Re: [newbie] USB 2

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

Re: [newbie] USB 2

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

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

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

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-11 Thread john
frengoGorgia wrote: Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: Hello Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. -- ** (process:7390)

Re: [newbie] mandriva future?

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

Re: [newbie] installed perl modules

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

Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

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

Re: [newbie] installed perl modules

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

Re: [newbie] Installing new monitor

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

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

Re: [newbie] kde 3.4 install

2005-04-10 Thread frengoGorgia
Il dom, 2005-04-10 alle 20:33, john ha scritto: > Hello > Installed kde 3.4 and applications disappeared on menus. I installed > through mandrake control center and everything installed ok per message. I > ran update-menus -v and the following message came up. > -- > ** (process:7390): CRITIC

Re: [newbie] mandriva quickstart guide + faq

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

Re: [newbie] cant unsubscribe

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

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

Re: [newbie] Installation (program) problems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

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

Re: [newbie] Using the " rm " command

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] 400MHz enough video power?

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

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

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

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-09 Thread SnapafunFrank
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. Ubuntu for example advertises "humanity ont

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

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

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

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

Re: [newbie] PGP Package

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

Re: [newbie] PGP Package

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

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

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

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

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

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread john
Paul wrote: Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake 10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance fo

Re: [newbie] Email and Firefox

2005-04-09 Thread Paul
Op Sat, 09 Apr 2005 09:55:45 -0400 schreef john: >How would I go about setting firefox so that the mail button on the >toolbar opens thunderbird instead of evolution? I have tb set to >default in kde control center.Both are 1.02 versions on a mandrake >10.1 desktop.Thanks in advance for help.

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

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

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

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

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

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

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

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

Re: [newbie] 10.1 and Skype.

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

Re: [newbie] Re: ark & rar

2005-04-09 Thread Q.H. Wang
Many thanks Anne. I really don't realize it's the problem of replying posts directly to me, not the list. I thought it has caused some other problems. Now I'm clear. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to htt

Re: [newbie] Re: ark & rar

2005-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 11:52, Q.H. Wang wrote: > > Q, if you delete your "reply-to" address, it would be easier for > > people on the Mandrake/Mandriva lists to respond to your posts. > > Hi Miark, > > Many thanks for your suggestion. Now I have removed my address from the > "reply-to". In fact I

Re: [newbie] Adobe Reader

2005-04-09 Thread Q.H. Wang
> Are you running KDE 3.4, Miark? Cannot it be caused by KDE 3.4? Well, > it is just a suspicion, because I think I have tried everything to get > the Acrobat Reader plugin working, but with no luck. > Hi Paul, I guess your doubt might be sound as I use KDE 3.2 and AR 7.0 does work well with m

Re: [newbie] Problems with streaming audio/video in Xine

2005-04-09 Thread Graham Watkins
Graham Watkins wrote: Hi again, Just installed Xine in the hopes of overcoming the limitations i seem to have with Kaffeine. However still no sound with .mov files. Also, when I try to connect to radio stations, I get the following error: Error loading library: cook.so.6.0 These libraries are ins

Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Smith
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 mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk > > > > Pau

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-09 Thread Paul Smith
On Apr 9, 2005 3:38 AM, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [newbie] Web page hints?

2005-04-09 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 08 Apr 2005 23:47, et wrote: > have you installed drakwizard? just run the apache web server wizard from > mcc, and when it asks you to put in the root, just change it > to /var/www/html/Design. > > or are you asking about editing /etc/www/httpd/conf/httpd2.conf? as root > and restarting

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 roo

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 adv

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) > > opti

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

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 > > var

Re: [newbie] Problem with Acrobat Plugin with Mozilla

2005-04-08 Thread Chris
On Friday 08 April 2005 04:54 am, 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 > variabl

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: 'urpm

Re: [newbie] comparing mandrake based linux distributions

2005-04-08 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Saturday 09 Apr 2005 10:53, 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] 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

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] 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.

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 mailingli

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] 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] 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

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] 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] 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 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=136543&st=15&#entry596612, > > But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. Thanks, Q.H.. It did not help,

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 dia

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 t

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 http

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=136543&st=15&#entry596612, But I don't know whether that's gonna solve your problem. Bests, Q.H. Want to buy your Pack or

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 embed

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 >

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 che

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 > >

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 i

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 a

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 > > dri

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 > dri

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 blue

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] 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 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 1

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 1

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