Re: [newbie-it] SoftModem Sidin

2000-06-11 Per discussione freefred
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, a day in the life, Luca Dentella wrote: ciao! Dovrei far vedere il mio WebRunner 56k interno a Linux Mandrake 7. Alla Sidin (che distribuisce la marca Atlantis) mi hanno detto che il modem *dovrebbe* funzionare ma non fanno supporto x questo S.O. Quindi mi rivolgo

Re: [newbie-it] SoftModem Sidin

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 01:52:39AM +0200, freefred wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, a day in the life, Luca Dentella wrote: ciao! Dovrei far vedere il mio WebRunner 56k interno a Linux Mandrake 7. Alla Sidin (che distribuisce la marca Atlantis) mi hanno detto che il modem *dovrebbe*

Re: [newbie-it] SoftModem Sidin

2000-06-11 Per discussione Giuseppe Boi
E' un winmodem, ma credo che la lucent abbia messo fuori i drivers anche per linux. Scusa se mi intrometto, ma come si fa a installarli...? Grazie.. GIUSE

[newbie] lilo troubles again (sorry!)

2000-06-11 Per discussione root
i'd like to thank dave charles the folks that offered help my lilo/ win2000 problem. unfortunately, i'm still having trouble with it :( i installed the latest lilo build and went into linuxconf and told lilo to use the linear option (which supposedley takes care of reading larger hard discs

[newbie] Freewwweb Error

2000-06-11 Per discussione Marc
I know some people on this list are on freewwweb. That is what I am trying to use. It has been about roughly 7 hours since I went to the site and signed up. I put freewwweb.com for the name server. Is that right? I also use 216.70.64.1 and 216.70.64.2 as my dns servers provided by freewwweb. When

[newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Lance
ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened, but i have been booting into mandrake with a floppy since lilo won't

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo LinuxMandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione michael
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote: I live in Toronto, Ontario Canada. As you know products cost almost twice as much as in the United States. Do you have a ball park figure for the Plextor IDE? Roman R-man, www.pricewatch.com Eunice Thompson wrote: Roman, I've got a Plextor

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Bill Gerber
The news section on the kvirc site (http://www.kvirc.bz.nu/ -new url) states that KDE2 support is a compile time option so if you want that later it's better to d/l the tarball now. Bill Fran Parker wrote: Actually I am running it in the original KDE that came with Mandrake 7.0 (Air)

[newbie] Probs with Abiword

2000-06-11 Per discussione Andrew Scotchmer
Hi, Just had a look at Abiword and have come across a problem. Does anyone else when starting Abiword have half the screen blanked out? I can only see half the document because of this and the grey area even extends out of the window and onto the desktop where it stays until I refresh. It is a

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo Linux Mandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well under Linux? My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733. OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4. Hi Roman, A good deal would always be SCSI. That has the least setup hassles. I have an

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Same hereI don't shutdown the computer...I only reboot and shut off the computer from there, I hate getting error messages! :) Bambi Oops, it was not APM in the BIOS, but the APMD daemon that Dacia said that was disabled!! Sorry! Paul -- Read the

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Fran Parker wrote: Same hereI don't shutdown the computer...I only reboot and shut off the computer from there, I hate getting error messages! :) BTW, I can shutdown and restart, and I do NOT get this problem. Odd, eh? Did you all get the message Dacia sent in? In it

Re: [newbie] 7.1 won't install to my scsi hd X4 probs

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On 10 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: copy the ide installation to an identical partition/dir structure on the scsi. I've already told grub that there is a linux there. But how do I create the RieserFS w/o going thru booting to the cd? On www.freshmeat.net you can search for the info

Re: [newbie] CDROM

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, alice chen wrote: Hi Alice, if you are in a console, do ls -l /dev/cdrom and write down what the output is. We need to know where the cdrom entry points to. When you start mandrake, in the boot text there is a spot where the system identifies the disks, looks something

Re: [newbie] ISDN CARD

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Marco Antonio [iso-8859-1] Pérez Camacho wrote: Hi. I have problem with card isdn, ASUSCOM, I have setup this card, perfectly but I insert the command in prompt : bash: isdn start Request Unknow driver y! Good ISDN support is at http://www.wurtel.demon.nl It helped me

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance wrote: ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened, but i have been booting into

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all. I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to read/write my linux file system but the system has not loaded linux from my hard drive in that case. It is a live linux file system

[newbie] Remote printer. Am I this shtoopid?

