[newbie] Re: Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005

2005-06-11 Thread John Zoetebier
John Zoetebier wrote: I have installen Mandriva LE 2005 on 2 different PCs. Both have the same problem : anti-aliasing is not working anymore. One OC has a Prosavage K133 and the other has a ATI Radeon 9200 video card. All other graphics work fine like movies or pictures. It's only the fonts

[newbie] Font anti-aliasing not working on Mandrive LE 2005

2005-06-10 Thread John Zoetebier
tried all kind of different configurations under KDE fonts, but the fonts stay the same. Mandrake 10.1 worked fine, so is this a problem with the new Xorg font system ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your

[newbie] Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2

2005-06-08 Thread John Zoetebier
Technologies Inc unknown chipset (0x5d44) rev 1, Mem @ 0xd800/27, 0xff5e/16 However Xorg seems to have detected my ATI Radeon 9200SE graphics card. Any ideas ? -- John Zoetebier Web site : http://www.transparent.co.nz Want to buy your

[newbie] Re: Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2

2005-06-08 Thread John Zoetebier
John Zoetebier wrote: After upgrading Mandriva LE 10.2 from Mandrake 10.1 the wheel on my mouse is not working anymore. It is a wireless Microsoft USB wheelmouse. Worked fine in Mandrake 10.1 with some ACPI options like: append=noapic nolapic devfs=mount acpi=ht With the above settings

Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-11 Thread john
frengoGorgia wrote: Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390

[newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-10 Thread john
(egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion `egg_desktop_entries_lookup_group (entries, group_name) == NULL' failed --- I was upgrading from 3.2 on MD10.1 desktop. Is there a fix for this or should I reinstall earlier version? Thanks in advance for help. -- John Bryant

[newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread john
Hello How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help. John

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread john
Paul wrote: Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance

Re: [newbie] KWallet question

2005-04-04 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
remove and edit entries in your forms, and passwords for that site. Also you can just re-enter the information at the login screen and it'll see the change and fix it. John -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread John Wilson
the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be appreciated. Eric Jackson Is there any other message from KDEinit about why it won't open Konsole? That might be helpful. I've not had that problem before. KDE has refused to open other programs but never that one. :) ttfn John

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip No, that's all it says. Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? Eric Jackson Follow the menu System|Configuration|Packaging|Remove

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-25 Thread John Layt
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 07:09, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a picture. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance, Paul There's always the Gimp, but for something easier try KolourPaint. John

Re: [newbie] Games recommendation

2005-03-23 Thread John Layt
to browse from letter 'C' onward later. Using the mcc KDE/GNOME doesnt show the games. Try just under the section Games? There's tonne of them in Contrib... Then there's also kdegames, with the killer app, solitaire :-) John

Re: [newbie] Recommended DVD's for K3b

2005-03-19 Thread John or Margaret Montgomery
always account for them by my stupidity. John Montgomery Vernon BC Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] New HP laptop with NTFS Partition and trying to dual boot

2005-03-10 Thread John Layt
) resize tool that does a more agressive job by moving files. Note also HP usually has an extra partition at the start of the disk for Windows restore, don't delete it unless you are sure you have a Windows CD you can re-install from (cause we all know that you'll have to eventually :-) John

Re: [newbie] Looking for program to organize quotations

2005-03-08 Thread John Layt
program would handle? You could try Bookcase or PyBliographer. Something like MySQL is way overkill for something like this, if you do want to go for a DIY database, try Rekall or Kexi. John. - Forget that new hard drive

Re: [newbie] KGPG

2005-03-01 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 17:09, Nigel Wilkinson wrote: --On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 22:53:34 + Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Monday, February 28, 2005 16:30:51 -0600 John Michael Schneiderman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see

Re: [newbie] Gnome 2.8 problem

2005-02-28 Thread john
. Don't know which one might have caused it. You might also check the gnome desktop forum at //gnomedesktop.org/ http://gnomedesktop.org/node?PHPSESSID=832faaac1ab9c3227723ebad9b767b83. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] KGPG

2005-02-28 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
I have created a gpg key, but sometimes when I see one of my E-mails in a post, it says that my signature wasn't valid. I have posted my keys on-line. -- Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply

Re: [newbie] Beware, Firefox is a spyware :)

2005-02-27 Thread John Drouhard
On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:23:52 -0500 Alex Lingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do we know that image is real? It's probobly just a joke. If MS Anti-spyware actually did mark Firefox as spyware, we would have heard alot on it by now. Unless anyone else can confirm it, it's a joke. It's a

