[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login

2005-07-03 Thread Russell Butler
Russell Butler wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > >> On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote: >> >> >> This rings faint bells - I'm sure that error has been discussed >> before, so google should be able to find it. Try something like linux >> recognise ".png icon". >> >> Anne > > Thanks, A

[newbie] Re: Win2k is hijacking my network

2005-07-02 Thread Thomas Backlund
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 02 Jul 2005 12:23, Lee Wiggers wrote: All of a sudden a rogue win2k box on my net is assuming master and screwing up assigned ip's. Anyone know how to unfang the pos? I have a gun, but the box is my brothers. Check your /etc/samba/smb.conf. Make sure that th

[newbie] Re: Lost KDE login

2005-06-28 Thread Russell Butler
Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 28 Jun 2005 13:45, Russell Butler wrote: Hi all Sorry for what will probably be very simple, but I can't find a working solution other than a reinstallation, which I would like to avoid if possible. Acer laptop, just installed Mandriva 2005LE Mini. I did not not

[newbie] Lost KDE login

2005-06-28 Thread Russell Butler
Hi all Sorry for what will probably be very simple, but I can't find a working solution other than a reinstallation, which I would like to avoid if possible. Acer laptop, just installed Mandriva 2005LE Mini. I did not notice that the AC adapter was unplugged, and everything crashed. After this I

[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem

2005-06-14 Thread Russell Butler
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 13:18, Russell Butler wrote: > >>Some templates are saved under ~OOo/share/ and you may not (as user) >>have write permissions to that directory. >> > > It's in my home directory - I found it and checked the permissions, all of > which look fine. > >

[newbie] Re: OpenOfficeWriter problem

2005-06-14 Thread Russell Butler
Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 14 Jun 2005 12:37, Paul Kater wrote: > >>On Tue, June 14, 2005 12:22, Anne Wilson said: >> >>>open the template under > Templates > Edit and simply change the name, >>>saving it with a new name. I can't do that. For some reason it says >>>that the text is read-onl

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

2005-06-10 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 f

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

2005-06-10 Thread John Zoetebier
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 that look coarse. I have tri

[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 set

[newbie] Mouse wheel not working in Mandriva LE 10.2

2005-06-08 Thread John Zoetebier
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 the USB mouse did not work at a

[newbie] Re: keyboard

2005-05-25 Thread Russell Butler
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Thanks Russell - I think I have it correct now. Things slowly falling inot place. part from my spelling! I note you are using Thunderbird, try Edit-Preferences-Composition and there is a check box there for "Check spelling before sending" I pick up lots of my t

[newbie] Re: keyboard

2005-05-25 Thread Russell Butler
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Can believe I have this wrong again! Went into MCC but can find the corect palce to change to whatever I am supposed to have. Chose US Intl but obviously need just US! Hi Rosemary Does "Hardware - Keyboard" work? Russell __

[newbie] Re: KDE or Knome or ?

2005-05-24 Thread Anthony Brooks
Angus Auld wrote: > I've noticed the same thing here with Kaffeine too Nate. Once you call up > the program once, it will run in the background, even if you exit the > program. I have to kill Kaffeine in KDE System Guard in order to get it to > exit. I notice that it is eating approx. 30% to 50% c

[newbie] Re: "NTLDR Missing" Error -- Dual Boot

2005-05-15 Thread Frank L
I'm not sure what I did, but I just tried re-installing everything on the same drive and it seems to work. Thanks. -- Frank "Michel Leunen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Frank L wrote: >> I just did a fresh install of XP Pro and Mandriva 10.2. Everything >> s

[newbie] "NTLDR Missing" Error -- Dual Boot

2005-05-14 Thread Frank L
I just did a fresh install of XP Pro and Mandriva 10.2. Everything seemed to work fine, but when I tried to start XP I got the error message "NTLDR is Missing" "Press Ctl Alt Del to restart". If I try to restart Windows I get the same error message. -- Frank L ___

[newbie] New Install Questions

2005-05-13 Thread Frank L
I am about to install Mandriva Linux as a dual boot with XP Pro. Before I jump in, I would like to make sure I am doing everything correctly. I have a Pentium III 800mhz w/500MB RAM and three hard drives: 40GB, 110GB and 200GB. Here are my questions: 1.Is it best to install XP and Linux

