Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
upgrade. One thing stands out immediately: Within your 00-mdk.rules file is a section for sound devices: There is no mention here of " Alsa " at all, yet this is where things are usually initiated and I am surprised by " Alsa's " absence. You might want to start a thread at newbie

Re: [newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
this gives you errors then stop here and let me know what those errors are. ] # cd /mnt/hda6 # ls Look at any directories listed here ( other than lost & found ) and tell me what they are please. Not trying to crowd you so will stop here and await your replies. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIO

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
has various ways of finding them out ~ but that no one file that relates specifically to this is available to see from using another system to look in. Worth a try though. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to

[newbie] unsubscribe

2005-03-27 Thread Jeremiah Brown
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rosemary McGillicuddy Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 6:30 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] cd into file Chris wrote: >On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wr

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:29, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: > >>Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > >>>Hello Frank > >>> > >>>Thanks for that vote of confidence! > >>>No joy with df ... > >>> > >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /hom

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 03:10, Jason Oakley wrote: > dmesg says: > mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice > > usbcore: registered new driver usbhid > drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver > usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse > drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID B

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Ivo Perich
What happened in the Mandrake installation? Did the mouse work? If so, I had exactly the same problem with a ps/2 mouse. In the instalation, it worked fine. After the reboot, it didn't. I used the cursor keys and enter the tab, changed the mouse to anything, then PS/2 and it worked. When i reboo

Re: [newbie] digikam update

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 05:30, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 12:16, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > On Sunday 20 Mar 2005 22:45, Dan Gordon wrote: > > > On March 20, 2005 04:48 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > > > After mucking about most of the day, and thinking I had installed > >

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
0-mdk.rules file is a section for sound devices: > > There is no mention here of " Alsa " at all, yet this is where things > are usually initiated and I am surprised by " Alsa's " absence. > > You might want

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
/home/rosemary/Desktop/ It may well be that there is something different here. *Er if either of the commands simply returned you directly to the prompt without doing anything then check your Desktop the file ( df.txt ) may actually be there...* -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONA

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: RickSisler wrote: SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When within my system I issue the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: > Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > > Hello Frank > > > > Thanks for that vote of confidence! > > No joy with df ... > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt > > bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory >

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
for sound devices: There is no mention here of " Alsa " at all, yet this is where things are usually initiated and I am surprised by " Alsa's " absence. You might want to start a thread at newbie@linux-mandrake.com about this. That is: alsa hangs the system during bootup an

[newbie] re: newbie df

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Warnings well heeded. I am almost too scared to do anything in Mandrake now - no just kidding. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 4865. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause pro

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
creen. This makes/overwrites a text file at the location ( path ) you choose. An extension of this is to use two greater than symbols " >> " and this will add to the text file rather than overwrite it. Hope this becomes a useful tool for you to use. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTI

Re: [newbie] df

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
o konsole later if you wish ): type the letter ' q ' ( Q for quit ) and press to get out of fdisk. ] AND as stated above ~ don't go looking around with this command ~ it could land you in trouble. If you are not happy with my warnings here then please call me. -- Newbie Seekin

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Chris wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file

[newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt df:

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Rob. This is mine: Section "InputDevice"     Identifier "Mouse1"     Driver "mouse"     Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"     Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"     Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7" EndSection Not sure what that gets set to when I log in, but after selecting the mouse that's what it's se

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Chris
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded > some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to > /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no > such file or direc

Re: [newbie] Booting in "I" mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
ikkel. I really appreciate the time you have given already. Rosemary The new entry is within lilo.conf and I may have mentioned it before ~ it involves the "devfs=nomount" append parameter. Get back with you later. Awaiting some updated copies of some config files. -- Newbie Seeking

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
starts that its mount point for one partition is /mnt for example. ) At present I'm even unaware of how many partitions that system has. There are long ways of finding out but you have given me another place to look before I go there with tomsrtbt. Again, your input is greatly appreciate

[newbie] Log Off/Reboot/Halt

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
When I want to log off, the only option I have is LOG OFF. There's no Reboot or Halt option. Randomly (it seems) I get the dragon "log off/reboot/halt" menu, but not very often. I can go into the settings and set SHUTDOWN to EVERYONE (after logging back in as root. That is, log off, log in as

[newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Thread Jason Oakley
Maybe if I try asking one question per email. Like others, my USB mouse never works when I boot MDK. I have to log on using keyboard only, then use Cursor keys and enter and tab to change the mouse to something else, eg PS2 then I can change it back to PS2/USB and everything is fine. Next time I

[newbie] disable automatic sleep mode

2005-03-27 Thread Eric Pante
dear listers, I am using Mandrake 9.2 on a Dell Optiplex GX300. I need the computer to run for at least 4 days (heavy calculations with GRASS GIS), unfortunately, it goes into sleep mode after a couple of hours. I meandered within the configuration tools of mandrake 9.2, but did not find anything (

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread aron smith
On Sunday 27 March 2005 01:50 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > Ronald J. Hall wrote: > >On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > >>Did you create that "Linux Stuff" directory in Konqueror ? > >>If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't > >>like spaces in fi

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Did you create that "Linux Stuff" directory in Konqueror ? If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't like spaces in file names. You could try to rename that directory to i.e. "Linux_Stuff" or som

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:57 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Did you create that "Linux Stuff" directory in Konqueror ? > If so, the command shell probably won't see it. The shell doesn't > like spaces in file names. > > You could try to rename that directory to i.e. "Linux_Stuff" or some > such. > >

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Joe Mecklin
in addition to the other suggestions, prefacing the space with a "\" (ie "Linux\ Stuff") when you reference it should make it available. also, enclosing anything with spaces in it in single or double quotes ('/home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms') should also allow access. On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:57:

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Sunday 27 March 2005 22:42, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I > downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I > saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd > into it, tells me no such file or director

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread aron smith
On Sunday 27 March 2005 12:42 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: > I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded > some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to > /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no > such file or direc

Re: [newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Bill Winegarden
Hi Rosemary, Did you try doing a then tab to finish it off. I know that spaces are treated differently. Whenever I forget exact directory names I just cd to the first letter and let the tab key finish it off. It will give you all possible matches from that point forward. HTH, Bill W. On Sunda

[newbie] cd into file

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I am feeling particularly stupid and frustrated just now. I downloaded some files in preparation for installing gwenview. I saved them to /home/rosemary/Linux Stuff/rpms - now I can't cd into it, tells me no such file or directory. Thought I would rename it, but same problem. I don't want t

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-27 Thread Duncan Anderson
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I sugg

Re: [newbie] extracting cd audio files

2005-03-27 Thread Antoine Farnault
On KDE,i think there is another way that is easyer... Just tape "audiocd:/" on the address bar of konqueror when your cdrom is mount. Le samedi 26 mars 2005 à 13:35 +0100, H.J.Bathoorn a écrit : > On Saturday 26 March 2005 10:50, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Saturday 26 March 2005 00:51, Paul Kap

Re: [newbie] Booting in "I" mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at "starting sendmail" so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some i

Re: [newbie] Booting in "I" mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at "starting sendmail" so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt to g

Re: [newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Teilhard Knight wrote: The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form "snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz" in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran

[newbie] Location of a driver for a softmodem?

2005-03-27 Thread Teilhard Knight
The Alsa distribution contain a module which is the driver for my laptop (soft)modem. It was in the form "snd-atiixp-modem.ko.gz" in the directory /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/kernel/sound/pci. Now, I decompressed it and put it in /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdksmp/modem and ran "modprobe snd-atiixp-mo

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-27 Thread SigmaX
What are their FBS speeds, respectively? If your Athlon had a 100MHz FBS and the Celeron has a 400MHz FBS, I'd go for the celeron hands down. SigmaX OOzy Pal wrote: Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. S

[newbie] df

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
This is my df - quite different to what knoppix gave! [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ df FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 5.8G 1.7G 3.9G 30% / /dev/hda9 12G 170M 12G 2% /home [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ It's the same when I am root. Ros

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-27 Thread RickSisler
SnapafunFrank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > When within my system I issue the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / > /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot > /dev/hda6 9

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-27 Thread et
On Sunday 27 March 2005 02:13 am, riccardo wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:36 am, OOzy Pal wrote: > > I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade > > to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see > > a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform > > better with Linux do

