re: [newbie] My review of KDE2.1 beta 2

2001-02-11 Thread Vic
Hmm so did I, I still don't get it. Maybe its the hardware on this machine? On Sunday 11 February 2001 04:23 pm, Michael O'Henly wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2001 13:54, Vic wrote: Cool. How did you get your kcontrol to work? I didn't have to do anything. It just worked "out of th

[newbie] Broken user agent Konqueror please post solution helpm

2001-02-09 Thread Vic
Hi Konquerors user agent save is broken How do I fix it? Thank you

[newbie] Ok I give up---HOW is it done???

2001-02-09 Thread Vic
How do you get Konqueror to save the user agent? Is it broken? Is it a mystery? Is it a contest for all to figure out and win a big buttload of money? What am I missing here?!?!?!?! My goal, to go to Shockwave.com and fool it so it will quitF*@%$@# ing with me and lying and saying

[newbie] Broken kcontrol -- archives searched file not found

2001-02-08 Thread Vic
My Kcontrol center is broken, nothing to click on. Searched arkives, file not found please help Tank you

Re: [newbie] For the love of GOD!!!!!

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
I have actually gone in and put their e mail addy in the unsub blank for them just to be nice, and hopefully the machine sent them an unsub request confirmation. I have been on and off this list a few times when I had to take the server down for more than a week so there would be no annoying

Re: [newbie] mount point

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
shall try to help more or I will pass it on to someone who knows more than I if I cannot answer correctly. Vic On Tuesday 06 February 2001 12:52 am, so spoke mike smalheiser: hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point

[newbie] Cant do direct cd copy

2001-02-06 Thread Vic
of an audio cd? If so how, I tried dd if=/dev/hdb of=/usr/tmp/testiso.iso and nothing it wont go. Please help Thanks Vic

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

2001-02-05 Thread Vic
Many many 1 thanks!! It is working I think. On Monday 05 February 2001 05:00 am, so spoke A V Flinsch: On Sunday 04 February 2001 21:06, you wrote: Did you rerun lilo reboot? can you append the ouptut of ls -la /dev | grep cdr and cdrecord --scanbus Ok did

Re: [newbie] Cd recorder works but-----

2001-02-04 Thread Vic
I got that part to work, but the cd rom read only drive is not recognised by xcdroast, linux will recognise it, but not the app because the app wants a scsi drive, how would I go about making the first drive as a reader get recognised by xcdroast so I can direct copy a cd in the reader to the

Re: [newbie] Installation of .bin files

2001-02-03 Thread Vic
Those can be run approximately two ways. In either a text or virtual terminal you can type ./executablefile.bin where executablefile.bin means the file name of the binary executable. Hope this helps. Vic On Saturday 03 February 2001 03:06 pm, so spoke BamBam: I'm new to Linux and I've

Re: [newbie] Cameras was: More problems as if

2001-01-31 Thread Vic
Yeah no kidding. And winprinters are rotten to the core and all through to the other side, I wish they did not exist, along with wimpblowdumbs (winmodems). I hope that Canon is not planning to make any winprinters if they have not already, and I agree with your statement on Canon, they should

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.2 crashes

2001-01-31 Thread Vic
I am not sure but I *think* it has to do with the chipset on the SOYO SY-5EH5 motherboard, I have heard that those sony motherboards are weird, so it might be that something in the chipset is not allowing Linux to grab onto the hardware, I guess like the other guy said you could test out the

Duh on me---Re: [newbie] Is it so much to ask---

2001-01-30 Thread Vic
Ok now I get it. I guess I was thinking of the www.linuxprinting.org too-hard method, so you mean the linuxconf built-in method (Big DUH on me!) Dang, those canons must be weird, I never have bought one, but many thanks for the warning, I do not now intend to get a canon printer, I am glad I

[newbie] More problems as if I did not have enough

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
Stupid printer again I could just throw it out the dang window. Now it prints half the page and then tries to print the other half ON ANOTHER SHEET!!! What is going on ??

Re: Odp: [newbie] Is it so much to ask---

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
command: printtool and add new printer and etc . i had the same problem and now it is ok. My printer is Canon BJC-1000 Pozdrawiam Adam Sokolowski - Original Message - From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 8:49 AM Subject: [newbie] Is it so

[newbie] After running kups and giving it a good sound spanking--

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
Well, after giving the printer a good sound spanking and more importantly running Kups, must have been what needed to be done, not sure why it needed reconfigging after all this upgrading to the beta, sometimes you just have to spank it I guess. Weird. I think all is working for now, I hope.

[newbie] Please make Knotifv stop crashing

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
Hello how do I make Knotifv stop crashing? I have KDE2.1 beta 2 kernel 2.2.17-21mdk Thanks

Re: [newbie] Soft for burners

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
I would highly recommend xcdroast I have tested it on a Plextor running KDE 2.1 beta 1 kernel 2.2.17-21mdk I hope it works as good for the machine you are using as it does the one I am. On Sunday 28 January 2001 10:05 am, you wrote: Hi to all. Can anyone recomend a software package

Re: [newbie] 2nd Ethernet Card Problem

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
Maybe it needs the tulip driver if not being recognised? do you have it to mount as nfs filesystem? Sorry if I am not helping, but I wish to try. On Sunday 28 January 2001 09:56 am, you wrote: Hi, OK...here is my dilema...I have a system with 2 ethernet cards in it and the 1st card has

Re: [newbie] After running kups and giving it a good sound spanking--

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
Kups did stop the halfie page printing, the words did not run off of the page, they actually did the opposite, it would print half the page and then eject that page and finnish it on another top half of the next, it stunk like a big poop. On Sunday 28 January 2001 10:13 am, you wrote: Vic