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
Hi all! I am losing it, I think. Looked all over MUO and can't find it. The situation: 1 linux machine, hostname p350.merlin. It has a working printer locally, with /etc/printcap set up okay, queue is in /var/spool/lpd/lp. Printtool nicely writes a testpage to the printer, all fine.

[newbie] USB ISDN, wont work

2000-06-11 Per discussione Jani Andersson
Hi, Im a real newbie at this... But how do I get my USB ISDN adapter work under mandrake linux? Does it support mandrake?

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi Dacia. Hmm. I'll go into my Bios and try that then. Power management -is- working here though. My system goes through the stages, the screen- saver kicks in (love that Matrix one!), then a few minutes later, the monitor goes black, etc, etc,... I do

Re: [newbie] No window manager in X...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Sam Dunham wrote: I installed Mandrake 7.0 (severl times) and everything seems to work great, except that I don't get a Window Manager when X starts. My Graphical login comes up on a plain Jane X screen, I log in, and I get two terminal emulation boxes, but no Window

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione kevin
Hi folks, I just want to say a Big thankyou to everyone who has helped me. I gave up using wine, and d/loaded kvirc 2.0.0. I ran the ./configure and it told me I needed to update my QT, which I did. I got and installed 2.2.1. took a long time to make. I looked at

Re: [newbie] Olde Money

2000-06-11 Per discussione Glyn Millington
I know this thread is way off-topic, but you have my curiosity up now...doesn't "old money" also refer to a well-to-do family whose fortunes have existed for generations, as opposed to "new money" where someone has just acquired a fortune? Just wondering! ;-) Yes! --

Re: [newbie] More on my SCSI hd problems

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On 10 Jun 2000, Tymanthius Rune Speak wrote: I did a text install, and it simply bombed shortly after trying to detect the hd's. I jumped thru the consoles, and found that it's having scsi parity err's. What I don't understand is why. This hd, while an older type is 'new' in that I am the

Re: [newbie] USB ISDN, wont work

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jani Andersson wrote: Hi, Im a real newbie at this... But how do I get my USB ISDN adapter work under mandrake linux? Does it support mandrake? Systems support hardware, hardware usually does not support a system. (Dreams...) Which version of Mandrake are you

Re: [newbie] overwrote LILO, can't access linux

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ed Tharp
can you, when in a console window or text prompt in the linux file system type lilo Dacia and AzureRose wrote: Well, the problem is that I cannot load linux at all. I have an emergency boot/rescue disk that allows me to read/write my linux file system but the system has not

Re: [newbie] Freewwweb Error

2000-06-11 Per discussione David G. Thiessen
dont forget that when you login, your username is the actually your userid AND the domain... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Marc wrote: I know some people on this list are on freewwweb. That is what I am trying to use. It has been about roughly 7 hours since I went to the site and signed up. I put

Re: [newbie] Probs with Abiword

2000-06-11 Per discussione Glyn Millington
Hi - I've got the same problem but alas no solution. When you say "others", what do you mean? Do you know about the wc (word count command) that is part of the system? It can be set up to work inside Vim and others. Can let you have the relevant snippet from my .vimrc file if that would

Re: [newbie] Remote printer. Am I this shtoopid?

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ed Tharp
do you have any firewalls setup??? Paul wrote: Hi all! I am losing it, I think. Looked all over MUO and can't find it. The situation: 1 linux machine, hostname p350.merlin. It has a working printer locally, with /etc/printcap set up okay, queue is in /var/spool/lpd/lp. Printtool

Re: [newbie] Freewwweb Error

2000-06-11 Per discussione AOLShopGAM
In a message dated 6/11/00 12:55:30 AM Mountain Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know some people on this list are on freewwweb. That is what I am trying to use. It has been about roughly 7 hours since I went to the site and signed up. I put freewwweb.com for the name server. Is

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Lance No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of 4 install disk, but a Rescue disk you made in Win2000). If you

Re: [newbie] Console Dial Up

2000-06-11 Per discussione Kenny
use Wvdial. Its fast and easy. It finds your modem and configures it automatically. If you need it let me know and I"ll send it to you Kenny - Original Message - From: "Marc" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 7:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Console Dial Up

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Charles A Edwards wrote: Lance No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of Hi Charles,

Re: [newbie] Any one selling Linux Mandrake 7.1 CD in Toronto

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ed Tharp
the download is a free upgrade you know and you have my permission to download it to your hearts content, and consider this e-mail my personal (since I am unemployeed) "included a voucher for a free update or upgrade." Ed Romanator wrote: Hi John, Oh no. I just shelled out about $75

