Re: [newbie] Modem Config!

2001-08-09 Thread s
I'm going to after this message. See if > changes have been changed back again. > > I'll check email back in a few. Hope this isn't getting to out of hand! > It took me a week to get my modem to work when I first tried out any linux! Then almost another week to get sound. :-) I had to wait until 2.4.x for graphics acceleration (mobo issue). So, this is a learning process. :-) -s

Re: [newbie] Modem Config!

2001-08-08 Thread s
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention, when you type your ioport portion of the setserial command, place an 0x (that's a zero) in front of it. For example here's mine: setserial /dev/ttyS4 uart 16550A port 0xb800 irq 5 -s hope all this works for ya.

Re: [newbie] Modem Config!

2001-08-08 Thread s
nder "Communication Controllers," it is listed as an > "unknown device." It still gives the I/O Area and Interrupt though. That's it. > > Under "Connectors" is listed Com1 and Com2 only! Com3 will show up once you associate your modem to it. > > ??? -s

Re: [newbie] Reply-To ? Where Does It Go?

2001-08-08 Thread s
It's not just star office. I set up a rule in kmail to fix this, but I don't know if star office has a rules config. If so, just make a rule that states anything with newbie in the subject or from newbie, set reply to as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 11:36 am,

Re: [newbie] Hard-Drive Problems after using Linux

2001-08-08 Thread James S Bear
Last time I said this, a lot of people yelled at me, but download a utility from the drive manufacturer and do a low-level format. jim Quoting Greg Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not sure if I just have really bad luck when it comes to harddrives, but > it seems that every time I install any f

Re: [newbie] YahooMessenger

2001-08-08 Thread s
Yeah, I tried it out. I didn't have any trouble. What is the specifics of your problem? -s On Wednesday 08 August 2001 12:18 am, you wrote: > Hello! > > I found a version of YahooMessenger for Linux, at: > > http://messenger.yahoo.com/messenger/download/unix.html >

Re: [newbie] How to turn off applets in KDE?

2001-08-07 Thread s
Ooo, Ooo , that's an easy one. Just right click the little dimpled 'bar' in front of the applet and click remove. :-) -s On Tuesday 07 August 2001 05:48 pm, you wrote: > I installed Kscore and Newsticker applets into my Kpanel and I don't like > them there, how do I remove them? lol

Re: [newbie] StarOffice 5.1 not working with LM8

2001-08-07 Thread s
; >___ > > > cp -rf /home//.kde/share/applnk/staroffice_51 /home//.kde/share/applnk-mdk/ -s > > >Thank you > > > > > > > > >Ebrahim Elmahdy > > > > You are most welcome. Want to try your question again?

[newbie] portmap services

2001-08-07 Thread James S Bear
One of my machines, an AMD 1.2 ghz processor box with 256 mb of ram, a SCSI drive, two NICs, and an optical logitech mouse(It's just fun to give specs, okay?)Has problems shutting down. It always hangs on Shutting Down Portmap Services. I've got a hunch it has to do with two NICs. Regardless,

Re: [newbie] Intel 810 accelerated i810 X server

2001-08-07 Thread James S Bear
Before you hear what I have to say, I would take it to heart that graphics acceleration has never been an extremely high priority on my end. I've got two machines with an 810 video card and four with an 815(I believe is basically the same). When I first installed mandrake, the first thing I w

Re: [newbie] everybody

2001-08-06 Thread s
k* to get it to work. -s On Monday 06 August 2001 09:29 am, you wrote: > Has anyone out there had much luck using everybody? > I cannot seem to get it to connect. > any tips welcome

Re: [newbie] Mandrake and pci/ide adapter cards

2001-08-06 Thread James S Bear
I don't believe it would be a hassle to put the web page on the ide drive, but the reason scsi's are expensive is because they are faster. They have, in effect, a processor of their own with their own memory and are much better at translating data. If your web server is going to have a lot of tr

Re: [newbie] Win2k

2001-08-06 Thread James S Bear
I would think, and I really hope somebody corrects me if I'm wrong, but I am confident that you could install W2K, without touching HDB, and then reinstall linux without formatting anything and it should get you back and running without messing with any of your files. There is probably an easier