[newbie] Re: mandrake 10.1 on hp pavilion 7935

2005-05-08 Thread Thomas Backlund
Michael Dancy wrote: So I installed mandrake 10.1 on my HP Pavilion 7935.. AMD 1300 256mb ram.. the usual crappy hp machine. It has onboard memory and I can’t seem to find a ‘video card’ in the selection that will work. I keep getting an error and when I run the test to check it out.. it just

[newbie] Re: 2005LE can't find hardware modem

2005-05-07 Thread Thomas Backlund
Mike Adolf wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 07:37 pm, ET wrote: On Friday 06 May 2005 06:46 pm, Mike Adolf wrote: After doing a network install of 2005LE, my modem is not detected. (I also have a broadband connection but need my modem for faxing). Windows shows it on COMM 3, and a modem query in XP re

[newbie] Re: fstab queries

2005-05-02 Thread Olive
WauloK wrote: When my PC boots up, I get the error: May 2 20:25:54 starbug mount: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, May 2 20:25:54 starbug mount:or too many mounted file systems Here's the entry created by Mandrake: /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 notail 1 2 And the othe

[newbie] Re: Beware

2005-04-25 Thread Jonesy
On Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:32:29 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] disseminated the following: > >>Let all be aware, I just received a post that purported to have >> come from my ISP. wanting me to verify my registration information. >> DO NOT fall for this blatant lie. Don't even visit

[newbie] Re: Partition 2nd hard drive

2005-04-23 Thread Olive
Peter Watson wrote: Hi folks I've just installed a second hard drive and was about to partition it with fdisk so I had a peek at the man page, it recommends using cfdisk instead. Has anyone got any pointers on whether fdisk or cfdisk is preferable? I've only used harddrake before but this time I

[newbie] Linux Ghost

2005-04-11 Thread Leroy Britton
Does anyone know of a free Linux program that is like Nortan Ghost, and bootable from either a Floppy or CD? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

[newbie] Re: [Cooker] Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird and Nvu

2005-04-11 Thread Philippe Landau
Frederic Crozat wrote: Hi guys, hello Frederic, how are you doing under the new flag :-) ? following marketing decisions, we are switching from Mozilla application suite to Firefox/Thunderbird/Nvu. -firefox, thunderbird and nvu will move from contrib to cooker main. I try to integrate all current

Re: [newbie] USB 2

2005-04-11 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
On Monday 11 April 2005 20:10, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: > how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives > this for USB controllers: PS: /proc/bus/usb/devices D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub

Re: [newbie] USB 2

2005-04-11 Thread Aron Smith
On Monday 11 April 2005 11:10 am, Pablo Ortuzar wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: > how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives > this for USB controllers: > > Identification > Vendor: âVIA Technologies > De

[newbie] USB 2

2005-04-11 Thread Pablo Ortuzar
Hello, I'd like to know if I can connect an iPod to my computer. iPod uses USB2: how can I know which USB is the one I have? Hardware identification gives this for USB controllers: Identification Vendor: âVIA Technologies Description: âVT82C586B USB Media class: âSERIAL_USB Connection Bus: âP

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 18:04, Mike Adolf wrote: > > > > Q1. Will the "Limited Edition 2005" distro be split into several flavors, > > like Discovery and PowerPack? A download Edition (3CD available on public > > mirrors) will be released? > > > > A1. There will be only one version available throug

[newbie] Kontact Question (how to)

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Adolf
On a shut down I got a strange yellow screen, had to power down. On reboot I had disk errors. I let the boot loader 'fix' them (with risk of lost data). After reboot, some task icons and desktop icons were missing and Mozilla lost it settings/bookmarks. I was able to recover OK except for Ko

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Adolf
On Monday 11 April 2005 05:59 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > > Dear community, > > > > After the merge, what happents to the distro? > > Will be any free version available? > > I used MDK for 2 years... > > I've started to love it! > > > Q1. Will the

Re: [newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files

2005-04-11 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 11 April 2005 09:38 am, Lovell Mcilwain wrote: > Hello all, > > I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play > avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me > what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? > > Right

Re: [newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files

2005-04-11 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 11, 2005 3:38 PM, Lovell Mcilwain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play > avi files. I have been > having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to > verify or change to get > this to work? > > Ri

