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] 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

[newbie] Using the rm command

2005-04-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
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. TIA -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always

[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

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
. -- 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 from MandrakeSoft? Go to http

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] 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 just

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, Mike Not quite

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 README

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.

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

[newbie] Creating a website with video

2005-04-08 Thread Aidan Holmes
Sorry this is a little off topic, I have a friend that wants to add some video to a website he has and wants me to help - but I've never done this before. So far I have been using Mozilla to edit his site and I've got no html knowledge at all. Is there someone who can point me in the right

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-08 Thread Aidan Holmes
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 8, 2005 4:12 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me stumped. If you did not try to mount the drive as a user, then you should not have gotten the error message. The standard hotplug settings will mount a flash drive on /mnt/removable unless it things the drive is

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 8, 2005 10:12 AM, Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This has me stumped. If you did not try to mount the drive as a user, then you should not have gotten the error message. The standard hotplug settings will mount a flash drive on /mnt/removable unless it things the drive is

[newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the environment. If the problem persists, please reinstall

Re: [newbie] Creating a website with video

2005-04-08 Thread et
On Friday 08 April 2005 04:42 am, Aidan Holmes wrote: Sorry this is a little off topic, I have a friend that wants to add some video to a website he has and wants me to help - but I've never done this before. So far I have been using Mozilla to edit his site and I've got no html knowledge at

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Friday 08 April 2005 11:54, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 8, 2005 11:27 AM, Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
HI Paul, Could the AR 7.0 itself be launched? If not you might need to reinstall it. Or I guess you didn't import it into your PATH. What will a which acroread in command line say? I remember I made a symbloic link ../AR7.0/bin/acroread to /usr/bin/acroread to insure it's in my PATH. Or

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 8, 2005 12:18 PM, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could the AR 7.0 itself be launched? If not you might need to reinstall it. Or I guess you didn't import it into your PATH. What will a which acroread in command line say? I remember I made a symbloic link ../AR7.0/bin/acroread to

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi Paul, Are you sure that the nppdf.so in your $mozilla/plugins is the 7.0 one. I didn't use the script to install the plugin, instead I manually did that. I am not sure what's your problem because I installed the AR 7 through RPM, but after the installation when I opened some pdf files

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi Paul, There are some posts discussing exactly your problem at http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136543st=15#entry596612, But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or

[newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi Folks, I have tried to use ark to extract a rar file but failed. It reported something like the file compressed using x-rar-compress and then failed. At that moment I used the ark along the Mandrake 10 KDE3.2. I remember its version is 2.4.x or so. Then I downloaded an ark-3.4-x RPM from

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Paul
Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? Many thanks for any help. http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz :-) -- A weapon? Isn't that an extension of your fear? - Loesje http://www.nlpagan.net/linux.php Have you visited

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 21:26:53 +0200, Paul wrote: Op Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100 schreef Q.H. Wang: Or is there some other good tool for rar? http://www.rarlab.com/rar/rarlinux-3.5.b1.tar.gz Even easier: urpmi unrar Miark Want to buy

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 20:06:25 +0100, Q.H. wrote: I have tried to use ark to extract a rar file but failed. It reported something like the file compressed using x-rar- compress and then failed. Ark will complain because it doesn't think x-rar-compress = rar but if you specify rar in the dialog,

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 PM, Q.H. Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are some posts discussing exactly your problem at http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=136543st=15#entry596612, But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. Thanks, Q.H.. It did not help,

[newbie] harddrake not detecting mouse (uses adaptor)

2005-04-08 Thread JR
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 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone tell me

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
Many thanks gangs. I've just installed unrar, it's working perfectly. Thanks again. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Q.H. Wang
Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] [OT] usb electric shock while connecting is shutting down computer

2005-04-08 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: On Wednesday 06 April 2005 01:10 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: Miark wrote: Try connecting the USB cable _before_ you plug in the external drive's power supply. thanks a lot for all the expertly advice, Joe, Mikkel, Miark and jdow. it looks like the external case is leaking power to

Re: [newbie] Web page hints?

