[newbie] faxing?

2000-10-05 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, Is there a way to fax from a Linux box? I used to do that with Windows often and I would like to set it up with Linux. I have Linux-Mandrake 7 Complete and a Cirrus Logic faxmodem 56k I believe. Would someone help me set this up or lead me to info about doing so? Thank you. Sincerely,

[newbie] Using Wine to play a Windows game?

2000-10-04 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, My husband thinks he is being deprived because he can't play his Hearts game ( a Windows compatible game) on Linux. May I use Wine to play the game? This is not the hearts game that comes with Windows. If it can be played by using Wine how exactly do I do that? I am a newbie so please

[newbie] Xfce and KDE?

2000-10-04 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Paul and All, Thank you Paul for the explicit directions for setting up Xfce. How would I set up Xfce as one of my desktops and not to be the only one? Actually I want to use KDE and Xfce. In other words I want to be able to switch from one to the other.Those so far are my favorites. Any h

Re: [newbie]ethernet card setup

2000-10-04 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, It has been advised to me to use Pnp dump to configure my SMC EZ 10/100 ISA plug and play card. Could someone take me step by step through that process? If that works would it be best to go to Linuxconf or netcfg to finish? I looked at Netcfg and I cannot figure out alot of what they

[newbie] Choosing different desktops

2000-10-03 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, As was suggested I did reinstall Linux Mandrake 7 because I could never get the graphical login to comeup. Now I have it! I am thrilled. However, I cannot figure out how to get into the other window desktops such as xfce, enlightenment, etc. The choice is there but I can only get i

Re: [newbie] Kudzu

2000-09-30 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, Thank you for your help. I just created a big problem for myself, I think. I went into linuxconf startup services and activated autofs for some strange reason. I do not know what it does, but afterwards I could no longer use my mouse. Is there anything I can do now? Your help will

Re: [newbie] Kudzu

2000-09-30 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Paul, I will try the Harddrake. Thank you for your immediate reply and help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-24 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, I have decided to give up on the Acroread. I have heard that xpdf reads the pdf format and I do have xpdf. I just do not know how to open my Linux books with this program? Can anyone lead me through this? Thank you, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-24 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, I would like to install Acrobat Reader from an RPM. Where do I get it like that? Is it on the LinuxM CD's? Thank you for your help? Marcia

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-21 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Alan and All, After my computer crash I erased the Linux partitions and did a clean install of Linux. Everything went well until I came to configuring X. I believe I just chose the wrong monitor and went into the Xconfigurator and finally after many attempts got the right settings. Everyt

Re: [newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Alan & All, Yes, I did the edit and changed it to id:5:initdefault: and nothing changed except for one time the gui login manager came up for a couple of seconds while I already was into KDE and then went away. It never shows up at all now. Is there anything else I can do? Sound-I did fin

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Alan and All, Thank you. That sounds like what I need to do. How do I install that Linux tar file from CD#3? I have tried to install it before and had no luck. I do not understand the tar procedure. I am a newbie so could you or anyone explain step by step how to do this? Thank you very mu

Re: [newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-20 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Mark and All, I am trying to read the books in Linux. My crash happened with Linux to begin with then in the process of trying to fix things I lost my Windows 95 also. I have reinstalled Linux but have not been able to reinstall Windows 95. That does not bother me. I am happy to have a Lin

[newbie] sound and KDM graphical login manager

2000-09-19 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, Before my computer crash 4 weeks ago I had sound working in Linux but I do not know why it worked finally. Now after my reinstall (without windows 95 this time) I am trying to set up sound and I just get error messages when I try to do it through sndconfig. I went through this ex

[newbie] Only one Linux book opens

2000-09-19 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, When I put in my Linux Mandrake 7.0 #3 CD in order to read some of the books only one book will open for me. This happened before with my first install of Linux, too, before the crash. They all opened with Acrobat reader under Windows 95. What do I need to do for this? Thank yo

Re: [newbie] Thanks for the help for the KDE problemo

2000-09-17 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear All, Where would the kderc. file be? I had alot of problems getting my Xscreen down to size. I went back into xconfigurator,made some changes and it is almost down to normal size but not quite. Does anyone know what else I can do to get it to normal? Plus, My graphic login page does not c

Re: [newbie] Bad News, Napster is dead

2000-09-14 Thread WallerRaknakce
What is GNUtella and how does one get it? How does it work? Thank you. Marcia

Re: [newbie] Xconfig help

2000-09-14 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear all, Thank you for your help. I went back into xconfigurator and changed the monitor and resolution. I also changed the mouse. It ended up working. I was shocked. The graphics and fonts are slightly larger than normal but that is the way I like it. My mouse works, too! My next job is to g

Re: [newbie] Xconfig help

2000-09-13 Thread WallerRaknakce
I did not try XFdrake. Can one use it at the Lilo command prompt? How do I run XFdrake? I did go through the xconfigurator again and got my mouse to work now, however the screen, graphics, and icons are still huge and it would be hard to see what is going on unless I can do it from a terminal w

Re: [newbie] Xconfig help

2000-09-13 Thread WallerRaknakce
Dear Anyone, I crashed my linux and windows a few weeks ago. Had a local linux friend/expert help me to to reinstall linux-mandrake 7.0. Xwindows did not configure automatically so he helped me do it manually. We got a huge KDE screen and I do not know how to fix it. The font and graphics are h