[newbie] sound in mdk 10

All, I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly am missing the sound. Can anyone tell me how I might be able to get around this? Mdk picks it up as a Intel Corp ICH4 845 G/GL Chipset AC97. It is the only aspect (apaer from my soft modem) that I cant get to

RE: [newbie] sound in mdk 10

the wrong tree). Stevie :) -Original Message- From: Wayne Petherick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:38 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] sound in mdk 10 All, I have finally got mdk 10 working on my Asus M6 laptop, but frustratingly am missing the sound

[newbie] Installing icons

All, I have downloaded some awesome icon themes from the net (I really want to install crystal). I have followed the instructions to the letter (pasted below), but these do not work. Can anyone tell me how to install icons you get from the net? Thanks, Wayne Open the KDE-Menu an start the

Re: [newbie] VMWare 3

, Wayne --- Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El jue, 28-03-2002 a las 10:40, Wayne Petherick escribió: Damian, thanks for the reply. I have gotten it to work, but I get errors related to not being able to find a bootable cd-rom or floppy. Restart and try again. I didn't have these probs

Re: [newbie] VMWare 3

Damian, thanks for the reply. I have gotten it to work, but I get errors related to not being able to find a bootable cd-rom or floppy. Restart and try again. I didn't have these probs before and figured it was something to do with the recompilation. The devices are set up and there, they

[newbie] VMWare 3

I just installed 8.2 and went to install VMware 3, but it tells me it was not built for this kernel version. It does allow you to try and rewrite the softare for vmware, but it then tells me that gcc v. 2.96 is not supported by the development team. Is anyone else out there using VMWare 3, and

[newbie] vmware 3,.0 and samba

Has anyone here got vmware 3 and samba to work? I have been through the setup shown in three different texts, as well as half a dozen websites. I cannot get XP to recognise the host filesystem. I have been trying to use the support section on vmwares site, but the whole site seems to be down.

[newbie] now onto the cdrom's....

All, I am still having problems with my floppy, and in trying to fix the problem today found that my cd rom's don't work either! This is what I get when I try to mount one (also found this out trying to play a music cd). [wayne@CPE-203-45-210-121 wayne]$ cd /mnt [wayne@CPE-203-45-210-121 mnt]$

[newbie] fd0 not installed? available?

All, I have just installed LM 8.1 and like it very much. Except...I can't get my floppy disk working. I need it under Vware to be able to boot into Win2k, and I need it to be able to transfer files from one machine to another. When I try to access it, it tells me fd0 is not a valid block

[newbie] system slow

All, I recently used the ximian install script to update to gnome 1.4. Prior to this I had used red carpet to update the system but owing to a few problems ended up using the script instead. After using the script, the system started to work very slowly (click netscape button, hard drive light

Re: [newbie] Aurora

Dennis type 'pico' followed by the file name. This is a terminal editor. Wayne

[newbie] Optical mouse

I have just bought an optical mouse (LOgitech and USB) and cannot get it to work under 7.2. Does anybody know how I can get this to work? Thanks, Wayne

Re: [newbie] XFree86 on 7.2 with s3virge/mx freezes system totally

John, are you saying that with my Savage 3D to turn off acceleration in the XF86Config file will get the card to work? I have tried the framebuffer device and it works (though a little choppy and unaccelerated) at least I can use my Lappie for Linux :) I am happy yo give this a try if you

RE: [newbie] Laptop and MDK 7.2

Thanks very much for the help. I appreciate it immensely and will give this a try. Vive le Linux. Wayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of - - Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2000 4:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Laptop and

[newbie] Laptop and MDK 7.2

I am after someones help in setting up 7.2 on my laptop. I have an Asus L8000 series with an 8MB S3 Savage MX/VX video card. I cannot get 7.2 to work with my video card even though it installs fine, but does die at the install and configuration of XFree. Every resolution I try comes back with

[newbie] Quake2

I recently bought Quake 2 for linux only to fidn that I can't get it to work. If I run it in software x11 mode, the screen is the size of postage stamp, if i try to use any of the other acceleration modes (I have a Gefore 256 vid card) it seg faults or core dumps and says that to run it in