[newbie] nvidia graphics

2005-02-26 Thread john
be appreciated in getting this working. I have checked for an os driver (Thac's rpms) but could not find one for the 2681-24 kernel. The new nvidia driver was supposed to remove the old driver but would there be anything else needing to be changed? Thanks John

Re: [newbie] windows-mandrake

2005-02-23 Thread John Layt
a TV card on your Linux box? If the card is supported under Linux, then either tvtime or kdetv will do the job. If the TV card is not supported by the Linux kernel, then no emulator will get it working. Encrypted cable is a different story. John

Re: [newbie] linux autocad

2005-02-22 Thread John Layt
and www.varicad.com, but http://www.tech-edv.co.at/lunix/CADlinks.html has a heap more. Some of these can be found in Mdk Contrib. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross

Re: [newbie] linux books

2005-02-22 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
On Monday 21 February 2005 23:55, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 09:35 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Tuesday 22 Feb 2005 18:33, Aron Smith wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 08:30 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi all Just wondering if there is any

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-21 Thread John Layt
=projectsGo.x=9Go.y=4 There's a heap more out there, I'm sure, just google... John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

Re: [newbie] which word processor

2005-02-21 Thread John Michael Schneiderman
On Monday 21 February 2005 11:32, Julie Sloan wrote: On Monday 21 February 2005 03:53 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 18:19, Dennis Myers wrote: Rosemary, in my OO.org if I click on the bullets icon on the tool bar after hitting enter to start a new paragraph, the

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-21 Thread John Wilson
On February 21, 2005 04:54 am, John Layt wrote: snip You might like to check out the following dedicated Realty web software: http://www.open-realty.org/ (demo at http://open-realty.org/demo/index.php) http://freerealty.rwcinc.net/ http://real-estate-management-software.org/ Xoops CMS

Re: [newbie] Home directory

2005-02-20 Thread john
no access to any kde files. User 3 is the new one and login is ok. The file /Home now only lists user 3. The files /home/user1 or /home/user2 have been removed. Hope this is less confusing. Thanks John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

[newbie] Home directory

2005-02-19 Thread john
logs/ files indicating errors and failures but I don't know how to use them to get these files back. Any help would be appreciated. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club

Re: [newbie] Default Browser.

2005-02-18 Thread john
email. I am downloading and installing the updates now for kde. Hopefully this will correct the issue, but is there anything else that I should look at and maybe change? Thanks for any help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
a simple 'Hello World' page it may be worth looking into. Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:33, David G Stevenson wrote: John Layt wrote: On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 10:33, BJ Tracy wrote: Hello All, PHP is a programming language that can generate HTML pages on the fly. Don't forget Perl/CGI! Also very easy to learn with the abundance of modules around. One

Re: [newbie] Web Page Design Software

2005-02-16 Thread John Layt
... John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https

Re: [newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-12 Thread John Rye
to rectify my shortfall, I merely intended to see if others on the list had encountered the same problem Cheers John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http

[newbie] Download DVD - MISSING FILES

2005-02-11 Thread John Rye
-15mdk.i586.rpm, rpm-rebuilder-0.20-1mdk.noarch.rpm, rpmlint-0.62-1mdk.noarch.rpm are certainly NOT on the DVD I obtained commercially. The supplier said quote We simply download the iso and burn them for distribution Anyone else noted this Sorry to have my day ruined Cheers John

Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?

2005-02-07 Thread John Wilson
hope it's going well and when you get a solution perhaps post it here so that others can see what you did and emulate. :-) ttfn John -- *** Composed on a 100% Microsoft Free Computer Guaranteed Virus Free Mandrake Linux 10.0 OE Registered

Re: [newbie] how to change the default font?

2005-02-05 Thread John Wilson
On February 4, 2005 09:23 am, Alan Ianson wrote: How can I change the default font from lat0x16 to default8x16? TIA! It might help if you told us which window manager you're using or if you're talking about the shell. Different answers for each one, Alan. :-) ttfn John

[newbie] nvidia card

2005-02-05 Thread john
to install and how to configure the xorg.conf file. Nvidia's driver worked ok with 10.0 and the xf86 system. I need the 1.0-6629 driver. Using the os drivers, do i install the nvidia glx and nvidia kernel? Any help would be greatly appreciated. john

Re: [newbie] nvidia card

2005-02-05 Thread john
listed in place of the load glx fille. When I rebooted, the white nvidia screen came up and everything loaded ok. Again thanks for the help. John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join

Re: [newbie] Snapshot of video

2005-02-02 Thread John Layt
, the video quality may be worse though. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com