[newbie] Booting in "I" mode - attn Mikkel/Frank - originally USB card reader thread

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hi Mikkel Finally remembered your email and went back and tried the above. I am in Mandrake after not starting ALSA. It also hung at "starting sendmail" so delected that too. Yes I had a problem booting a while back when following some instructions to attempt to get a USB mouse going. I had

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-27 Thread et
On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:30 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > On Saturday 26 March 2005 03:56 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > > system acting weird again > > kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error > > so i started it in a terminal got this message > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ > > kmail > > QObject::con

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-27 Thread Robert Yu
http://www.zarb.org/~trem/easyurpmi/ Willl this site update my Linux? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com _

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 08:19, Leaf wrote: > On Sunday 27 March 2005 06:26, Jason Oakley wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find > > any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. > > It'd be nice to use for setting up

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-27 Thread Leaf
On Sunday 27 March 2005 06:26, Jason Oakley wrote: > Hi. > > I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find > any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. > It'd be nice to use for setting up connections to Samba shares on my > FreeBSD server. >

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Lee Wiggers wrote: On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I sugge

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 27 Mar 2005 03:58, Lee Wiggers wrote: > > Members have been talking about Gwenview. May be what you need. > If you go for GwenView, read the TWiki page first - you need the latest version of some packages. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visit

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-26 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 16:08:01 -0800 Erylon Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: > | Dear All > | > | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a > | picture. Any suggestions? > | > | Thanks in advance, > | > | Paul > > May I su

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 March 2005 19:36, OOzy Pal wrote: > Dears > > I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade > to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see > a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform > better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. Yeah, I would move to a

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Thread riccardo
On Sunday 27 March 2005 03:36 am, OOzy Pal wrote: > I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade > to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see > a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform > better with Linux do to the Cache _ ~ someone with dee

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Thread Erylon Hines
On Saturday 26 March 2005 09:32 pm, Tom wrote: | OOzy Pal wrote: | > Dears | > | > I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade | > to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see | > a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform | > better with Linux do to the Cache. Please he

Re: [newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-26 Thread Jason Oakley
Thanks to all whom answered. Got this one solved now! Jason Oakley wrote: Hi. I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. It'd be nice to use for setting up connections to Samba shares o

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Thread Tom
OOzy Pal wrote: Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. Your AMD 1.3 vs. a Celery is a toss up in synthetic benchmarks.

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
re ways, I just wondered if the info was recorded to make my task a little easier. Again, greatly appreciate your input. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213 ___

Re: [newbie] df table file

2005-03-26 Thread mike
SnapafunFrank wrote: > When within my system I issue the following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# df > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda5 966M 714M 203M 78% / > /dev/hda1 966M 14M 903M 2% /boot > /dev/hda6 9.4G 5.1G 4.0G 57

[newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Thread OOzy Pal
Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? _

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi Mikkel: Rosemary has sent me directly some info which I think you ought to be privy to. Her lilo.conf gives the "devfs=nomount" append only on the one she appears able to boot with. ( albeit that it stalls at ALSA later ) Her append lines also include " resume=/mnt/hda8"

[newbie] Linneighborhood

2005-03-26 Thread Jason Oakley
Hi. I've installed Linneighborhood on my MDK 10.1 installation. I can't find any icons for it in my MD-K-DE menu so I don't know how to configure it. It'd be nice to use for setting up connections to Samba shares on my FreeBSD server. TIA Wan

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-26 Thread Bambang Gunawan
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 19:44:43 -0500, JoeHill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:56:59 -0800 > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > > system acting weird again > > No, KDE is acting normally. Fer fsck's sake, man, yer a rebel, a 'don't take > no > shit' Southern man (I think

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 26 March 2005 03:56 pm, Aron Smith wrote: > system acting weird again > kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error > so i started it in a terminal got this message > [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ > kmail > QObject::connect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) > QObject:

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-26 Thread Aron Smith
On Saturday 26 March 2005 04:44 pm, JoeHill wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:56:59 -0800 > > Aron Smith disseminated the following: > > system acting weird again > > No, KDE is acting normally. Fer fsck's sake, man, yer a rebel, a 'don't > take no shit' Southern man (I think), start acting like one

