Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2 with via82xx: solved

2003-12-16 Thread emnej
Just for future reference. I downloaded the ALSA 9.0 RC6 package, but did not yet install it. But yesterday evening when I was playing with the Mandrake Control Centre again, I changed to the OSS driver for the Via chip and also disabled ALSA at boot. This morning when I started up the computer

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-13 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2: almost solved

2003-12-13 Thread emnej
Op za 13-12-2003, om 08:46 schreef Frans Ketelaars: On Saturday 13 December 2003 10:13, emnej wrote: Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf?

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread Derek Jennings
On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int,

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread emnej
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 05:43 schreef Charlie: On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586.

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-12 Thread emnej
Op vr 12-12-2003, om 09:32 schreef Derek Jennings: On Friday 12 Dec 2003 7:15 am, emnej wrote: Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I

[newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread emnej
For the last half year, I have been using Mandrake 9.0 on my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D laptop. During that time the sound was working fine. A few weeks ago, I did a fresh install of Mandrake 9.2. It works fine, but the sound is not working at all. Because I am a newbie, I have no idea what to do.

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. -- John Willby Registered Linux user number 321644 ICQ: 92791912 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] YIM: vicarofwibley Linux is like a wigwam - No Gates, no Windows, Apache inside. 18:29:15 up 14

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. Io Have you tried running aumix or kmix to make sure that your sound settings are not muted? I think Derek said this was the

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread emnej
Op do 11-12-2003, om 19:31 schreef Inhabitant of Zion: Have you tried running alsaconf? Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. When I run alsaconf as root, I receive the following message: # alsaconf device_mode int, description Device file permission mask for devfs.

Re: [newbie] Help! Sound not working in 9.2

2003-12-11 Thread Charlie
On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 06:09 am, many eyes noted that Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 11 December 2003 01:31 pm, Inhabitant of Zion wrote: Io Have you tried running alsaconf? Io Io Its available in the alsa-utils-1.0.0-0.1rc1mdk RPM for i586. Io Have you tried running aumix or kmix to make

Re: [newbie] help with fetchmail.....

2003-11-15 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 15 Nov 2003 4:31 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I would be greatfull if some one could plz suggest a possible solution to a fetchmail problem I am having.. I am currently using smoothwall to connect to my ISP to send/ receive mail / browse the web, via a dial on demand ppp

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-06 Thread Phan N. Thu
Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 6:13 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected

[newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Thread Phan N. Thu
Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Thread Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Thread Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since,

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Thread Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Thread qhwang
Just like what derek said, run 'mousedrake as root to reconfigure your mouse. I run into the similar condition several weeks ago. Wishes, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] help with bash command

2003-10-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 08:12:06PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: I am trying to get a script to work. It is much more complicated than this, but i have boiled it down to this to debug it: command='dodge plymouth' echo $command snip But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at the

Re: [newbie] help with bash command

2003-10-29 Thread Eric Huff
command='dodge plymouth' But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at the space: mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject dodge plymouth -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body Quote $command mhmail to -subject $command ... Todd, somehow i figured you would have the answer. You

Re: [newbie] help with bash command

2003-10-29 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:38:03PM -0800, Eric Huff wrote: Quote $command mhmail to -subject $command ... Todd, somehow i figured you would have the answer. You are definitely the bash-man! I swear i even had that typed in once, but was sure it would make the subject be $command.

[newbie] help with bash command

2003-10-28 Thread Eric Huff
I am trying to get a script to work. It is much more complicated than this, but i have boiled it down to this to debug it: command='dodge plymouth' echo $command mhmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -subject $command -from [EMAIL PROTECTED] -body But when the mhmail line runs, it apears to seperate at

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-25 Thread stormjumper
. hope this explanation helps. any errors pls correct me. - Original Message - From: Martin L. Johansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 04:54 Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :) On Thursday 23 October 2003

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-24 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Friday 24 October 2003 02:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need that much? Not for a desktop. Only servers handling web services and lot'sa lot'sa users, or a sound/video studio. So unless

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:41 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: You'll need to do the same, or add mem=860Mto your lilo append line for the kernel you're usin. Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Does that mean I'm