Re: [newbie] net config

2001-08-05 Thread s
You can set up ip-masq and forwarding in Connection sharing in the Mandrake Control center. This is a real good samba howto, the one I used: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/connect/csamba.html -s On Sunday 05 August 2001 11:42 am, you wrote: > Hi... > I want to configure my mand

Re: [newbie] sound

2001-08-04 Thread s
Check in kde control center (if you're using kde) to see if the option for arts server is checked to start at boot. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 04:04 am, you wrote: > Hi! I'm haveing trouble with sound. I am useing mandrake 7.2 and have an > sb16 sound card. I have configured

Re: [newbie] Increasing Print Darkness

2001-08-04 Thread s
QT-cups. Increase the dpi. -s On Saturday 04 August 2001 10:14 am, you wrote: > How do I change the darkness of printed documents? > TIA > > Dan

Re: [newbie] PMFirewall?

2001-08-01 Thread s
firewall configurations. -s On Wednesday 01 August 2001 01:14 pm, you wrote: > Hi all =) > > Is there a way to use PMFirewall on an LM8 server? If not, is there > something similar that I should be using for firewall software? > > Thanx a bunch, > > E

Re: [newbie] UnrealTournament

2001-08-01 Thread s
No, nothing special. Just ran the installer and used a windows cd. Maybe delete the folder and try again. You might try downloading the installer/binaries from another source. Maybe your copy is corrupted. -s On Wednesday 01 August 2001 10:16 am, you wrote: > Hello > > Ive

RE: [newbie] win95 gone

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
ood > in certain circumstances. > > If you are going to stick with Linux and get rid of Windows im sure that > the standard format in the Mandrake install process will do the job just > fine. > > Just a thought, correct me if im wrong.. >-- Jamie >

[newbie] virtual hosting

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
My apache web server is working fine. We are a public school and we have a domain issued by the state. So, this works great. I set my server name to www, and then my web page comes up with www.domain.com(or whatever). It's accessible and everything is grand. However, now I would like to set up

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Hey--and does the one that says something about hi, i'd like your advice about this come with a file attached in *.pif format? If so, I think I got it. Maybe I have had viruses and just didn't know it. What does this virus do? jim Quoting Judith Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan wrote: > >> ju

Re: [newbie]

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
My logitech optical wheel mice work fine. I had them on on install, but I think using harddrake they are easily configurable. Quoting Barry Premeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Seeun William Umboh wrote: > > > > I have got LM8.0 and Logitech Mouse Wheel Optical. Everything is working > > great but t

Re: [newbie] Apache help

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Quoting Jon Doe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok, I have got apache running, put in my own index.html and it works! But how > > do I link to files I want to make availible? I made a directory > /var/www/media but if I link a file that is there, I just get an error > message when i click on the link,

Re: [newbie] microsoft gone

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Children's software is a good reason to leave w95 on your box. jim Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I am happy to say that win95 is gone. Now My wife used the computer last > night. She complained about the fonts in netscape so I will have to fix this. > I will also have to find out howto ajust the t

Re: [newbie] X server troubles

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
I don't think it's that your questions are stupid or that this is volunteer work, I think it's that the people who would respond are not exactly sure how to solve your problem, so they haven't responded. I know that's true in my case. jim Quoting Gonzalix le Druide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all

Re: [newbie] win95 gone

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
If you've already got linux installed, and windows is in the mnt directory, right-click on it and say 'delete'(you might have to click it, too). If linux isn't installed, I'd do a low-level format and get everything off and then install linux. If linux is installed and windows isn't in the mnt

Re: [newbie]: Virus talk and kmail, direct connection

2001-08-01 Thread James S Bear
Maybe I am under-paranoid or under-informed or something, but all this talk of viruses is getting to me as well. I see the time spent worrying about viruses as being better spent backing up data or playing with kids or something. People spend more time and money (not as accurate in the linux wor

Re: [newbie] Quake 2

2001-07-31 Thread s
I tried to play quake2, and it wouldn't use my video card. The howto spoke only of voodoos. It looked like really bad software rendering. What kind of video card are you guys using? And if other than voodoo, how did you get it to use it? -s On Tuesday 31 July 2001 06:01 pm, you