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
Hi Ronald, I have a dual boot system with Win98 and Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Air). Actually I have a Celeron 366mhz ...I do not use power-management. I have one hard drive that doesn't recover from power-management on the hard drives (old 540 meg - my 3rd drive - is actually mainly a place holder

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Paul wrote: Oops, it was not APM in the BIOS, but the APMD daemon that Dacia said that was disabled!! Sorry! Paul Argh, I missed that too...anyways, I turned off power management in Bios and of course, it made nary a difference. So...how do I disable the APMD daemon? ;-) Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
Thanks Paul will look into that end of things. I didn't think I had that enabled in the bios. Bambi Paul wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi Dacia. Hmm. I'll go into my Bios and try that then. Power management -is- working here though. My system goes through the stages,

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Paul wrote: APM is a service in Linux. You can disable it by running 'setup' as root, it is in 'system services'. Paul Ah, got it. I just printed out your reply, will try that next. Ignore my earlier question! ;-)

SV: [newbie] USB ISDN, wont work

2000-06-11 Per discussione Jani Andersson
Can I in some easy way upgrade to 7.1, I have 7.0 and dont want to download 1 gig of data... - Ursprungligt meddelande - Från: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skickat: den 11 juni 2000 13:47 Ämne: Re: [newbie] USB ISDN, wont work On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jani Andersson

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Oops, it was not APM in the BIOS, but the APMD daemon that Dacia said that was disabled!! Sorry! Argh, I missed that too...anyways, I turned off power management in Bios and of course, it made nary a difference. So...how do I disable the APMD

Re: [newbie] Linksys LNE 100tx problems w/ mdk7

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ed Tharp
did you set it up as a "tulip" driver? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried setting up a Linksys LNE100TX NIC on my HP / MDK7 / Win98 machine. I have it up at boot as seen in my dmesg, but when I run ifconfig, eth0 states Broadcast and not Up Broadcast. I can't ping it from my internal network

Re: [newbie] courtesy implied in this list?(Final from Bob)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ed Tharp
here is "Ed's" attempt at courtesy; "PLEASE, please, let this thread die." Ed Bob wrote: It is still my opinion, that if you wish to express your appreciation you should address the "Thank You" to the individual whom assisted you in solving the problem. I nor anyone else has any

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase fo LinuxMandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione Romanator
Hi Paul, SCSI sounds good. I'll check it out. Thanks, Roman Paul wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Romanator wrote: I'm looking for a CD writer. What would be a good brand that runs well under Linux? My computer is a Dell Dimensions XPSB 733. OS is Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP and WinNT4.

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Per discussione Colin L. Whipple
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Lance No offense meant to Paul but do not follow his advise for repairing your MBR. It Will Not Work for Win2000. The only way to restore your MBR or any part of Win2000 is if you have created a Win2000 Rescue disk(not the set of 4 install disk, but a

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Colin L. Whipple
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi folks, I just want to say a Big thankyou to everyone who has helped me. I gave up using wine, and d/loaded kvirc 2.0.0. I ran the ./configure and it told me I needed to update my QT, which I did. I got and installed 2.2.1. took a long time to make. I

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
It is QT 2.1.1 Probably just a typo. Bambi "Colin L. Whipple" wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: Hi folks, I just want to say a Big thankyou to everyone who has helped me. I gave up using wine, and d/loaded kvirc 2.0.0. I ran the ./configure and it told me I needed to update my

Re: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione kevin
Is 2.2.1 correct? The highest one I can see is 2.1.1. Sorry for the typo its 2.1.1 Kev

[newbie] Is Intel 2100 modem with Linux?

2000-06-11 Per discussione Roger Pithers
I am soon emigrating to Minneapolis USA from the UK. In Minneapolis US West do a DSL deal which includes an Intel 2100 modem. Could anyone please tell me if this would be compatible with Linux-Mandrake, or if not, if I can get a compatible modem which will work with DSL. Many thanks Rogert

Re: [Re: [Re: [Re: [newbie] 7.1 -- 2-CD download mystery -- How?]]]