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 19:42, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 11:40 am, Martin L. Johansen wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 15:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit swap...so I'd have to agree...unless you're doing something

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Martin L. Johansen
On Thursday 23 October 2003 21:54, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 01:42 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB I've got 512 of DDR here and AFAIK, I've -never- hit

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Tom, I added mem=860 to

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:16 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:45 pm, Martin L. Johansen wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 21 October 2003 10:06 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Barefoot on a

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 22 October 2003 05:15 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip snip snip But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? You don't mention versions. 9.2 should

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-21 Thread Terence J. Golightly
Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-18 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 17 2003 08:29 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I started looking at memory online and I quickly became confused. I looked at my manual on page 10 for my SY-7KV and it doesn't mention the number of contacts. Is it 168 or 184? What memory can I use? Where did you find the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-18 Thread Greg Meyer
On Friday 17 October 2003 09:29 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: I started looking at memory online and I quickly became confused. I looked at my manual on page 10 for my SY-7KV and it doesn't mention the number of contacts. Is it 168 or 184? What memory can I use? Where did you find the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-18 Thread Terence J. Golightly
Snip Tom, Thanks for all your help. I ordered two 512MB DIMMS. That should keep me for awhile. :) Terry On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=108 Board uses 184 pin DDR. FSB is 266, so it needs at least pc2100. So buy DDR

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-18 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 02:09 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 03:09 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the urpmi command or from software manager. Hope it helps. Charlie

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 16, 2003 09:27 pm, Stormjumper wrote: hi, this must really sound stupid. The only stupid questions to my way of thinking are the ones you *don't* ask. (-; am trying to install bittorrent to dl 9.2, using the rpm as listed on the web

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-17 Thread ed tharp
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 13:28, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snippit Snip Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Contacts are

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-17 Thread Charlie M.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 October 17, 2003 12:52 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 17 October 2003 11:44 am, Charlie M. wrote: urpmi bittorrent and accepting the To satisfy dependencies the following packages are going to be installed? here, that command returns a

Re: [newbie] help installing bittorrent

2003-10-17 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 17 October 2003 03:09 pm, Charlie M. wrote: I guess the texstar source has to be added to use it with 9.1 from the urpmi command or from software manager. Hope it helps. Charlie Sure does - I guess it was where I don't have Texstar added as a software source right now. Thank

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-17 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday October 17 2003 02:00 pm, ed tharp wrote: Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,, minivac creates a ton of static, enough to screw memory

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-17 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday October 17 2003 02:00 pm, ed tharp wrote: Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,,

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have a bad DIMM. I read something about setting up memtest as a selection from the bootloader writing the bad memory blocks to disk and using another program/module to tell the kernel to not use that

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday October 15 2003 06:05 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip Snip Snip Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Re-seat the ram and check again. Try

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Thread Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:52, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snippety Snip If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. Mike, Its over a year old

[newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-15 Thread Terence J. Golightly
Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the standard tests. It locked up on test 5 with errors in the 5 figures range.

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable

2003-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access the drive. I get a message saying the drive is not

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable

2003-10-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 03:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop. However, neither my user account or the root account can access

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable

2003-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 13 October 2003 13:19, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'm unclear as to why some devices, like my Zip 250 USB drive are appearing twice. I have a CD drive, along with a CDRW (scsi emulation via k3b), the Zip drive, and occasionally the camera (not always attached). Apppears as if fstab is

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable

2003-10-13 Thread Dennis Myers
On Monday 13 October 2003 06:19 am, Trey Sizemore wrote: On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 03:14, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 01:27, Trey Sizemore wrote: When I plug in my Nikon CoolPix 885 digital camera via a USB connection, I get a /mnt/removable icon on my KDE 3.1 desktop.

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)

2003-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, not on

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)

2003-10-13 Thread Heather/Femme
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 10:51:14 -0500 Trey Sizemore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs? -- Trey Sizemore

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)

2003-10-13 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 13:08, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Monday 13 October 2003 17:51, Trey Sizemore wrote: I'll try this when I get back today. I have been thinking of disabling supermount. Thought some of these issues would go away...anyone had any issues with supermount? How about autofs?