[newbie] lm_sensors

2001-07-28 Thread s
Could someone refresh my memory as to the directory and command to start setting up lm_sensors (gkrellm)? I've done it a half dozen times, but I can't remember to save my life this time. (installed new hdd - so starting over). -s

[newbie] webmin

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
I've got my webserver running, sorta, but I am really not a command prompt type of person. Can anybody tell me how to run webmin? I tried typing it from the command line, but it tells me from a browser go to http://localhost:1/ Okay, I did that. In Konqueror, now it tells me that connectio

[newbie] webmin, portmappin

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
WEll, because I have been a windows person for a couple of years and old habits are hard to break, I rebooted to see if that would help my webmin dilemma. When it went to reboot, on its way down, it froze at the portmapping shutdown. I don't know why, but got a hunch they are related. When th

Re: [newbie] Strange X problem I have never had before. (damn thing crashed again.)

2001-07-27 Thread James S Bear
I've had this same problem. The only way I've found to cure it is to do a low-level format and start all over. This brings to my mind a question: How efficient is the formatting of ext2? Compared to a dos format, it takes next to no time. I've always been taught that haste makes waste, but I

Re: [newbie] Sound card drivers

2001-07-26 Thread s
mands: ./configure, make, su, , make install Then you will probably/maybe have to put something in your /etc/modules.conf file, but the INSTALL should tell you. -s BTW, if you want to copy something, use cp. ex.: cp /mnt/floppy/au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz /home/// If you want to copy a directory, use -r, ex.:

[newbie] two usb devices: conflict?

2001-07-26 Thread s
the scanner? Makes one think some kind of conflict, but rooting around in the /proc/bus/usb directory is a humbling experience. :-) Thanks in advance as always, -s

[newbie] locked drives

2001-07-26 Thread James S Bear
This sounds like a lie, but it really is not. I expressed my sadness about the fact that I filtered some of you intelligent linuxers out of my e-mail. Then, I posted a few questions and have yet to receive a response. I am sure somebody did, but Ifiltered them out. For this reason, I have been

Re: [newbie] ISP

2001-07-25 Thread s
I use bellsouth for dialup and adsl. Works great, only complaint is with their ng service. Of course that's the southern/southeastern US, yaw'. :-) -s On Wednesday 25 July 2001 04:04 pm, you wrote: > Right now I have Juno as my dial up ISP. I tried connecting to Juno >

[newbie] locked drives

2001-07-25 Thread James S Bear
I've got something that is really starting to irritate me. It seems like quite often, for whatever reason I just don't know, that my floppy and my CDRom drive gets 'locked' and I cannot access it. I go through and do my things like mount and unmount it and delete stuff out of fstab and eventuall

Re: [newbie] root user is no-no?

2001-07-25 Thread James S Bear
I just use root. In fact, my four year old uses root. Of course, once my wife deleted /etc, but never did anything happen that a simple reinstallwouldn't cure. jim Quoting Robert MacLean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > I've seen every Linux book and manual and doc say that using the > machi

Re: [newbie] HP USB scanjet

2001-07-25 Thread s
Depends on which one you have. Check here: http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html -s On Wednesday 25 July 2001 08:11 am, you wrote: > hi, is there any way to make an USB Scanjet work under Mandrake Linux? > Its provided driver and software set are only for windows that I

Re: [newbie]Using RPM

2001-07-24 Thread Mr S Ganesan
pl go to software.mandrake.com for all your needs! -- S.Ganesan Principal Scientist Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering Berasia Road Bhopal 462038, INDIA Phone: 0755-730986 (O) 0755-732105 (R) Fax:0755-734016 Email<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Web Address:http://www.ciae.nic.in

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-24 Thread s
le service and get all my movie channels? -s

Re: [newbie] Sound Card and Printers

2001-07-24 Thread James S Bear
this subject. Quoting Alwan Sadagopan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yeah the printers do have an IP address. > > -alwan > > James S Bear wrote: > > >Do the printers have an IP address? > >Quoting Alwan Sadagopan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>Hi, > &g

Re: [newbie] qwest.net and dsl lan setup question

2001-07-24 Thread James S Bear
You know, I am sure this is what they said and it may be true, but if that external dsl modem costs more, I would get the PCI card. I think the problem isthat they don't want to do any supporting of anything other than windows, but other than that VIA chipset, I haven't come across anything that