2000-06-11 Per discussione Jaguar
Check to bottom of Tymanthius' message...that was what I was replying to. Digital Wokan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in the Phoenix area, so what you mean by trading eludes me. Jaguar wrote: Well since I am waiting to get on Disability (hence NOT working), the highlight of my day is

Re: [newbie] Denis et al: Q about procmail

2000-06-11 Per discussione Denis HAVLIK
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: :~I use a Python script called Getmail to pull mail from the server, which :~drops the mail directly in my maildir system. :~Does Procmail only work with Fetchmail and the likes, or does it also :~operate on mail that is in the maildir already? :~ It can do

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)

2000-06-11 Per discussione medpen
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Paul wrote: On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Lance wrote: ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000 Best thing now, is to hope you have a DOS bootfloppy that gives you

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase foLinuxMandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione Romanator
I will check it out. Thanks Michael, Roman michael wrote: On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, you wrote: I live in Toronto, Ontario Canada. As you know products cost almost twice as much as in the United States. Do you have a ball park figure for the Plextor IDE? Roman R-man,

[newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-11 Per discussione Richard B. Pyne
It is sad that such a good product has such a worthless mailing list. I posted a serious install error a few days ago asking for help. I got one response and it was only a smart remark about the error message. I had hoped that this list was serious about helping solve problems, but I was

[newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
I just tried to view a Quicktime 3 (*.mov) file, and I can't. Not in Netscape, nor with the action /xanim combo that comes with Mandrake. Do I need a newer version of xanim, or is there something else I should be doing? Thanks! PS Boy, was this mailing list designed with people like me in mind

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione flupke
Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and registers caused by a page default or something at the end of a shutdown. I have the same

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione J Walker
Even though this was not asked, I volunteer the question anyway, since I just installed lxdoom. lxdoom from Mandrake does not come with lxmusserv, which is necessary to play the music for Doom (IMHO, one of its best features). It can be found at:

[newbie] ANNOUNCE: Sunday topics on http://linuxpole.com

2000-06-11 Per discussione Denis HAVLIK
Hi, folks - Sunday lecture at (http://linuxpole.com): - * Newbie Light - What do you think of Civilemes proposal? * WHY THE HECK DO WE WANT WIN MODEMS ANYWAY? (now, if this does not start flame wars...) And if you missed my saturdays post:

[newbie] Which installation option to use if you delete Version 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione Romanator
Hi everybody, I am using Linux Mandrake 7.0 PP. I will be resizing my partition in Version 7.0 with Partition Magic. (Great tool by the way) from 2044 to 4 Gig(Is that enough?). Should I delete the partition first, resize to 4 Gig., and then select new installation or upgrade to Version 7.1?

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-11 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Richardlose the attitude. There are a lot of reasons why you gleaned no help for your problem. First off maybe nobody who read it had anything constructive to say. This list is made up of basically two groups. Folks who need help and folks volunteering their free time to try and help

Re: [newbie] What would be a good CD writer to purchase foLinuxMandrake 7.0

2000-06-11 Per discussione Romanator
Thanks Charles, Talk to you soon. Roman Romanator wrote: Charles, I'll check it. Creative products seem to be quite user friendly. Roman Charles A Edwards wrote: Roman Me again!! I have a Creative Blaster 8432CDRW and using the recomend mode istall both 7.0 and 7.1

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Dacia and AzureRose
That worked on my brother computer. He has a SOYO socket 7 motherboard. I forget the exact model. He disabled apmd and it got better. When I had that same motherboard in my old computer I had to disable Advanced power management in my bios and apmd to get it to stop. Dacia --- Paul [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Dacia and AzureRose
That probably will not work. My brother disabled the apm daemon in linux not advanced power management in his BIOS. I had to do BOTH to make mine work. The easiest way I know to disable the apmd is to open DrakConf, click startup services and uncheck the box by apmd. It won't take affect

Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Anthony Huereca
You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. I just tried to view a Quicktime 3 (*.mov) file, and I can't. Not in Netscape, nor with the action /xanim combo that comes with Mandrake. Do I

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Dacia and AzureRose
hmmm...both of the computers I've seen this problem on had Via chipsets on their motherboards. Dacia --- flupke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
flupke wrote: Sorry, I didn't follow this tread from the begining, so I hope I won't say anything stoopid or something that has already been said. If I understand, the problem here is all the dump of the stack and registers caused by a page default or something at the end of a shutdown. I

Re: [newbie] [Newbie] Microcom Deskporte 28.8P/33.6P parallel connected

2000-06-11 Per discussione Denis HAVLIK
:~ * Thanks for your list, very informative. Have been reading for a couple of :~ weeks but no :~ mention of parallel connected modems :~ :~Mostly because parallel modems are even rarer than serial printers. They exist, :~but it has been about 15 years since I have seen one. Yup. I have never