Re: [newbie] Help with /mnt/removable (supermount?)

2003-10-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 14 October 2003 01:12, Trey Sizemore wrote: I was able to launch Konq as root from a terminal window and the open 'file:///mnt/camera' but was not able to do this from Konq as a normal user. Nor could I use the shortcut on my desktop (from fstab?) for /mnt/camera. I belong to the

[newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can periodically clearing this log files? Thanks in advance. - -- Fajar

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 8:48 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I've just found out that my /var partition is extremly low on free space. Mostly used by log files that getting bigger beyond my expectation. Is there any way that I can

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files to tidy :-) derek

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 30 Sep 2003 9:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Fajar Priyanto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Correct. anacron will schedule jobs to run that were not run by cron. Logrotate is the actual package to compress the log files. Logrotate is installed by default in Mandrake, and a cron

Re: [newbie] Help! Clearing log files

2003-09-30 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 04:28 am, Fajar Priyanto wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 03:02 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: One of those jobs tidies up your log files. Do not be surprised if your computer goes crazy with disc accesses after you install anacron. You have a *lot* of log files

Re: [newbie] Help for installation

2003-09-30 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 01:14, Budianto Yudi wrote: Hi, my name is Budianto Yudi. I have many problems during installation. My computer specification is Processor Duron 750 MHZ Motherboard Shuttle With VGA graphic and Sound Card Onboard HardDisk 20 GB Memory SDRAM 128 Mb Hello,

GOT IT! Re: [newbie] help with palm m130! (and JPilot)

2003-09-26 Thread Ricardo Castanho de Oliveira Freitas
On Friday 26 September 2003 03:43, you wrote: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:08:09 -0300 TKS! I got to fix this trouble without the patch! I just followed the instructions at: http://www.linuxpda.com/visor/howto/current/ which you sent me! I've just applied the recommended changes to

[newbie] Help with video card drivers.

2003-09-12 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
Hi, I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz 24b. I then tested the configuration and it worked fine. I use the vesa

Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.

2003-09-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration for, video card- vesa, monitor- 1280*1024 @ 60hz, display- 1024*768 @70hz

Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.

2003-09-12 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
: Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video

Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.

2003-09-12 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration

Re: [newbie] Help with video card drivers.

2003-09-12 Thread d2ci1fj g1nf24
: [newbie] Help with video card drivers. Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 16:51:14 -0400 On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:33:01 + d2ci1fj g1nf24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having a problem with my video card driver. I'm using a ATI Radeon 9800 video card. I installed Mandrake 9.1 and set the video configuration

Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH

2003-09-09 Thread John Wilson
On September 8, 2003 10:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with includes and libraries that are specific to that package -

Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH

2003-09-09 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:21, John Wilson wrote: On September 8, 2003 10:47 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with

[newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH

2003-09-08 Thread John Wilson
Hi there. Okay, oh great gurus. Just for fun I'm running through LinuxFromScratch to see what I can learn. One of the first things they want me to do is build a new copy of Bash on the mount point I created for my experiment. What follows is the attempt to make the package:

Re: [newbie] Help! Or how to build a (better??) BASH

2003-09-08 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:16, John Wilson wrote: Any help would be most appreciated. Even from Stephen. :-) ttfn John I would tend to think that they'd have set you up with includes and libraries that are specific to that package - so in using the .h includes from the Mandrake distro, it

[newbie] Help please

2003-09-04 Thread Scooby
Help! I am getting the following error when trying to run gnucash : The font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing character set ISO8859-1) (Missing character set ISO8859-1) Fatal Error:

Re: [newbie] Help please

2003-09-04 Thread HaywireMac
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 08:24:40 -0400 Scooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I am getting the following error when trying to run gnucash : The font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-* does not support all the required character sets for the current locale en_US (Missing

Re: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range

2003-09-03 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 12:40, Roberto Armenteros wrote: Hi all, This should be a simple question. I am using a private network IP range for my internal network where all the IP's start with 192.168.0. the only thing that changes is the last octate. Please, advice if this

Re: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range

2003-09-03 Thread Christopher M. Iarocci
- Original Message - From: Roberto Armenteros [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 10:40 PM Subject: [newbie] Help... specifying an IP range Hi all, This should be a simple question. I am using a private network IP range for my internal

Re: [newbie] Help on postfix

2003-09-01 Thread Roland Cruse
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:51:03AM +0200, Kim Brandt wrote: I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some

[newbie] Help sounddriver !