Re: [newbie] In spite of it all I still love linux

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
, is there a way I could get the 'go away' box (or close box) to be back on the left side again? Just wondering, it was nice to have it there :)) Excellent dist, good over all upgrade. On Saturday 27 January 2001 03:09 pm, so spoke -michael-: Vic: I assume this means that your upgrade

Re: [newbie] cannot get cups to work

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
This is a shot in the dark, but if it works, (I hope) then cool. What I did was to bring up kups as root, the cups daemon configger, check out the settings in this if you know what they should be for the printer that is on the system you're using. Hope it works. Vic On Sunday 28 January 2001

Re: [newbie] In spite of it all I still love linux

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
. On Sunday 28 January 2001 04:47 pm, so spoke Tom Brinkman: On Sunday 28 January 2001 04:02 pm, Vic wrote: Yep in spite of a couple of quirks, the non saving user agent on Konqueror and knotifv (now fixed I hope and thank you to Tom Brinkman for this fix) and the printer whacos yes it went

Re: [newbie] After running kups and giving it a good sound spanking--

2001-01-28 Thread Vic
An old Old OLD original commercial/office-grade built like a tank and weighs a few kg s HP DeskJet, thats all just 'DeskJet' no numbers or funny little logos after that. On Sunday 28 January 2001 04:49 pm, so spoke Romanator: Vic wrote: Kups did stop the halfie page printing, the words did

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
ss he blows it again. On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:43 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: au come-on Vic...give the guy a break.

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
64M ram kernel 2.2.17-21mdk installed from the download of 7.2 iso Should I download from the post that Romanator did ? I can't find the post from Chris. Thanks for all the info On Saturday 27 January 2001 01:41 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: Vic, Have you done any of the KDE updates from the batch

Re: [newbie] should i get 7.2 over 7.1?

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
Ok I need the exact url and server stuff. and please show me the correct folder too. Thank you On Friday 26 January 2001 08:28 pm, -michael- wrote: Vic: The french ftp site (cyril) has always given me the fastest connections. Get everything in the folder. As far as KDE goes, it's the best

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-27 Thread Vic
it back. Vic Vic, Here's the help file that I used: If you want to upgrade KDE 2 to KDE2 Beta 2, download the files from the following link: http://atik.ciril.fr/pub/linux//mandrake-devel/unsupported/i586/kde2.1Beta2 Step 1. Log on as root and download the kde2.1Beta2 rpms. Copy the rpms

Re: [newbie] OT Travelling -- was drakxtools

2001-01-21 Thread Vic
I think that would be a really neat program, that is, if our messed up us government would go for it, I would choose to visit Africa (If I could stand the heat, but from the pictures I have seen from my uncle and aunt, it was such beautiful countryside) and my heritage country (Britain) and

[newbie] please please please HELP ME!!!!

2001-01-21 Thread Vic
My HP Deskjet does not wrk linuxprinting.org is too dang confusing and too hard for me to understand. Please someone help me I can't use my printer. I have an HP Deskjet black and white inkjet printer, no numbers after the HP Deskjet. Cups doesn't do a blasted thing it just makes my printer

[newbie] Where O where did Soundstudio go???

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
visuals. thanks Vic

Re: [newbie] What's your favorite Plextor burner?

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
I like the Plextor PX-W8432T lower price than the higher speed one and I don't really care to burn at high speeds than 2 or 4 anyway, slower burn, better copy. Just my 2 cents On Saturday 20 January 2001 06:50 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, As I am on my way to the store this weekend, I

[newbie] Can't print

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
My printer does not print. I can't make cups go linuxprinting.org is too hard can't do it. Please give step by step instructions. I have black and white HP Deskjet, thats all, no numbers. Please help, I am without a printer if I can't make it go.

[newbie] Won't install, and I do have the glibc rpm in

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
Why won't SoundStudio install when I already installed the stupid glibc 2 that it asked for? [root@kittypuss Downloads]# rpm -ivh SoundStudio-1.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm error: failed dependencies: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) is needed by SoundStudio-1.0.5-1mdk [root@kittypuss Downloads]# I do not

[newbie] Feature suggestion

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
Hello I think it would be nice to have a feature put into a future mandrake version, capable of being disabled of course, that would, when rpm or an app cood not find a library, it would do a search the entire filesystem until it found one that would make the app work, or if it were not on the

[newbie] Uh oh bad rpm

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
Attention list, do not install SoundStudio-1.0.5-1mdk.i586.rpm it is a bad rpm. [root@kittypuss Downloads]# studio Error in startup script: couldn't read file "/home/lenny/rpm/BUILD/SoundStudio/init.tk": no such file or directory while executing "source $MYFILES/init.tk " (file

[newbie] Stumped

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
Well, I guess I will have to stick with the old version the current version of SoundStudio only seems to want to give me alot of %$# If someone could explain this, I would be very grateful, because I sure as heck can't. This is beyond my comprehension at the moment. Thanks in advance. Oh

Re: [newbie] Re: GNOME or KDE

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
I can't decide, I like both KDE and GNOME, I use them interchangeably, so if I had to choose between them I would be stuck there like a runaway if else loop. On Saturday 20 January 2001 01:14 pm, Jesse C. Chang wrote: Thio Yu Jin wrote: Why is Enlightenment so much better than KDE or

[newbie] Crash report

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
Hello list I have a couple of crash reports, listed below, attn: Developers! (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols

Re: [newbie] Crash report

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
oh poop Sorry wrong button again! Since these appear to be KDE problems, I'd suggest you send them to bugs.kde.org rather than the list. M. On Saturday 20 January 2001 15:59, you wrote: Hello list I have a couple of crash reports,

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-20 Thread Vic
What I don't get is why there are even "classes", unless you are in school. I went to computer school, so I guess we were 'classified' hehe.

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