[newbie] Laptop woes

I would REALLY like to install LM MDK 7.2 on my laptop but I got to the installation of XFREE and hit some problems. When I tried to set my resolution, monitor etc it kept telling me the device was busy or that the colour depth I had chosen was not supported by my chipset. I run windows at

[newbie] BT848 video capture card and MDK 7.2

I have just upgraded to 7.2 and cannot get my BT848 capture card working. I love the new distro, but when I launch kwintv or xawtv it either locks the machine up, or won't let me change any settings, even as root. Any thoughts? Thanks, Wayne

[newbie] USB Scanner

Howdy, does anyone know whether or not I can use my usb scanner with Mdk 7.1 yet? If so, what programs are usable to capture images? Thanks, Wayne

Re: [newbie] Asus AGP V6600 Geforce and Mandrake

Quaylar, I can and do. You have to use the SVGA XFree server. Wayne - Original Message - From: "Quaylar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 4:26 AM Subject: [newbie] Asus AGP V6600 Geforce and Mandrake hi all ! i recently searched the graphics

Re: [newbie] Bottom panel configuration

Hugo, I have the same problem. There is no open windows buttons on my task bar. The only way to restore them is to open my pager and do it that way. I would much prefer to have the buttons back though. If anyone knows a fix, [we] would aprpreciate it. Wayne

Re: [newbie] Re-partitioning the hard disk

Playing devils advocate her but when I originally installed MDK, I let diskdrake do the work and it worked like a charm. Even did a fresh install of windows after my last linux reinstall and everyting went sweet. Sorry! Wayne On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, bascule wrote: i second that, diskdrake

[newbie] Changing partition type

I recently purchased Corel WPO2K and think it is great. It comes with the latest version of Corel Linux with it and I was wanting to install this to a spare 3GB partition I have currently allocated to Windows. I ghave partition magic 5 and so changing the partition is easy. Last time I did

Re: [newbie] Command execution

Barry, in command line terms the . is the functional equivalent of "this directory". The / means the root or main directory off of that indicated. So in effect the ./means the root of the current directory. IN simple terms, it means the directory you are in! The reason you do this is because

[newbie] XFree86 v4.0

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Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

After installing LILO in my MBR I was wondering if there is any way you can move it from there to the start of the linux partition. I have some boot manager software I would like to use but can't while LILO is sitting in the MBR. Thanks., Wayne

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

the option there to boot from floppy, MBR or root partition. I did this, installed my boot manager software and voila, worked like a charm. Thanks again, Wayne - Original Message - From: Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Wayne Petherick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursd

Re: [newbie] Down with LILO!

] Sent: Thursday, May 11, 2000 9:30 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Down with LILO! Hi, You can run fdisk /mbr that will take Lilo out , then install your boot manger of chose. That's what I have done. Hope this helps Robert F. Trettel Wayne Petherick wrote: After installing LILO in my

Re: re. [newbie] StarOffice Mandrake7

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Re: [newbie] installing acrobat reader

Kpackage is for .rpm files. For the tar.gz file you will need to run tar -xzvf filename This will untar the file and from there you will need to run the install for the linux version of AR. Do you know xpdf can also read .pdf files and is packaged with linux? Wayne At 09:20 AM 5/10/00 -0700,

[expert] Mutt or Pine

Howdy all, I have read all of the mutt and pine how to's and man pages that exist and still cannot get either to work. I appear to have my fetchmail set up properly in that it downloads my mail fine, but I do not know where to!!! I am guessing that where it downloads it to is where I have to

Re: [newbie] Video Cards - Any Recomendations?