Re: [newbie] MP3 jukebox application

2005-01-31 Thread John Layt
Mandrake menu under Multimedia/Sound, or you'll find them waiting for installation in the Software Manager under the Sound group. You may need to define Contribs as a source, and you will definitely need PLF to install lame to rip CD's to MP3. Cheers! John

Re: [newbie] KWallet

2005-01-30 Thread John Layt
to code to use it. Some links: http://docs.kde.org/en/3.3/kdeutils/kwallet/ http://www.staikos.net/~staikos/presentations/August2003/kwallet/ John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
-pcm-oss;} ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1-- /g alias eth0 via-rhine alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 I put them all on one line like you said and it still brokem. --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer wrote

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
-pcm-oss;} ; /sbin/modprobe -r --first-time --ignore-remove snd-emu10k1-- /g alias eth0 via-rhine alias sound-slot-0 snd-emu10k1 I put them all on one line like you said and it still brokem. --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:32 pm, John Retermeyer wrote

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-29 Thread John Retermeyer
Frans and thanks to Greg for all the help. Sound works and *sounds* GREAT. Even the ttl spdif input works! --- Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2005 14:56, John Retermeyer wrote: It still broken my file looks like this. # This file is autogenerated from

Re: [newbie] Removing KDE removes...everything?

2005-01-28 Thread John Layt
, but surely even you can't begrudge a few Mb :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com

Re: [newbie] dwnloads

2005-01-22 Thread john
will usually find pages of information - try it for example by putting install software in the search box - you'll be reading for weeks :-)) Have fun John Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Install third-party commercial software

2005-01-19 Thread John Layt
for installation. And best of all, its all free :-) If you really must run Windows software the best option is Win4Lin, followed by Crossover Office version of Wine, but they cost money. Just Google. John. - Forget that new hard

[newbie] New ATI Drivers Released

2005-01-18 Thread John Layt
As just seen on Slashdot, ATI yesterday released some new drivers for XOrg and XFree: http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-linux.html?type=linuxprodType=graphicprod=productsLINUXdriversubmit.x=2submit.y=6submit=GO! Hope this helps those of you with XOrg/ATI problems :-) John (NVidia

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-18 Thread John Retermeyer
Sorry it diodnot work. I typed in all what you said to type in and it broke. --- Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 17 January 2005 12:47 am, John Retermeyer wrote: alias sound-slot-0 audigy # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. --- But you don't have an audigy

Re: [newbie] still no DVD

2005-01-18 Thread John Layt
that it complains about region is a sign that libdvdcss is not working right. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp

Re: [newbie] New ATI Drivers Released

2005-01-18 Thread John Layt
thoughts on the issue. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz

Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?

2005-01-16 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:59, Rhein Christophe wrote: Ok I installed all the packages and still I get the error message. How can I know where the libdvdcss2 is installed on my machine? Where should it be locateted? Thank you Christophe Very strange. Should be in /usr/lib. John

[newbie] copying data dvd's

2005-01-16 Thread John Bowden
Hi all      Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable one? If K3b can't do it any ideas. -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going

Re: [newbie] copying data dvd's

2005-01-16 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 16 Jan 2005 18:33, Anders Lind wrote: On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:02:03 + John Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all      Can K3b copy DVDs ? I have a norton ghost image on a rewriteable DVD and I need to burn it onto a write once disk to free up the rewriteable

Re: [newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-16 Thread John Retermeyer
2005 04:52 am, John Retermeyer wrote: Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. post contents of /etc/modprobe.conf Anne, you have this card, don't you? -- /g

[newbie] How do I fix the sound in mdk 10.1 ?

2005-01-15 Thread John Retermeyer
Running mdk 10.1 sound card is a pci soundblaster sblive 5.1 already ran the hardrake tool for the sound card. all info (that I know of) is provided below, if need more please ask. Linux localhost 2.6.8.1-12mdk #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ unknown GNU/Linux

Re: [newbie] Hooray for 10.1 : NEC Versa E600

2005-01-14 Thread John Layt
less so. WHat do you have? John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm

Re: [newbie] Where is libdvdcss?