[newbie] httpd, proftpd, squid, innd

2001-07-24 Thread James S Bear
Okay, I am still a bad kid, but I have another question. On my box, httpd, proftpd, squid, and innd do not start. They cannot start at boot or using the commands. I believe the problem is that my DNS server isn't working--at least correctly. In North Dakota, all the schools are connected in

Re: [newbie] Configure, make and make install MPlayer problems

2001-07-23 Thread s
On Monday 23 July 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: > s wrote: > > I been using if for months. The lastest vs. (.17) was so easy too. I've > > been reading about others having trouble, but it was da...da... da: > > movies for me. I've run out of ideas to assist these indi

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA driver install. - command not found error

2001-07-22 Thread s
make is an app (for lack of a better word) found on the cds. Install it. make-3.79.1-5mdk -s On Saturday 21 July 2001 08:06 pm, you wrote: > When I run 'make install' I get the following output: > > make: cc: Command not found > make: *** [nv.o] Error 127 > > Co

Re: [newbie] zip files

2001-07-22 Thread s
You should be able to unzip it from a terminal. The command is real complicated tho: unzip :-) (zip is another app you can find on your cds. Install it.) -s On Saturday 21 July 2001 05:59 pm, you wrote: > When I click on a zip file KDE opens it up in Archiver and then Archiver > gi

Re: [newbie] kernel

2001-07-21 Thread s
s own partition. An operation is that is easier that kernel compiling. -s On Saturday 21 July 2001 02:49 pm, you wrote: > i installed lnx4win... dou know if i can update the kernel? > - Original Message - > From: s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: [newbie] Quick question...

2001-07-20 Thread s
http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A -s On Friday 20 July 2001 11:01 pm, you wrote: > > Hey gang, > > What was that web address for the small program that checks if the NVidia > tarball was installed correctly? > Thanks, > > John

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 11:09 pm, you wrote: > On Saturday 21 July 2001 01:51, s wrote: > > On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: > > > On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: > > > > ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not,

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 12:56 pm, you wrote: > On Friday 20 July 2001 14:51, s wrote: > > ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to > > the qt/gtk thing. > > Ummm, Yes, if you have KDE installed on the machine. If you do not, then >

Re: [newbie]will Konqueror run on a gnome desktop?

2001-07-20 Thread s
ummm, good question. I don't know. I'm guessing not, possibly due to the qt/gtk thing. I don't use gnome, and have maybe spent all of 5 minutes total looking at it (not my type ). Type /usr/bin/konqueror into a terminal to see. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:09 am, y

Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems

2001-07-20 Thread s
You can use either, but you're probably better off with the Mandrake ones. -s On Friday 20 July 2001 08:58 am, you wrote: > Another small question, do i have to use a special Mandrake kernel or > can i just use any old run of the mill sources? > > >--

[newbie] dial-up

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
Not only do I have two NIC cards on my machine, but I also have a 56K modem. Into my network, I have a T1 line. How can I configure my machine so that I can dial into it and get the internet service? Ignorance is underrated

[newbie] MAC addresses

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
How can I figure out what my MAC addresses (I have two NIC cards) are on my machine through mandrake? jim Ignorance is underrated

[newbie] Printing

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
I've got a printer on the network with an IP address. How do I print to it? It is an HP color laserjet 4500 N. thannks jim Ignorance is underrated

Re: [newbie] One boot off and one boot on

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
to set up multi boot from within linux? Obviously I would prefer > that win2000 does it for me so that I can then get into linux quickly and > start to learn all these clever linux things :) It's a chicken and egg > situation if win2000 won't 'do the dual bit' for me. > > Help appreciated > Sorry if the above is a bit garbled. > > TIA > > Dave S. > idea.list > > > > Ignorance is underrated

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-20 Thread James S Bear
Java works fine. In fact, Opera was the first browser to support java 2, as far as I know, but I know it was before netscape or explorer Quoting Dave Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Opera 5 for Linux works great for me, although I think Java do

Re: [newbie] Kernel Probems

2001-07-20 Thread s
together after reading about a baker's dozen howtos. I rarely have any trouble. (2.4.6-4mdk not withstanding ) -s On Friday 20 July 2001 03:44 am, you wrote: > Hiya, im hoping there's a simple solution to my problem, its probably > just something stupid i've done during