Re: [newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-26 Thread JoeHill
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 15:56:59 -0800 Aron Smith disseminated the following: > system acting weird again No, KDE is acting normally. Fer fsck's sake, man, yer a rebel, a 'don't take no shit' Southern man (I think), start acting like one and use a different freakin' WM! Sheesh. Have you ever, even *

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
27;m learning heaps off things I did'nt need to know before, so am staying very interested in helping Rosemary out. I've also started another thread " df table file " . If you get a chance, see if you can assist with this one please. -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTI

Re: [newbie] Updating your Free Mandrakelinux

2005-03-26 Thread Greg Meyer
%^$#*^$ing gmail users :p On Saturday 26 March 2005 08:55 am, Robert Yu wrote: > What's a good way of updating your free version of Mandrake? > > I've only thought of two: > - using a higher version of a Mandrake CD > - updating through updating programs > - others? My favorite way is to change m

[newbie] df table file

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
x27;m unable to do this when I'm NOT within the system: So, is there a file on the system that could simply give me this info by simply reading it ? -- Newbie Seeking USER_FUNCTIONALITY always! Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered

Re: [newbie] Program to save a selected part of a picture

2005-03-26 Thread Erylon Hines
On Friday 25 March 2005 12:09 pm, Paul Smith wrote: | Dear All | | I am looking for a (simple) program to save a selected part of a | picture. Any suggestions? | | Thanks in advance, | | Paul May I suggest ImageMagik? It is on your disks, has lots of features (resize, crop, sharpen, color balanc

[newbie] Kmail will not run

2005-03-26 Thread Aron Smith
system acting weird again kmail comes up then terminates with fatal error so i started it in a terminal got this message [EMAIL PROTECTED] aron]$ kmail QObject::connect: No such signal KMHeaders::itemAdded(QListViewItem*) QObject::connect: (sender name: 'headers') QObject::connect: (receiver n

[newbie] USB Mouse, Browser, Log on/Off, etc

2005-03-26 Thread Jason Oakley
Howdy. I've just installed 10.1 I've not used MDK before, but have experience with Solaris and FreeBSD. I'm trying to learn how MDK does everything via gui. Every time I boot my computer (whether as root or a normal user) my USB mouse doesn't work. I have to use TAB and cursor keys and ENTER to

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 22:33, Stephen Kühn wrote: > On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:35, Simon wrote: > > I am running the following cron job: > > > > /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Rkhunter Check" > > 2>&1 > > > > I get the following message : > > Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 23:35, Simon wrote: > I am running the following cron job: > > /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Rkhunter Check" 2>&1 > > I get the following message : > Output from command /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s > "Rkhunter Check" 2>&1 .. > /bin/

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: > >>I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I > >>get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' > >>I do have Kwrite installed. >

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 09:42 am, eric jackson wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > No, that's all it says. > > Any one know if it's possible to uninstall and re-install Konsole? > > Eric Jackson Follow the menu System|Configuration|Packaging|Remov

Re: [newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread et
On Saturday 26 March 2005 11:46 am, Linda & Ken Bowmer wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the > above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. > > I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I > have receive

Re: [newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:46, Linda & Ken Bowmer wrote: > Hi, > > I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the > above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. > > I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I > have received thi

[newbie] YOUR MESSAGE #57288 - IDE CONTROLLER PROBLEM

2005-03-26 Thread Linda & Ken Bowmer
Hi, I wondered if you could send me a copy of your message 57288, on the above subject, from Mail Archive. It appears to have been deleted. I am installing new hard drive (Samsung 6.4G) and during the set up I have received this message "General failure on the integrated secondary IDE controller

Re: [newbie] MD 10.1 & KDE 3.2 slow starting of programs

2005-03-26 Thread Markus Niemi
Hi, thanks for help. I added hostname to this file and now KDE programs start in few seconds. :-) Unfortunately second problem appeared. Mouse cursor freezes now and then, and sometimes whole X crashes so that only reset helps. I moved my mouse (Logitech Cordless MouseMan Optical USB) from usb

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:53, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > The reason has to do with X server security. Normally, only the user > that "owns" the current X secession can have programs "connect" to it. > Starting an X based program requires that it connect to an X server. > Now, the user that is

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the c

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 17:42, eric jackson wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: > >> I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an > >> error message saying KDEinit can'

