Re: [newbie] A KDE problem

1999-07-28 Thread darkknight
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, FORNWALL JOSHUA JOHN wrote: I'm not sure what I did, but somehow I lost the taskbar and application bar from my desktop under my normal user name. I'm being forced to use root so that I can access these, but I really don't like the obvious risk this presents. How can I

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, chagilt wrote: Hey I would just like to thank all of you for your help with the soundblaster live...with your advice i had it up and running in under 30 minutes...thanks a lot all!!! Chad Guilette Hi Chad, Just wandering, How does it it sound under Linux? I have been

Re: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Mark E Hood wrote: Yes. Count me as also having had this problem. I, too, would love to know how to fix it. Seems to be a problem. mark - Original Message - From: David Gill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:55 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Richard Myers wrote: On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I was about to make that statement earlier, but I then thought it wasn't tre since everything that has been said indicated that hard links point to a single file and when all hard links die the file does as

Re: [newbie] Redhat 6 and Soundblaster Live

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Martin White wrote: I know i'm not the person you directed your mail to, but i'm going to reply anyway !! I thought the sound of the SBLive was pretty crappy under linux with the first two versions of the driver, but with the advent of the new version, things seem to

Re: [newbie] shuting down by ord. user..

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, James Stewart wrote: On Tue 27 Jul, Matt Stegman wrote: /etc/shutdown.allow is a file that contains the names of users aloowed to shutdown the system. It may not be present on your system yet; you'll have to create it. My shutdown.allow file is: "james jim

Re: [newbie] Unix lessons; was:[ Oh, yeah]

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Vox wrote: At 12:32 PM 7/27/99 , you wrote: Hmmm. Glad it helped. Maybe we should do some quickie Unix-command-line intro lessons online. QUESTION: should it be on this list, or would it be better to start a new, separate maillist? Or should we just try a few easy

Re: [newbie] turning KDE off

1999-07-27 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, russ proudman wrote: I've got KDE set to automatically start whenever I boot up Linux-Mandrake. But I want to exit KDE (not just a shell within KDE) and can't get there. What's the trick to go back to good ol' Linux without auto KDE? Thx.

Re: [newbie] Still Having Trouble Configuring my internal PNP Modem

1999-07-24 Thread darkknight
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Joe Patton wrote: The information provided to me below by Jason was very helpful in understanding how to query and configure my serial ports in Linux and X-Windows(Thanks, Jason), but I still haven't been able to get the isapnp utility to assign a free I/0 port to my

Re: [newbie] Theme problems

1999-07-24 Thread darkknight
On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Trevor Wilson wrote: I installed a theme and now my background changes between the theme background and another background at seemingly random times. Why?!? A little information would help. What environment is it in - KDE, Gnome, ect. ? What window manager are you using

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-23 Thread darkknight
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Probably for the same reason DOS can only use 640kB RAM. I can hear it now... "Nobody will ever have a drive larger than 2GB!" Correction: Nobody will ever BE ABLE TO have a drive larger than 2GB! That is, with DOS. I like learning about the

Re: [newbie] Oh, yeah

1999-07-23 Thread darkknight
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, you wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: I've spent long sleepless nights before fixing the system.ini file after moving programs from C:\Program Files to D:\Prog. Luckily, I had a utility to rename most

RE: [newbie] disk druid

1999-07-23 Thread darkknight
On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Ken Wilson wrote: Try using fdisk, it's command line and a litte more terse. "Definitely" read the man page before starting though as it is very powerful and you can cause all sorts of destruction if you're not careful. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] old mail

1999-07-22 Thread darkknight
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Lloyd Osten wrote: Today I received two messages from this list dated July 12 (today is the 21st) Strange.anyone else have that happen? Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] yep.stuff happens no problemo here though good thing I did'nt email my isp with a

Re: [newbie] Login Background

1999-07-22 Thread darkknight
On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Andy Goth wrote: Eh, personaly i'd have just installed aciddraw onto my dosemu image ;) Aciddraw? And what does dosemu have to do with this? Well, Acid Draw is a dos program and I bet Axalon dos not waste space on his machine with dos or windoze :) John Love [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] CRASH!

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Trevor Wilson wrote: A window wasn't responding under KDE, and I couldn't kill it, so I tried to log off and the system stopped responding. I waited a long time and then power cycled it and it managed to boot OK, except now every time it shuts down, "shutting down nfs

Re: [newbie] Man ? (revised edition) :)

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: Well, I personally think no mailer can outdo pine, but I know pine needs getting used to, and it's probably not what everyone will want. If you like Outlook Express, I recommend you have a look at kexpress (a KDE mailer inspired by

Re: [newbie] a good modem

1999-07-20 Thread darkknight
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, you wrote: Actually I have two pieces of equipment here. The Cisco AS5200 (with Rockwell chipset Mica modems), and a Lucent Livingston PM3A with the Lucent chip digital modems. Interesting. We use an Ascend device here to

Re: [newbie] Uneducated questions

1999-07-19 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Kelly Dorset wrote: These are from what I've heard from a friend.. Are they true.. 1) Can linux-mandrake be installed on a machine running win95/98/NT 2) Does it like fat32? 3) How simple is it to install.. if you've got any handing beginner info lying around

Re: [newbie] install problems 13.0gig

1999-07-19 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, jsm wrote: Well , I've been following this thread . I also have the same problem with a 4 gig HD . But I'm still confused . If I create a /boot partition , will the Mandrake install program install the kernel and LILO it it automatically ? And this partition should be at

Re: [newbie] Lack of security when booting in Linux single

1999-07-05 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, Jo wrote: Hi, Recently my system failed to boot (I had added something to rc.local, that didn't belong there). On irc I was told that I could still boot if I gave linux single at the LILO boot. This worked, but to my surprise I never had to enter a login or a password.

Re: [newbie] Window managers

1999-07-05 Thread darkknight
On Mon, 05 Jul 1999, J Mann wrote: Hello, I want to use other window managers like AfterStep and Enlightenment. How do I change from KDE? I've looked at all the configuration screens, but where do I tell it I want AfterStep instead of KDE? -- Jeremy Mann http://manndesigns.dynip.com

Re: [newbie] Creative Linux driver page?

1999-07-03 Thread darkknight
On Sat, 03 Jul 1999, you wrote: Creative Labs has a page of Linux drivers that I ran across by accident while using a computer at work. I didn't note the URL, and now I can't find it even with Google. Does anyone know where it is? adios, STeve W

Re: [newbie] Time to watch movies a.k.a RealPlayer

1999-07-02 Thread darkknight
ust change the directory names used above with what you have and it should work.it works fine for me. John Love aka darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] movie editor

1999-07-01 Thread darkknight
://www.hotmail.com In KDE there is aKtion it is in the Multimedia submenu of your KDE menu. Not sure what others come with Mandrake 6.0 but I am sure there are others out there. aKtion by the way, plays .avi .mov .mpeg and .fli files. John Love aka darkknight [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] explain the difference

1999-06-28 Thread darkknight
a pentium/pentium compatible or better., John Love aka: darkknight