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-20 Thread s
On Friday 20 July 2001 03:23 am, you wrote: > Links is *the* best text-only browser out there, bar none! Well, won't argue with you there. I just spent about an hour playing with it and the mouse support is handy dandy! I didn't realize it had that. :-) -s

[newbie] Problem loading MKL 8.0

2001-07-19 Thread Mr S Ganesan
DEar Sir, I have a PIII adaptec AIC7896 SCSI adapter on my machine which is used for emails. I have not been able to load the MKL8.0 at all and it says no driver found for AIC7896 and simply hangs without proceeding further. How do I coax it to take the driver from the CD? -- S.Ganesan Principal

Re: [newbie] Creating a link to application on the Gnome desktop

2001-07-19 Thread s
If you can't find the launcher, can't you do a ln -s /usr/bin/whatever /home/you/Desktop/whatever I used to do it that way a while back, but haven't in a while. You don't get to choose a perty icon. ;-) -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 06:33 pm, you wrote: > Hi all, > &g

Re: [newbie] kernel

2001-07-19 Thread s
If you installed the source, it's in /usr/src/linux If you're needing to configure some support in for something, you'll have to go thru the entire process. http://www.desktop-linux.net/kernel.htm is one howto and google can find many more. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 07:0

Re: [newbie] Best browser for linux?

2001-07-19 Thread s
dern time you open it. If you like text only lynx is neato in a terminal (I like to play with it sometimes and it's handy if your X won't boot - so remember it for future reference), and then there's links. -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: > Hello: I have Ma

Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX

2001-07-19 Thread s
You need to be root first, then the command is: sh nv_check.sh -s On Thursday 19 July 2001 01:50 pm, you wrote: > I d/l'ed that but I'm a newbie and I don't know how to run it, when I try > a, ./nv_check.sh from Konsole I get the following error message: > &g

Re: [newbie] GeForce2 MX

2001-07-19 Thread s
Yeah, here's an url to a little script that I just love. It checks to make sure the nvidia drivers are loaded, and that you have edited your xf86config file properly, but most importantly (and conveniently) checks for conflicting mesa files. http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia

Re: [newbie] MDK 8.0 Frequent update and NVIDIA drivers

2001-07-18 Thread s
Just reinstall them (tarballs) and edit your xf86config-4 file again. Anytime you change the kernel, you have to redo the nvidia drivers. They are still compatible, or at least I've read they are (don't know from personal experience). -s On Wednesday 18 July 2001 11:31 pm, you

Re: [newbie] Joysticks

2001-07-18 Thread s
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 03:07 am, you wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 05:04, s wrote: > > On Monday 16 July 2001 09:03 pm, you wrote: > > > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 02:25, s wrote: > > > > Can anyone brief me on the set up of a joystick? > > > >

Re: [newbie] RE: Use of Linux (in public schools)

2001-07-17 Thread James S Bear
We're a very, very small school but have about 1 machine for every 2 kids K- 12. Last year, all of our PC's were dual boot, winders and redhat. This year, I switched to Mandrake and our new machines are straight mandrake. Dropping winders on the new ones saved enough cash to buy another PC.

Re: [newbie] oh sh*t! /usr full....

2001-07-17 Thread s
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 04:57 am, you wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2001 10:42, s wrote: > > Heep. I just notice my /usr partition is full! > Here is what I tried > back up the contents of /usr/local ( I am assuming the bulk of your bulk is > in there) > make a n

[newbie] oh sh*t! /usr full....

2001-07-17 Thread s
var? Will this work? I also have about 7 gigs on hdb that I could copy stuff in /var to, but will it reboot to copy it back? Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas; please? TIA, -s

Re: [newbie] cool online vote results for mandrake...

2001-07-16 Thread s
I've seen polls on several sites and Mandrake is always the favorite. :-) -s On Monday 16 July 2001 01:58 pm, you wrote: > http://www.linux.ie/polls/pollresults.php?recount_pollId=1 > > makes good reading... > > > rgds > > Frank

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1

2001-07-12 Thread s
LOL. :-D -s On Wednesday 11 July 2001 06:44 pm, you wrote: >And, until I get my new USB > crystal ball configured, that's the best that I can do. > Regards, Carroll

Re: [newbie] Linux app for MSN Messenger.