[newbie] Getting Xine to play .avi files

2005-04-11 Thread Lovell Mcilwain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I just upgraded to 10.1 and I am still having trouble getting xine to play avi files. I have been having this problem since 9.0. Can anyone tell me what settings I need to verify or change to get this to work? Right now when I double c

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] Re: OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1

2005-04-11 Thread Russell Butler
SOTL wrote: Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Reply sent to ooo-users, Frank Russell __

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 11 Apr 2005 12:04, Dobrescu Mihai wrote: > Dear community, > > After the merge, what happents to the distro? > Will be any free version available? > I used MDK for 2 years... > I've started to love it! > Q1. Will the "Limited Edition 2005" distro be split into several flavors, like Disc

[newbie] mandriva future?

2005-04-11 Thread Dobrescu Mihai
Dear community, After the merge, what happents to the distro? Will be any free version available? I used MDK for 2 years... I've started to love it! Best Regards, Mihai Sorin Dobrescu __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resou

Re: [newbie] installed perl modules

2005-04-10 Thread Miark
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:36:52 -0500, Chris wrote: > Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as > for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm > packages I've installed. rpm -qa | grep -i perl Hope that helps, Miark _

Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

2005-04-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 10 April 2005 08:02 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Carroll Grigsby wrote: > > I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 > > inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The > > video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the vide

Re: [newbie] installed perl modules

2005-04-10 Thread frengoGorgia
Il lun, 2005-04-11 alle 01:36, Chris ha scritto: > Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms > in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've > installed. for an alphabetic list of module with full path you can try this script the author page is

Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carroll Grigsby wrote: I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg Run drakxconf and

[newbie] Installing new monitor

2005-04-10 Thread Carroll Grigsby
I bought a new monitor today -- 17 inch LCD -- to replace an aging 14 inch CRT on my backup machine running Mandrake 9.1 (yeah, I know). The video card is a Matrox G200 Millenium. How do I get the video resolution to run any higher than 800 x 600? -- cmg ___

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Tom
Ian wrote: On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any

[newbie] installed perl modules

2005-04-10 Thread Chris
Is there a list somewhere of perl modules installed such as for rpms in /var/log/rpmpkgs which I assume is a listing of rpm packages I've installed. -- Chris Registered Linux User 283774 http://counter.li.org 18:34:39 up 20:41, 1 user, load average: 0.21, 0.32, 0.33 Mandrake Linux 10.1 Official

Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? is there a f

Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-10 Thread frengoGorgia
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): CRITIC

Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 10 April 2005 19:12, Philippe Landau wrote: > after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD > i am a bit lost. > the installation went fast and fine, > but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. > can i install them through the software management interface ? > > after configuring k

Re: [newbie] cant unsubscribe

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 10, 2005 10:06 PM, Positive Negative <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Everytime i try i get an error "no email" from the mandrake site > > can you please un sub me You can unsubscribe to list by sending an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe newbie i

[newbie] cant unsubscribe

2005-04-10 Thread Positive Negative
Everytime i try i get an error "no email" from the mandrake site can you please un sub me -- AIM: FucPsSht Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 > > Tom disseminated the following: > > That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, > > I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other > > kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0100 Elwyn York wrote: > Don't undestand where I've gone wrong :( use # sh /home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh Charles -- "But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast to the nearest gas station." - Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Elwyn York wrote: Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /

[newbie] Installation (program) problems

2005-04-10 Thread Elwyn York
Hiya Was planning to do the upgrade today but I loaned my car out and left the 10.2 CDs in there :( Doh! Anyway, Tried to install Crossover Office and it didnt like it... [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] elwyn]# '/home/elwyn/install-crossover3.sh' bash: /home/elwyn/insta

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that

Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake

2005-04-10 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:13:28 +0200 Philippe Landau wrote: > > http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. > > That is perhaps what you seek. > i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 > due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 > what is the best way to install that

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
Philippe Landau wrote: if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) now that i installed mandrake 1

[newbie] Poor graphics driver

2005-04-10 Thread JR
After installing mandrake 10.1 O on a friends pc, I've noticed that his graphics preformance is a little poor. Its a little noticable when moving windows - very noticable when playing mpeg / wmv etc. Is there anything that can be done to improve this? The specs are below. Identification Vendo