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 09:33:30 -0800, John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandra

Re: [newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:51, Simon wrote: > I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I > get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' > I do have Kwrite installed. > Any ideas please. > Thanks, > Simon. Yes - I've no idea why it happens, but the cure is

Re: [newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread John Wilson
On March 26, 2005 08:11 am, eric jackson wrote: > I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an > error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other > terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept > any input from the keyb

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:35, Mr. Geek wrote: > Anne; Take a look at the title bar in OpenOffice. Go to > Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org, and open that section. Look for a > subsection called "External Programs" and change the settings to match > your preferences. > > I know you have to be logged in

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Anne Wilson
ve. > > It has been a wile sence I have read the "Welcome to Newbie list" > message, but isn't there a link to the TWiki site in the message? > There is. I wonder if anyone ever bothers to read the message. It was put together after a lot of thought about what new list

Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 16:35, Derek Jennings wrote: > > MandrakeControlCentre>Network>Internet to set a hostname > > If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourself, then your ISP > is doing it via DNS. To stop it, edit > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever) and ad

Re: [newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 16:20, Simon wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ > > how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my > mac?? address? > > Simon. MandrakeControlCentre>Network>Internet to set a hostname If you did not set your MAC address as the hostname yourse

Re: [newbie] Assistance from newbies needed

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
l have. It has been a wile sence I have read the "Welcome to Newbie list" message, but isn't there a link to the TWiki site in the message? Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

[newbie] changing host/user name???

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] simon]$ how do I change the above to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of my mac?? address? Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xE94E2292 _

[newbie] Re: LDAP server

2005-03-26 Thread Anthony Brooks
Derek Jennings wrote: > Install the drakwizard package and then start Mandrake Control Centre > There will be a new server section. > In there is a wizard to set up LDAP for you. Thanks Derek for the reply. I should of been a little more specific. I'm still running 10.0 on my server. I do have a

[newbie] Konsole won't open

2005-03-26 Thread eric jackson
I recently installed 10.1. For some reason Konsole won't open. I get an error message saying KDEinit can't open Konsole. I tried using the other terminal program that Mandrake installed. It will open but it won't accept any input from the keyboard. Any help you can offer would be appreciate

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the "cd" it said "home not set" so I added "/" after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been "~"! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs, now see only hda2,

[newbie] Editing files as SU with Kword

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
I cannot open files in order to edit them when I am in Konqueror as SU. I get an error message :KDEInit could not launch 'kwrite' I do have Kwrite installed. Any ideas please. Thanks, Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=g

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Simon
On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 15:17, Derek Jennings wrote: > > mailx > That's it Derek, I installed the missing mail program and all works fine now. Thanks to Chris and your good self. Simon. -- Linux Counter number 359744. http://counter.li.org/ GnuPG Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get

Re: [newbie] OT - OOo in Windows

2005-03-26 Thread julie
On Saturday, March 26, 2005, Anne Wilson wrote: > Sorry for this, but I need some urgent help.  Tomorrow I have to install OOo > under Windows for my daughter.  I'm trying to woo her, kicking and screaming, > from her use of Lotus WordPro.  I've installed it here under Win4Lin so that > I can l

Re: [newbie] Halt/Reboot buttons not available at Login Screen

2005-03-26 Thread Duncan Anderson
Russel Dains wrote: I have just installed Mandrake 10.1. I am unable to reboot or shutdown the system from the login screen. The only available option is to type reboot or halt in a command line. Any suggestions? Thanks for your help. Another solution is to change your display manager. You c

Re: [newbie] LDAP server

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:25, Anthony Brooks wrote: > I'm trying to setup a LDAP server. I've installed the server package and > phpLDAPAdmin but I have no clue on what I'm doing. I've googled and looked > at faq's but I was just wondering if there is an easy tutorial somewhere > that I could lo

Re: [newbie] Mail cron job output.

2005-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 March 2005 14:38, Simon wrote: > On Saturday 26 Mar 2005 14:15, Derek Jennings wrote: > > Try > > /usr/bin/rkhunter -c | /bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] -s "Rkhunter > > Check" 2>&1 > > > > If that does not work check the mail package is installed. > > Derek I tried that but it failed wi

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