2001-07-12 Thread s
e windows version of MSN Messenger, you must use your hotmail email > address (M$ has this thing called a "passport" which is used for MSN, and a > slew of other M$-related things). Without entering your hotmail email > address, you aren't able to log into M$'s servers t

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1

2001-07-12 Thread s
Ooops. Nope. Thanks for the heads up. -s On Thursday 12 July 2001 07:57 am, you wrote: > Have a read of the latest Mandrake Cooker Weekly News (July 9): > > http://mt.mandrake.org/mcwn/ > > Here they say: > > "Mandrake Linux release 8.1 (scheduled for october 2001)

Re: [newbie] Install problem (again)

2001-07-12 Thread s
how big it was after). I'm fairly sure there's enough room on hda for the backup of hdb. So I could probably just do it from it's present location, you think? Thanks for the help, -s

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.1

2001-07-11 Thread s
there's been no announcements, but I read some speculation of about sept or oct. -s On Tuesday 10 July 2001 04:42 pm, you wrote: > Just planning migration timetables for some of my machines and wondering > what (if any) schedule is planned for 8.1? > > thanks, > > ::mark

Re: [newbie] PPPOE/Roaring Penguin/Network card

2001-07-11 Thread s
to work, but the one straight from the site connected the first try. Just a thought. (Also as a side note, I couldn't get it to work with any of the number of installs of 7.2. Don't know why, kept getting errors. I had to use redhat for my server/router until 8.0 came out.) -s On Tues

Re: [newbie] Something that actually woprks for once

2001-07-08 Thread s
Try StarOffice (free), or WordPerfect Office (not). -s On Sunday 08 July 2001 09:46 pm, you wrote: > > isnt there anything applicationwise that actuially works? > > kspread and > > kghost sucks >

Re: [newbie] CDwriting questions

2001-07-05 Thread s
Thanks everyone for clarifying those things for me. :-) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 07:32 pm, you wrote: > I have some questions about this cd writing thing. (Relatively new to > this). > > TIA, > -s

[newbie] great looking theme

2001-07-04 Thread s
For those of you who like themes for you kde, I found one that looks really great. I love what it does for the menu(s). Of course it's at themes.org. Eazel-like-2.x-Style.tar.gz Anybody got the transparent menus thing going on yet? -s

Re: [newbie] Net Install Problems

2001-07-04 Thread s
h rpm.) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 05:47 pm, you wrote: > That's OK. I'm now trying to burn a ISO image and see if that works. > > Aaron >

Re: [newbie]Odd KMail Problem

2001-07-04 Thread s
Will they rebuild themselves? (ie: can I still view the messages indexed there if .index deleted?) -s On Wednesday 04 July 2001 08:02 am, you wrote: > Problems like hangs and crashes in Kmail can often be fixed by deleting the > *.index files in your ~/Mail directory. >

Re: [newbie] fonts in StarOffice

2001-07-03 Thread s
Do your show up in SO? None of the windows fonts show up here? Is there some surgery necessary? -s On Tuesday 03 July 2001 08:39 pm, you wrote: > have you tried importing all the fonts from windows if you've got a dual > boot system?

Re: [newbie]Odd KMail Problem

2001-07-03 Thread s
kmail to crash. Can't really uninstall and reinstall, huh? Maybe we should upgrade to the new beta (or is it still alpha)? -s On Tuesday 03 July 2001 07:32 pm, you wrote: > Dear All, I had some display problems and with your help I was able to > fix them however a new problem devel

Re: [newbie] Scanner Epson Perfection 1240U

2001-07-03 Thread s
uct= 0x0103 # Note: 0x0103 is Perfection 610 (mine) ;) Hope that helps. -- Joan Tur. Ibiza - Spain" -s On Tuesday 03 July 2001 04:26 am, you wrote: > Hi, > My scanner Epson Perfection 1240U (USB) does not work on my Mandrake 8.0 > despite it is in the list of supported

Re: [newbie] 3com 509 on Mandrake 8.0

2001-07-02 Thread s
I have an isa 3c509something, and I had to assign irq 11 to legacy (or isa) in the bios before it would work. You could try that. -s On Monday 02 July 2001 10:40 am, you wrote: > Hi, > I have my computer working fine with Mandrake 7.1. > I re-installed Mandrake 8.0 and I could not ge