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 14:26:16 -0400 JoeHill disseminated the following: > > That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, > > I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other > > kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, > > _do n

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Ian
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 19:26, JoeHill wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 > > Tom disseminated the following: > > That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, > > I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other > > kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's

[newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-10 Thread john
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): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223 (egg_desktop_ent

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread JoeHill
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:28:12 -0500 Tom disseminated the following: > That just isn't so. I have a GeF4, I use the 'nv' driver, > I've never used the proprietary nvidia driver, DVD's and any other > kind'a movies play jus' fine. DVD's, or any videos for that matter, > _do not_ require

Re: [newbie] aMule (was: eMule for Mandrake

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
Paul wrote: Have a look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/a/am/amule/aMule-1.2.8-1mdk.i586.html. That is perhaps what you seek. i can't install it on my fresh mandrake 10.1 due to a dependency: libcurl.so.2 what is the best way to install that ? as i understand it we are two class citizen

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 16:28, Tom wrote: > > mplayer will more often play problem DVD's than xine. BUT, > every once in a while I've encountered DVD's that xine will play and > mplayer won't. Those are the players I would recommend, not totem Side-issue, but interesting. I have one disk tha

[newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

2005-04-10 Thread Philippe Landau
after installing Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official DVD i am a bit lost. the installation went fast and fine, but i need thunderbird, firefox, gaim, amule. can i install them through the software management interface ? after configuring konqueror and the screen resolution, installing firefox and thunderbi

[newbie] ASUS 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card + wifi + MDK 10.1

2005-04-10 Thread Alexis Cothenet
Hi all, I wanted to create a wireless connexion under linux mdk 10.1 having the 54 Mbps 802.11g LAN PCI Card but i don't succeed in doing that. In fact, someone has indicated me the web site http://linux_wless.passys.nl/ According to this site, it is not supported by linux :-( Does someone knows

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Tom
JoeHill wrote: On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400

[newbie] Citrix ICA Client 32bit on 64bit mozilla

2005-04-10 Thread Tony
Hi, I'm running MDK AMD64, and using Mozilla 64 bit also, can anyone tell me if I can use the Citrix ICA 32bit client with this setup ? Regards, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Jo

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread et
On Sunday 10 April 2005 05:10 am, Sebastian Martin wrote: > Hi, > I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. > I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. > > Regards > > > *Sebastian Martin* > Hein

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-10 Thread JR
On Sunday 10 April 2005 02:25 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > JR wrote: > > On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>JR wrote: > >>>I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt > >>> work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, the

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-10 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 9, 2005 11:51 PM, Miark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but > > not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash > > drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am > > able to access it without problem. But pe

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-10 Thread Sebastian Martin
Hi, I remember playing DVDs on a 466Mhz Celeron with a 4MB Matrox Millenium. I suppose it sould at least play (if not smooth) on your Machine. Regards *Sebastian Martin* Heinrich - Heine - Str. 2c 35039 Marburg a.d. Lahn Deutschland / Germany Tel.:

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

2005-04-10 Thread Björn Olsson
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 10:29:32 +1200 SnapafunFrank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. > > I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at > installing the later. > > I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 10 Apr 2005 00:02, JoeHill wrote: > > I think it depends a lot on your video card/chipset. You cannot play DVD's > at all without hardware acceleration, IIRC, no matter your system resources > (though yours are definitely on the low end anyhow). I'm not sure this is true, Joe. My Matrox

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. His mouse is a PS/2

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Kaplan wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at installing the later. I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. The

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Kaplan
On Saturday 09 April 2005 06:29 pm, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Hi ~ the following is in reference to Acrobat Reader only. > > I have been reading about Acrobat5 and Acrobat7 and am looking at > installing the later. > > I understand that I need to remove all of Acrobat5 and that is OK by me. > The READ

Re: [newbie] X getting killed by viewing text document

2005-04-09 Thread mike
Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 12:30, mike wrote: > > >>Ahh... thanks Steven. >> >>Never happened to me before at least since I been using Linux. >>I guess I thought I was safer than I really was. >> >>Not sure how to turn that off in mozilla will look around. >> >>Again thanks, >>Mi

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-09 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 18:34:33 -0400 Miark disseminated the following: > I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB > RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) > I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but > nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz ju