2005-04-08 Thread et
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:35 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: I have a small amount of web space, and need to separate a part of it. A subdirectory call Design will be under the index page. I want to make it appear the root, but I can't remember how it's done. Nor can I find anything in either of

[newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread Philippe Landau
hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while

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

2005-04-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
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 mouse, but it is connected to a COM port via an adaptor. Can anyone

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005 23:23:26 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Miark

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread Aron Smith
On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are warm-hearted people here, which is rare on technical mailinglists.

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open Reader, it gives me that same PATH complaint. Are you

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 09 April 2005 01:38, Aron Smith wrote: On Friday 08 April 2005 03:53 pm, Philippe Landau wrote: hello i like PCLinux, i like Sam, i like PLF (not a distro) but i have very little experience with them. and most of all, i like the Mandrake mailinglists: there are

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-08 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 20:59, Aidan Holmes wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
the people here are very warm-hearted and helpful. I've experienced some rather nasty comments as a newbie on other lists. Ubuntu for example advertises humanity onto others while encouraging a gang mentality on their mailing lists. dissent and open discourse is not welcome

Re: [newbie] ark rar

2005-04-08 Thread Tom
Q.H. Wang wrote: Many thanks gangs. I've just installed unrar, it's working perfectly. Thanks again. Bests, Q.H. Now 'urpmi parchive2' and you'll be able to use it (par2) to repair corrupted or missing .par's if you also have the par2 files for the archive. Another hint:

[newbie] mkisofs - data cd's with directories

2005-04-08 Thread David E. Fox
You know, this should be simple. Nearly everybody does it, right? ;) Yet I am having trouble with mkisofs getting it to replicate a directory sstructure so that I can just continually go from one directory to the other (it is an audio book set of mp3s) without having to jump all over the

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 9, 2005 3:03 AM, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to use the Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla. However, I get the following error message, in spite of having Acrobat Reader 7.0 installed: Could not launch Adobe Reader 7.0. Please make sure it exists in PATH variable in the

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-08 Thread Miark
On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:37:14 +0100, Paul wrote: On Apr 9, 2005 12:26 AM, Miark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oooops, man, you got a very hard bone to tackle. Good luck. Him and I both. I've tried copying the file manually and using the install script, and although Firefox tries to open

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Chris
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:20 pm, Paul Smith wrote: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /usr/lib/mozilla-1.7.5/plugins/nppdf.so /home/chris/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so /root/.mozilla/plugins/nppdf.so It automatically installed in ~/.mozilla/plugins/ when I used the (2) option when I ran

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All 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 mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-08 Thread Dennis Myers
On Friday 08 April 2005 09:52 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 04:13 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All 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 mount

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse

2005-04-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Well, that works, except that then the wheel doesn't scroll.

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread Margot
Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which control centre is missing? Mandrake control centre,

Re: [newbie] PS2 wheelmouse SOLVED

2005-04-07 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:51:13 -0700 Russ Kepler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I solved the same problem by adding psmouse.proto=bare to the append in the lilo.conf. After remember to 'lilo' to reset the boot things worked with the KVM. Pardon the shout, but fixes excite me. (I lead a boring

[newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the buttons. I can see it in the blue area above and use it the

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Peter Watson
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of the

RE: RE: [newbie] Compiling the 2.6.11 Kernel ?