2005-01-14 Thread John Layt
-vcdx - from mdk xine-win32- from plf win32-codecs - from plf xanim-codecs - from plf I think that about covers it :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 10:50, M.Schild wrote: I run Mk 10 with an old printer HP Deskjet 690 that seems to have mecanical problems. I am looking for a easy to install, no problem printer with/without scanner. It doesn´t have to offer pro performance. as long as it installs easily. Any

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread John Layt
next time :-( John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https

Re: [newbie] How to mount External USB CDDrive in MAndrake 10.0

2005-01-12 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 15:29, John Layt wrote: Plug it in. If no icon appears, fire up MCC/Mount Points/Partitions and it should appear there, give it a mount point and mount it. Done. Note, using this second method, you loose the mount

Re: [newbie] Choosing a printer

2005-01-12 Thread John Bowden
On Wednesday 12 Jan 2005 21:08, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: On January 12, 2005 05:44, John Layt wrote: ... Short answer: HP or Epson, per your personal preference, as they have the best Linux support. Avoid Canon and Lexmark, as they have terrible support for Linux. ... Personally, I

[newbie] Quick Update Question

2005-01-11 Thread John Bowden
Hi list just a quick one. When updating from mandrake control centre should I close any progs that are running that are on the update list. Will it tell me if I need to reboot or restart x? -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was

Re: [newbie] winmodems

2005-01-11 Thread John Bowden
On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 19:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree get a router, and if you have more than one computer get a 4 port. Though be careful what they say on the boxes, our dsl router broke, so we went out to buy one, and ended up with something you put between your modem and

Re: [newbie] winmodems

2005-01-11 Thread John Layt
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:51, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jan 2005 19:29, John Bowden wrote: A bit off topic I know, but I run an old desktop box with a Linux firewall installed, that sits between my broad band modem (not adsl) and a 8 port switch It should also be said that many

Re: [newbie] winmodems

2005-01-10 Thread John Bowden
On Monday 10 Jan 2005 08:26, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 10 Jan 2005 01:19, Ana Paula Samodossi wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:09:10 -0300, Angus Auld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are unable to get your winmodem to work, there are hardware modems available, some reasonably priced.

Re: [newbie] RE: nVidia

2005-01-10 Thread John Layt
of the problems people grouse about over there are PEBKAC's resulting from not RTFM :-) That and the variety of NVidia hardware out there, not all card manufacturers are equal, some make great cards, others cut corners and they play up under Linux. Cheers! John

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 08:51, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which it would not boot. I took the new ram out and it

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:12, et wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 11:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Mikkel, I will try subscribing to the expert list and see if someone can help. Cy -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember if the standard install offers

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 13:41, et wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 03:51 am, Aron Smith wrote: On Saturday 08 January 2005 09:58 pm, Scott Wagner wrote: Hello Today I put a third hard drive and an additional 256MB of ram (there were already 2 256MB sticks) in my computer, after which

[newbie] Kmail Problem

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
Ok 2 Kmail questions probably not related. 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems to work ok. I click ok and the error msbox goes away. There is

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 17:23, Scott Wagner wrote: Thanks for all the responses. Well, stupidly, I tried (actually I succeeded) in putting a stick of DDR ram in an SDRAM slot. The system still worked after I took it out though. This morning I disconnected all the drives, took the ram out and

Re: [newbie] Kmail Problem

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 18:11, Greg Meyer wrote: On Sunday 09 January 2005 10:00 am, John Bowden wrote: 1, recently when I start kmail (when machine is first booted up) I get this message box KDEInit could not kontact-Kmail.sh. Kmail stil starts up and down loads any new mail and seems

Re: [newbie] Ideal camera connectivity

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
On Sunday 09 Jan 2005 22:38, JR wrote: I'm wondering which option is best to connect to my laptop to a digital camera (which hasnt been chosen yet). I thought that if I got one that supported mass storage, then it would be as simple as mounting my mp3 player. But someone else reccommended

Re: [newbie] Computer shuts off after a few seconds

2005-01-09 Thread John Bowden
arachnid). I replaced the fuse in the power supply and am still running. Be sure you use a fast acting fuse. Cheers John Montgomery Glad it worked out ok. I once found a mouse nest in an old ICL mini computer ! -- Guy Fualks - The only man to enter the houses of Parliament with honest

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 04:00, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Friday 07 January 2005 09:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a new Mandrake CD 10.1 Linux and I have XP already on my system. I installed a FAT32 Hard Drive on the Second IDE interface as a Slave since the CDROM is primary. Can

[newbie] Burning disks Q ?

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
Hi Gang     I use a program on that other o/s ( the one who's name should never be spoken ) that checks my CD DVD disks after burning them to check for errors , called CdCheck. It will do a basic read every sector, or crc, or compare check and even try to recover data on a damaged disk.