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Miark
On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:24:17 -0500, Mikkel wrote: > On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but > not with KDE upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash > drive results in it being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am > able to access it without problem. But people that have

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
n here, with Mandrake, remains unbeatable. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

2005-04-09 Thread Miark
I have a Toshiba Tecra 8000 with a 400MHz processor, 192MB RAM, and DVD drive. From within XFCE (i.e. a lightweight enviro) I tried to play a DVD last night with mplayer, and totem, but nothing seems to work. Is 400 MHz just too little power? Miark ___

[newbie] Using the " rm " command

2005-04-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
mmand to search and remove them all at one time ? And even better ~ if there was a way to check everything " rm " wanted to remove first without having to say " Y " to every file one by one ? Still, this is only a thought and not essential but if you know then please share.

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: JR wrote: I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no mouse sectio

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Dennis Myers wrote: On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the following error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: only root can

Re: [newbie] PGP Package

2005-04-09 Thread Tony
Great, thanks :-)) On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 21:30, Simon wrote: > On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? > > I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) > > that I need to access, please

Re: [newbie] PGP Package

2005-04-09 Thread Simon
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 20:18, Tony wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? > I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that > I need to access, please help :-) > > Reagrds, Tony. Install gnupg and KGpg. Regards, Simon -- Lin

[newbie] PGP Package

2005-04-09 Thread Tony
Hi, Can anyone tell me if there is a MDK package available for PGP ? I have lots of PGP encrypted files from my old machine (after upgrade) that I need to access, please help :-) Reagrds, Tony. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeS

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 12:58:04 -0400 schreef john: >Thanks for response. I changed the mailer to thunderbird but I need to >know the correct command to fill in. Evolution was "evolution %s" (w/o >quotation marks). Thanks again in addvance You'll then need to enter the entire path to thunderbird.

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

2005-04-09 Thread Simon
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 14:18, Smiley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 > > Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with > > any other applications. > > A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mik

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 fo

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread Paul
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 for help.

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread JR
On Saturday 09 April 2005 03:09 pm, JR wrote: > On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > JR wrote: > > > I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt > > > work. It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is > > > no mouse section

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote: > On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the > > > > following error: > > > > > > > > Could not mount device. > > > > The reported error was: > > >

Re: [newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-09 Thread JR
On Saturday 09 April 2005 12:21 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > JR wrote: > > I put mandrake10.1-Official on my friends desktop. His mouse doesnt work. > > It doesn't show up in harddrake (the gui tool). In fact, there is no > > mouse section at all, and it's not under peripherals. > > > > His mou

[newbie] Connecting parallel printer through USB -> parallel converter

2005-04-09 Thread Yvan
Hello, I have an old HP DeskJet 560C printer which I used under Mandrake through a standard parallel port connection. Now I tried to connect the printer via a USB to Centronics 36 cable connector to be able to print throgh the USB port (by the way, this works when printing under XP, WinUAE Amiga

[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] 10.1 and Skype.

2005-04-09 Thread Smiley
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:41:19 +0100 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Smiley, yes it is nforce2 and no, I haven't got the mic working with any > other applications. A lot of people had (and still having) this problem with Mandrake and mike with nforce... Other distros does work, instead; alas

[newbie] OpenOffice Beta 2 Installation Mandrake 10.1

2005-04-09 Thread SOTL
Hi All HELP! I am attempting to install Open Office Beta 2 m02 on a Mandrake 10.1 system and I have a few questions as I do not understand the installation instructions. A copy of the installation instruction along with my questions follows. Hope some one can help. Thanks Frank _

Re: [newbie] Dual Booting with Multiple Linux Distros (Mandi, Debian)

2005-04-09 Thread Philippe Landau
if i install Mandi, what options should i choose to preserve the current grub entries ? or to copy them over to lilo (whatever mandrake 10.1 uses). last time i tried my superblock and its 7 backups were destroyed. (i have no idea what that is.) kind regards philippe ___

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

2005-04-09 Thread Simon
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 13:23, Smiley wrote: > On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 > > Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me > > get my microphone working? > > I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 > b

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

2005-04-09 Thread Smiley
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 12:04:05 +0100 Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, does anyone have Skype running on 10.1? If so could you help me get > my > microphone working? I don't use Skype, but let me guess: you're motherboard is nforce2 based...? If not, does your microphone work with other a

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