2005-04-07 Thread Hugh Dixon
My idiot sheet says: make clean bzImage modules to build the kernel make modules_install install to install the kernel. Hopefully this this put the new kernel in your bootloader, and set it to the default next time you boot. I have had occasional trouble with the default bit. Hopefully it

[newbie] kmail problem

2005-04-07 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi Folks, Recently I got a problem that I could frequently receive emails, which, I guess, are supposedly sent to my colleague. Although most of those emails are spam mails, I believe, it's kinda annoying. Because I don't know whether this problem comes from? Could anyone tell something by

Re: [newbie] kmail problem

2005-04-07 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: Hi Folks, Recently I got a problem that I could frequently receive emails, which, I guess, are supposedly sent to my colleague. Although most of those emails are spam mails, I believe, it's kinda annoying. Because I don't know whether this

[newbie] samba wizard

2005-04-07 Thread Isak Lyberth
Where do i find the samba wisard that is shown on the screenshots on mandrakelinux.com? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.1/features/8.php3 i can't seem to find it. Regards Isak Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] kmail problem

2005-04-07 Thread Q.H. Wang
Many thanks for both of your answering. I'm gonna got it cracked soon. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] samba wizard

2005-04-07 Thread Christopher Taylor
On Apr 7, 2005 8:54 AM, Isak Lyberth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where do i find the samba wisard that is shown on the screenshots on mandrakelinux.com? http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/10.1/features/8.php3 i can't seem to find it. Regards Isak

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Miark
On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:51:11 -0400, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Here's one tidbit that makes the change a bit more palatable: The

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 22:13, Peter Watson wrote: On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 21:45, Derek Jennings wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 10:38, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up

Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!

2005-04-07 Thread Domingo Abrego
hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it is not possible!!! but i found a driver for LTwinmodem

Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!

2005-04-07 Thread Ian
On Thursday 07 Apr 2005 17:55, Domingo Abrego wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is that it

Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!

2005-04-07 Thread JR
On Thursday 07 April 2005 05:55 pm, Domingo Abrego wrote: hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this websites is

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now:

Re: [newbie] weird frozen bubble problem

2005-04-07 Thread Aron Smith
On Thursday 07 April 2005 02:38 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've just installed frozen bubble to have a play but can't actually get it to do anything. Used urpmi frozen-bubble and install seemed okay, get the frozen bubble display up but cursor disappears when I try to hover over any of

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Philippe Landau
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 22:33:40 -0400, Ivo wrote: I think Mandriva is awful... Me too. But it's official now: http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/corporate/2551 Miark Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread LES
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which

[newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread Leroy Britton
I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. Any help would be

[newbie] Web page hints?

2005-04-07 Thread Anne Wilson
I have a small amount of web space, and need to separate a part of it. A subdirectory call Design will be under the index page. I want to make it appear the root, but I can't remember how it's done. Nor can I find anything in either of the books I have. Can anyone either point me at

Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!

2005-04-07 Thread Brett Lyon
the appropriate driver here: http://www.heby.de/ltmodem More good instructions for newbie here: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mert1313/ltmodem.html I have tried the SV92P (listed as incompatible) and it does, in fact, not work. Good luck Brett --- Domingo Abrego [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am using

[newbie] KDE 3.4 and 10.2

2005-04-07 Thread xxx
Well, did they finally put the new KDE in there Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com

Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Leroy Britton wrote: I am using mandrake 10.1 and need to prepare a floppy for lilo. I found instructions and they say to use fdformat /dev/fd0H1440, however this gives me a error of No such file or directory. I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address.

Re: [newbie] Lilo on floppy

2005-04-07 Thread riccardo
On Thursday 07 April 2005 06:33 pm, Leroy Britton wrote: I have also tried fdformat /dev/fd0 and that gives me No such device or address. ___ ~ maybe, stick in a floppy then, as root, command :- mkfs.minix /dev/fd0 or mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0 best rgds

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] No control centre

2005-04-07 Thread Margot
LES wrote: On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:49, Margot wrote: Les Thomas wrote: I have mandrake 10.1 , some how the control centre has dissapeared , I must have done something to either hide it or delte it . I think it must be deactivated but dont know where to look or how to get it back up Les Which

[newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All 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 mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Paul Want to

[newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream

2005-04-07 Thread Cameron MacDonald
I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could not find mime type application/octet-stream. I followed Brian's thread, made a

[newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Tim
Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Its for my mother,

Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream

2005-04-07 Thread frengoGorgia
Il gio, 2005-04-07 alle 23:42, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could not find mime

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 07 April 2005 23:14, Tim wrote: Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually running 10.1 on this pc. Also, Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Al
- Original Message - From: Tim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 10:14 AM Subject: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1 Hello all, Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part

Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream

2005-04-07 Thread Cameron MacDonald
frengoGorgia wrote: Il gio, 2005-04-07 alle 23:42, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: I have done what others before have done: mucked about in file associations and screwed something up. Brian McKee apparently did the same thing in January: When I try to open KDE apps, I get an error message: Could

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Rafa Kamraj
Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse trademark lawsuit with Hearst Corporation? Rafa

Re: [newbie] Error with KDE apps; octet-stream

2005-04-07 Thread frengoGorgia
Il ven, 2005-04-08 alle 00:58, Cameron MacDonald ha scritto: Off-topic: Are you a cyclist?? No, I don't think everyone in Italy rides a bicycle, but Just thought I'd check. I ride a Fondriest. I'm not a cyclist, i only ride bicycle in my spare time , and for little travel too .

Re: [newbie] Mandriva

2005-04-07 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 08 April 2005 01:14, Rafa Kamraj wrote: Aron Smith wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 07:51 am, Miark wrote: Agreed its horrible corrupted to Mandrivel too easy Marketing wise this is a bad move Well, maybe there is a method in this madness. Anyone knew anything about thouse

Re: [newbie] win modem Lucent...!!!

2005-04-07 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 07 April 2005 09:55 am, Domingo Abrego wrote: | hi, i am using a winmodem on my computer for windows, is that possible to | use that same modem for linux, mandrake community edition v.10 ?... i did | some reseaches about win modems and linux and what i read in all this | websites is

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Paul Smith wrote: On Apr 7, 2005 11:59 PM, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Mikkel. Dumb question time - did the flash drive get mounted automaticly on /mnt/removable? This is what usualy happens when you plug one in. If you plug in a second one, it gets mounted on

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Erylon Hines
On Thursday 07 April 2005 03:14 pm, Tim wrote: | Hello all, | | | Please forgive this basic question, I couldn't find the minimum | requirements for MD 10.1 anywhere. the worst part is I'm actually | running 10.1 on this pc. | | Also, | | Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 144mb, that runs

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Thursday 07 April 2005 11:12 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details If you have this in your /etc/fstab, you can't be running 10.1 , since this is provided by hal and that is a feature in 10.2, and is non-existent in 10.1. Are

Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 08 April 2005 12:25 am, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in

Re: [newbie] XF86Config settings for LG Studioworks 700S

2005-04-06 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 15:49, WauloK wrote: Yes! Definitely! Thanks :) Now you can get back into IRC and tell'em how great having TWO resources for Mandrake issues is, eh? (g) YankDownUnder -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales

Re: [newbie] Lost XWindows

2005-04-06 Thread Charles Rodgers
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 23:13, Charles Rodgers wrote: I foolishly entered control alt F1 and now my machine will only boot to the command screen. What is the command to get from the command screen back to XWindows ? Your help will be much appreciated. Charles Ctl+Alt+F1 only moves you

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.2

2005-04-06 Thread Alexander Ruoff
Am Dienstag 5. April 2005 16:37 schrieb Miark: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 15:44:42 -0400, JoeHill wrote: On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 17:38:47 +0100 Elwyn York disseminated the following: As far as your mail, it's stored in your home dir, which during even a clean install is not formatted, at least not

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files,

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-06 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 6, 2005 3:44 AM, Alberto Omar Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? Try this http://java.com/en/download/help/testvm.xml Thanks to all who answered my question. Paul

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