2003-08-29 Thread Iwan Binanto
Hi, I have some trouble with my Mandrake 9.0 which is can not access my sound card (there is no sound). When booting I always receive a message that sound server cannot start because CPU overload. I don't know what happend. Please some body help me !!! Specification my CPU is : Mainboard intel

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-28 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-27 Thread d2ci1fj
Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers. Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 05:18:33 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need help installing a video card driver for a radeon 9800 in mandrake. What the problem is is after I install it ask me to generate a customized kernel module What version of Mandrake are you running and which of the ATI drivers

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 09:46:34 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would you send it in text and not an attachment? Thanks. Since he will also get this as a attachment with crappy OE, Stephen would you mind explaining to him about PGP, which I do not intend to stop using, and possible send to him

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-27 Thread d2ci1fj
Would you send it in writing so that when I open the email I can read it instead of in an attachment? Thanks. - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 10:12 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with installing video

Re: [newbie] Help with installing video drivers.

2003-08-27 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:21:04 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What is init 3? How do I drop to it? How do I switch back to init5? Just for this post to you I have turned-off PGP so this should appear in OE as a simple text message, I would refer to keep it on at all times because of

Re: [newbie] Help on postfix

2003-08-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 Aug 2003 8:51 am, Kim Brandt wrote: Hi everyone I got some problems when i tried to install qmail (i already got postfix 20010228-p103 working well) And the installation didn´t work, so i uninstalled qmail. I run a webserver on a Mandrake 8.1 machine, and usually get some

[newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-20 Thread Tony S. Sykes
will start to look into sed. Thanks all, Tony. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with a script In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then end up

Re: [newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-20 Thread Miark
to look into sed. Thanks all, Tony. -Original Message- From: Miark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 4:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Help with a script In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then end up

[newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-19 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a) which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking for and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the relevant info. When you grep the binary file the line is very long. I am

Re: [newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-19 Thread Todd Slater
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:05:31PM +0100, Tony S. Sykes wrote: All, I am struggling writing a script which greps a binary file (grep -a) which will remove all of the data before the characters I am looking for and then to remove the data after another character so I have only the relevant

Re: [newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-19 Thread Paul
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 17:05, Tony S. Sykes wrote: ed be able to do this? I am not looking for you to write the script, just pointers as to what commands I could use. So far I have got the grep done grep -a '@(#)' file but it's what I do to the line after that. Perhaps it is an idea to limit

Re: [newbie] Help with a script

2003-08-19 Thread Miark
In Perl I would use a regular expression to match the text, then end up with the string you're looking for in $1. So, for instance #!/usr/bin/perl open FILE, filename; while (FILE) { m/exp_here/; print I found '$1'\n; } close FILE; Miark On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:05:31 +0100, Tony S.

[newbie] Help on what (sccs)?

2003-08-18 Thread Tony S. Sykes
All, On Sco Unixware (boo) we have a command called what which Extract SCCS-version information from a file. I have been trying to Google but it does not let you search on what, to try to find this command in Linux (to move off of Sco(yeah)). So far I have not been able to do this. The

Re: [newbie] HELP my modem

2003-08-14 Thread Roland Hughes
I am not sure what you mean by autoload file but you should be able to start KPPP in a terminal window. Roly On Wednesday 13 August 2003 05:57 am, aj wrote: hi all I'm new Mandrake 9.1 user and linux too. I've two questions 1- I've notebook Compaq prosignia 150, it has a winmodem Lucent I

[newbie] HELP!! Video. Startx error message. Mandrake 9.1 Power Pack

2003-08-14 Thread R. L. Moore
I go to regular command line after boot. After stopping X I tried to restart. I get an nVidia error message. I am A total Newbie and don't know were to get message to print let alone send a copy to list. :~(. My video card is an Elsa Gladiac MX nVidia GeForce 2 MX Rev A. I went to Elsa's

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