Re: [newbie] Back again...Booting slow

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 11:55, Rhein Christophe wrote: Hello, I'm back to the list after not knowing why I didn't access to the list a few months?!! I have a new ACER Aspire 1680 notebook since 2 weeks and I installed MDK 10.1 community. Of course I had Win XP installed on the machine and

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-08 Thread John Bowden
On Saturday 08 Jan 2005 19:11, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 07 Jan 2005 16:15, John Bowden wrote: On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor

Re: [newbie] batch res reduction

2005-01-07 Thread John Layt
. Try : man convert. It's a little awkward, but works. Kaj Haulrich. Or if you prefer a GUI, apps like Digikam, Kimdaba or PixiePlus have batch convert options that make calls to either ImageMagick or imlib. John

Re: [newbie] Re: Samba 3.0+ on 9.1

2005-01-07 Thread John Bowden
On Thursday 06 Jan 2005 17:13, Miroslav Skoric wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote (long ago): Has anyone upgraded the standard Samba 2.2.8 on MDK 9.1 to 3.0+? stephen kuhn - proprietor Hi Stephen, have you managed to do that? I also run 9.1 on a couple of server boxes and might need Samba too.

Re: [newbie] firewall

2005-01-07 Thread John Wilson
On January 6, 2005 08:53 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:34 pm, Miark wrote: On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:03:10 -0800, John wrote: I wish I could say that Mr Eastep was either helpful or nice. I've actually found him quite the arrogant, insulting boor. Particularly

Re: [newbie] acpi / upgrade kernel

2005-01-07 Thread John Layt
option will make it load. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz

Re: [newbie] Install Question

2005-01-07 Thread John Layt
will be left untouched. Welcome to the world of Linux, if you have any problems along the way, don't hesitate to ask (just provide lots of detail when you do :-) Cheers! John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-06 Thread John Layt
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:18, Mrugesh Karnik wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:37:31 +1100, John Layt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Inkscape: No to open or import Karbon14: No to open or import OpenOfiice.org Drawing: Not sure, but looks to be no to open or import Gimp: Nope, not there either

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-06 Thread John Layt
it :-( John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https

Re: [newbie] CorelDRAW

2005-01-05 Thread John Layt
to a Linux compatible format, sorry. Or you could track done a copy of the very very old and very very bad CorelDraw for Linux (quote: It's only good for converting .cdr files to something usable). John. - Forget that new

Re: [newbie] Laptop Installation problem

2005-01-05 Thread John Layt
in the HDD or filesystem config. Wait for Mikkel to get back to you, he's right on the money here. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-04 Thread John Layt
On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 07:44, John Layt wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:13, Steve Goodey wrote: John, Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any chance? Ooops. Yes, I am. I didn't realise

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 18:14, John Layt wrote: Making some progress on LinuxQuestions there's this page: http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=560 which points to http://digikam.free.fr/hotplug/howto.html but it appears a little outdated in places. I'll see what I can learn

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 21:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: John This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. Thank you. ed Cool. That's one less little mystery to solve, one more fix to document in the TWiki :-) Now, back to that KsCD problem... John

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:24, Anne Wilson wrote: On Monday 03 Jan 2005 10:55, Edward Holcroft wrote: John This worked perfectly first time with my Canon S45 Powershot. Add that camera to the TWiki page, please? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/CaMerasHW Anne Anne, I'm thinking

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-03 Thread John Layt
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 23:13, Steve Goodey wrote: John, Thanks for your suggestion. However, big problems with Digikam 0.7, although 0.6.2 was installed and worked OK. Are you running KDE 3.3 by any chance? Ooops. Yes, I am. I didn't realise Thac had compiled them against 3.3 rather than 3.2

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
for which are found in /etc/hotplg and /etc/dynamic, I know how to change the defaults for CD's and DVD's, but I can't find anything for the defaults for cameras scanners. John. P.S. Which versions of Mandrake and Digikam are you using

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 20:09, Edward Holcroft wrote: John I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and Digikam 0.6.1. I looked at the files you refer to but can't see what to edit, but will play around a little and see what google has to say. In response to Martin, I did not set my PC up manually to detect my

Re: [newbie] Photo Album Software.

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
here for Digikam 0.7 which is THE photo album for KDE. You can get RPMs for it from Thac at: http://rpm.nyvalls.se/kde10.1.html Make sure you install the Digikam Plugins and Kipi Plugins to get all the extra features. John. P.S. There's a 0.6.2 version that comes with Mdk10.1, but 0.7

Re: [newbie] Any 'Wine' expert out there?

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
most annoying about XP :-) Then it was just a case of having her visit one day, having to pop out for half an hour, and leaving patience up on the screen :-) John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead

Re: [newbie] Digikam

2005-01-02 Thread John Layt
to find out how to change this, but it sure is dense going and there's no obvious solution yet. John. - Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate

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