[newbie] other free isp's

2000-04-09 Thread magick
wondering if there are any other free isp's other then freewwweb as they no longer have a local dial up number in my area (and even when they did it never worked ) To The Future Of Linux Together Let's Crush Microsoft And Take BAck Our Desktops GET THE BEST FREE INTERNET ACCESS *

[newbie] OS/2 and Beos

2000-04-09 Thread magick
sorta off topic here but arn't os/2 and beos linux/unix clones adn where can you download os/2 or can ya had Beos and it wouldn't find my hardware modem can ya believe it found my winmodem with no trouble but my hardware modem dodn't exist LOL MicroSoft Get's Hit With Anti Trust And Bill

[newbie] Uproar Doesn't Support Linux

2000-04-09 Thread magick
I know Off topic Again But I wanted To Let YTou Guys Hear The Most stupidest thing i have ever heard i have been going to uproar (it's a free game sight) and had trouble with linux so ichecked there support page and what do i find linux as one of your choices for an o/s i sent a report for

Re: [newbie] help to all

2000-04-09 Thread magick
only real problem i have is upgrading x to 4.0 keeps crashing my gui and i have to keep reinstalling linux - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 6:23 PM Subject: [newbie] help to all I've posted

Re: [newbie] is it wine

2000-04-09 Thread magick
wine is the windows emulator that i suposed to be abled to run winblows progams mind i have yet to get it to work - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Mandrake Linux" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Linux_Admin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 6:29 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] installing ICQ

2000-04-09 Thread magick
you should get it in rpm format it's alot easier - Original Message - From: "Zulfiqar Naushad" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 1:00 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing ICQ What type of ICQ did you download? The general rule for unzipping files is.

Re: [newbie] help to all

2000-04-09 Thread magick
ch is i586it practically messes up everything. this could be your problem... magick wrote: only real problem i have is upgrading x to 4.0 keeps crashing my gui and i have to keep reinstalling linux - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: &qu

Re: [newbie] X11R6-contrib

2000-04-08 Thread magick
i know about xfree96.org but they don not have rpms they don't deal with distribution specific files and i am looking for the rpms that have those files in them - Original Message - From: "Eric MC DECLERCK" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 10:46 AM

Re: [newbie] How to avoid starting X ?

2000-04-08 Thread magick
try running the install again and this time choose custom as far as i know recomended always sets x to start up imediatley after boot but custom gives you the choice - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 8:57 PM Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] hi

2000-04-06 Thread magick
If Ya DOn't Mind Send It Here To Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Tony" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] hi send me your email address - Original Message - From: "jackie" [EMAIL

[newbie] re: X Won't Start Helppppppppppp!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-30 Thread magick
. The last time I downloaded the binaries from XFree86.org I had many problems also. Waiting for RPMS is the best answer. Luckily they are out. -- Original Message -- From: "magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:45:18 -0500 no i didn't

[newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really don't want to have to do a reinstall of mandrake if someone could help i would appreciate it

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! magick wrote: i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep getting explicit use of the kill command or server shutdown how can i get x running again i really

Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2000-03-27 Thread magick
- Original Message - From: magick To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] X won't Start Help! YES i have tried startx obviously if i can sy that it gives me the error explicit use

Re: [[newbie] X wont Start Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

2000-03-27 Thread magick
"magick" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - i recentley downloaded and installed XFree86 4.0 and now x won't start i keep gettin

[newbie] other browsers

2000-03-26 Thread magick
anyone know of any other really good web browsers for linux other then netscape ? oh yeah not text based ones like lynx either thanks all -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever

[newbie] x 4.0 won't start

2000-03-26 Thread magick
i installed xf86 4.0 and now when i try to start x it won't start i het error explicit use of the kill commnad or server shutdown how can i fix this ?

Re: [newbie] I did it! :)

2000-03-25 Thread magick
i was unable to get kicq running it wouldn't let me install the icqlib and the kdelib and kdeupdate i think it was and i din't like licq i use kxicq and it runs great On Sat, 25 Mar 2000, you wrote: P.S. Any suggestions re: ICQ versions for Linux? Kicq? Licq or KXicq. Both provide

[newbie] freeciv

2000-03-25 Thread magick
anyone know how to run freeciv i installed it from there mandrake rpm and everthing went fine but know i don't what the executable file is to actually run it anyone know ? -- to the future of linux together let's crush microsoft and free our desktops forever

Re: [newbie] Problems with PPP Setup.

2000-03-24 Thread magick
what kind of modem are you using are you sure it's not a win modem if it is you won't get it to work check to see if linux has detected your modem as most pci modems are win modems as root hit drakconf the hardware settings and let it try to detect your hardware in the list it shows see if you

[newbie] 7.02 and xf86 4

2000-03-24 Thread magick
i am curious i see alot of people claim to be running mandrake 7.02 but i have been to there ftp sight and several mirros and it shows no listing of 7.02 it shows 7.0 and then theres the iso 7.0-2 witch is just 7.0 doe s7.02 exist and where

Re: [newbie] Hi...

2000-03-23 Thread magick
x86 is short for the intel 86 platform like 386 486 586 and 686 so instead of writning linux for intel 386 through 786 they just right x86 srta like win blows and isntead of writing windows 95 and windows 98 they write win9x. On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, you wrote: I am going to download star

[newbie] wine errors

2000-03-23 Thread magick
i am trying to run wine but whenever i start it i get the errors invalid path c:\windows\Profile\Administrator\ for profile directory and can't load win95 user-registery c:\windows\Profile\Adminstrator\user.dat check wine.conf section, {wine},value Profile why won't this run and what profile

Re: [newbie] Icons on the start of Mandrake 7.0

2000-03-23 Thread magick
not sure if this will help but try adding another user witha diferent nic other then your first name i have three total users on mine root male with top hat magick male and pinkpanther female magick is the nick but obviously not my first name you can try it no guarntees though On Thu, 23

[newbie] qt and kde and mesa

2000-03-22 Thread magick
when trying toinstall qt-2.02 it wants specific commands put in .usr and .lib i believe how do i enter the commands in thoses files as well when trying to install kde support i keep getting conflicts with other files and finally when trying to install mesa i get dependency errors saying that