Re: [newbie] alternative kernel 2.2.19, 2.4.3 linus install and after

2001-07-01 Thread s
On Sunday 01 July 2001 09:50 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2001 22:15, s wrote: > > I was wondering if someone could tell me how to load 8.0 from the > > cds using 2.2.19 kernel. > > On install you go to expert mode, then at individual package > selection you clic

Re: [newbie] Installing nVidia Drivers For TNT2 M64

2001-06-29 Thread s
Under the Section 'Modules', type: Load "glx" then under the Section 'Device', change "nv" to "nvidia" Then go to http://mail.lokigames.com/~heimdall/nvidia/?S=A and download the nv_check.sh file. Run it in a terminal (by typing: sh n

Re: [newbie] IDE CD Writer

2001-06-28 Thread s
ppropriate SCSI device The first part is simple in /etc/lilo.conf or in drakboot (Control Center Boot Config) make sure you have this in the append hdc=ide-scsi if for example it is hdc. Now in /dev you need to do the following cd /dev && rm cdrom2 && ln -s scd0 cdrom2 if, fo

Re: [newbie] help

2001-06-28 Thread s
lol With what? Are you drowning, being mugged by hoodlums, your building burning down around you, or perhaps with Mandrake? -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 09:06 am, you wrote:

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 - Installing from the net. Frezzes.

2001-06-28 Thread s
the jury's not in on if ns 6.1 will replace 4.77 as my backup). -s On Thursday 28 June 2001 06:18 pm, you wrote: > > I have downloaded an executable "netscape-installer" that connect to > > internet to install Netscape6. It try to download 11 files or parts. But > >

Re: [newbie] Problem with su

2001-06-23 Thread s
I just went thru the same thing last week. Some nice gents from the expert list told me to look in /etc/security/limits.conf and comment out the line about fsize at the bottom. -s On Saturday 23 June 2001 09:17 pm, you wrote: > Hi > > I'm having a problem using the su comman

[newbie] Anybody else being icmped to death?

2001-06-23 Thread s
ew blocked ips in about a month!) Any new forms of the chkrootkits or trojan detection scripts out there? (I'm not as up on linux security as I should be). TIA, -s

Re: [newbie] Install Questions

2001-06-22 Thread Mr S Ganesan
DEAr Sir, I have a curious problem. I loaded MKL7.2 on my system and was working properly. It has two SCSI harddisks of 8GB each with AIC Adaptec 7896 adapter and twin PIII500 processors. When I tried to load MKL 8.0 on the same it stops at loading aic7xxx and nothing happens for a long time and

Re: [newbie] wordperfect dependency

2001-06-22 Thread s
I don't know of one that needs to be upgraded, but there is one that needs to be present. It requires libc5. libc5-1.0-2.i386.rpm is the one I use. You can find it rpmfind. -s On Friday 22 June 2001 03:25 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > I am in the process of installing WP

Re: [newbie] Nvidia drivers.

2001-06-22 Thread s
not go to nvidia.com and get the tarballs. -s On Friday 22 June 2001 05:18 am, you wrote: > Hi List. > > I used software update and updated the kernel and other software > for 7.2, all went well. > Sadly I didn't do it after installing the video drivers from > Nvidia as th

Re: [newbie] Desktop Publishing

2001-06-22 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
eading this disagrees, I would be interested in your thoughts. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.1 Professional KDE 2.0.1 KMail 1.1.99 Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ***

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8.0 and Ricoh MP9120A-DP DVD CD-RW

2001-06-21 Thread s
I had a Ricoh RW9120A cdrw/dvd that was compatible with linux. However mine only worked for like two days. I ended up having to send it back. Anyway, the answer to your question is, yes it's compatible. (The dvd is the easy part, just make a link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd.) -

Re: [newbie] Disabled Mouse

2001-06-21 Thread s
open a terminal and su to root and type mouseconfig, or you could type harddrake and try get around in it with your arrow keys. If you don't have a windows key, I imagine you could play around and some combination will open the start menu. -s On Thursday 21 June 2001 04:46 am, you wrote: &g

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