Joe, you could always try the various TNT cards that are out there. Most of them will come in PCI and AGP so you should shop around. Wayne At 02:47 PM 5/3/00 -0400, you wrote: The only decent PCI video cards on the market are the 3DFX  VooDoo cards but even with those I don't think you can get

[newbie] VCD Player

Anyone know of a good FREE vcd player for linux? I am trying to use an unregistered MTV at the moment but the audio cuts out until it is registered. THanks, Wayne

Re: [newbie] OT - Partition magic

:50 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] OT - Partition magic Wayne Petherick wrote: This is OT so I will take it OLcould anyone here who has partition magic v5 contact me off list please. Thanks,Wayne Why is that OT? The subject is pertinent to this mailing list, because this list is about

[expert] OT - Partition magic

This is OT so I will take it OLcould anyone here who has partition magic v5 contact me off list please. Thanks, Wayne

[newbie] TV Cards

I have just picked up a Studio PCTV Rave card which is based on the BT848 chipset. I have installed this in myt machine and cannot get it to work. I know this is a bit OT, but if anyone here has a card like this, if they could contact me off list to help me out I would really appreciate it. I

Re: [newbie] bootloaders

Kirk, be careful with boot magic. I used it recently, removed one of the partitions it had listed as a boot partition (which wasn't, ot was my primary slave - a drive full of windows games!) and so removed the entry. It trashed the whole disk and wiped all of my programs. I will never use it

Re: [newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic

b/web, I will tell you how I set up my machine and hopefully this will help. I tried setting up a small partition for the /boot information, a partition for wind'ohs, and one for linux. As my /home directory is on another drive this proved to be somewhat confusing. In the end, what I did was

Re: [newbie] Installation/Cylinder 1024/and/Boot Magic

b/web, I used the dos fdisk to split the disk originally. Then I used a standard format program to format the drive. It would be good if diskdrake was available for general use but I don't think you can run it outside of a linux install. After Windows was installed I ran the setup for linux and

Re: [newbie] Uninstalling Stuff

Patrick, if you installed from a tar file you can use the make uninstall command. Wayne On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, you wrote: Thank for the assistance,but what about zip files. How do I uninstall those. --- flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Dyer wrote: Can someone tell me how to

[newbie] Scanner

I have just been given a scanner for my birthday (21 again) and it is a Canon USB model. Does great scans BTW. I was wondering whether I could get it to work under Linux? I know that USB support is experimental but I would really like to at least give it a try. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: [newbie] windows mouse possition sensibitlity

Gustavo, if you use the Sawmill window manager, you will get this effect. Wayne On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, you wrote: Hello I want that the windows sensibility in my linux ( mandrake 7.0 ) will be like in UNIX , I mean when is the mouse is the current window , and no like Windows I mean for

Re[2]: [newbie] Major crack/hack attack

Just a question...how did you do this? My box is sitting on a netwrok full time which is protected by a firewall. Will this stop intrusions into my machine or do I need to set up individual level security? I have tried various ip logging programs but for someone whio is fairly illiterate to

[newbie] Two questions

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Re: [newbie] Netscape 6

I used the pre-release version. It is still pretty buggy. Wayne At 07:05 PM 4/5/00 +0100, you wrote: Is there a beta of Netscape 6 for Linux, or is there only one for Windows at present?

Re: [newbie] Home recording with Linux?

Toni, I am no expert but I will tell you that unless you are willing to learn at least a bit of how Linux works then you really shouldn't be using it. First of all, you will drive yourself insane, second of all, it does not run like Wind'ohs. YOu will HAVE to learn about Linux file systems and

[newbie] Uninstalling tar files

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[newbie] First Verdicts: Netscape 6

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[newbie] Netscape 6

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Re: [newbie] Install

Michael, I would strongly recommend against using lnx4win to install on a windows 98 partition if thius is what you have in mind. The install and operation of linux are slow and very painful. YOu are much better off installing and running on a separare partition. If you aren't familiar with this,

Re: [newbie] Drive Full?!? (please respond this time)

If you are using nortons it will dump your infrequently used files at the end which will give your partioning software the impression your drive is full. Try either telling it to place all files at the beginning (or alternatively, none at the end) or remove it and then run normal defrag which is

Re: [newbie] Q re: HDD

Alan, thanks for the tip. I guess that is what another subscriber was referring to as allocating X MB for /home, X MB for /usr etc etc...I didn't know you could do that with Linux. Also, whilst I have the soapbox, I would just like to say there has been some flaming going on about people asking