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)Lance READ NOW

2000-06-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Colin It makes no difference Win2000 can be either FAT or or NTFS and can be changed at will. Without the Rescue disk the Win2000 install disk will see only the partition not its makeup or content and will will not register any as being Win2000 so you will not be able to repair the current

Re: SV: [newbie] USB ISDN, wont work

2000-06-11 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Jani Andersson wrote: Can I in some easy way upgrade to 7.1, I have 7.0 and dont want to download 1 gig of data... The easiest way is the way I am doing it. Find someone with a fast connection and make him download it (which he already did). Otherwise try to locate someone

Re: [newbie] this is an emergency (lilo, mbr, windows...)LanceREAD NOW

2000-06-11 Per discussione Lance
charles: Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, I followed someone's advice on Linuxnewbie.org last night and went into the Win2k recovery console (**I DO NOT have the Win2k rescue floppy discs!!**), I ran the fixmbr and fixboot commands as suggested, and it said it rewrote the mbr ok (to C:). I

[newbie] LNE100tx / Tulip driver again

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ajudgeone
Well, I made a little progress in that I can ping the internal IP (as assigned to eth0) from the machine itself as well as the local host 127.0.0.1. However, I can't get it to ping the other machine and vise versa. I tried a lsmod and it stated that the tulip driver was unused. Is that

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
That could be true flupke, mine is a VIA chipset. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, if I accidentally choose shutdown, I just choose alt-cntrl-del and it finishes it. But if it can be fixed...cool. I will look into it with my system. Thanks, Bambi Now do you you know how to get lxdoom to

Re[2]: [newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Gary
Hi Fran, On Sunday, June 11, 2000, 12:01:55 PM, you hammered out in part about "[newbie] KVirc (Was: Wine problems)": FP Last night I downloaded and 'made' the KVIrc 2. It was so slick! FP Glad you already came up with this solution too. Can you give me a URL for KVIrc2? Really appreciate it.

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ot Ratsaphong
Hi folks, I've just joined the list and have been lurking for the last week just to get a feel for the list. I emphathise with Richard but I don't think the list is worthless. I'm still searching for a list that I can relate to. I'm still hoping I can get some help from this list. I'll do help

RE: [newbie] worthless software innd

2000-06-11 Per discussione Vic
Hmm so basically I am toast, I can't have a news server unless I bogart a news feed from somewhere. What are the server names of the news feeds, maybe I can just bogart a news feed, or like you said, make buddies with someone wth a news feed On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Jose M. Sanchez wrote: In order

[newbie] Mouse Not Detected

2000-06-11 Per discussione Leobardo López
I Need Help. Mandrake is Not Detecting My Mouse, What Can I Do to Configure It By Myself. Thanx. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: [newbie] LNE100tx / Tulip driver again

2000-06-11 Per discussione frank
i use a LNE100TX with mandrake 7.0 without problem...linux recognizes it upon installation...but i've tried 7.1 (an early beta) and it did not recognize the card...i noticed that it listed both a new and an old tulip driver...perhaps you might check to see if you've more than one, and try the

[newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-11 Per discussione Bryan Kim
How do you get kde sounds to work? My sound card is a creative labs awe64, and I set up both the sound card and the midi player. Playmidi, cd player, and play all work. Play in particular can play the .wav files that come with KDE. Thanks for your help.

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Fran Parker wrote: That could be true flupke, mine is a VIA chipset. It doesn't seem to hurt anything, if I accidentally choose shutdown, I just choose alt-cntrl-del and it finishes it. But if it can be fixed...cool. I will look into it with my system. Thanks, Bambi Now do you you

Re: [newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-11 Per discussione Lance
go to kde control center - (should be on your kpanel), sound- system sounds...check the enable system sounds box, then highlight an action on the left, then match it to one on the right that corresponds to that action by selecting it, hit apply, then do that for each sound event you want to use.

Re: [newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
If you haven't done it yet, you need to enable system sounds in KDE Control center under sounds. Bambi Bryan Kim wrote: How do you get kde sounds to work? My sound card is a creative labs awe64, and I set up both the sound card and the midi player. Playmidi, cd player, and play all work.

Re: [newbie] LNE100tx / Tulip driver again

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ajudgeone
Thanks for the reply. It doesn't work on mine for some reason. I really, really, really wish I knew why since I have about eight of these little suckers and I would like to use them. Does it show in Lothar? It doesn't appear in mine.

Re: [newbie] Worthless email list

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
Hi Ot, I don't know if this is what you are looking for but if you look at the KDE control Center under the desktop icon, there is a section called DPMS. I am not sure if it is what you are looking for, but you can enable that and it has standby, suspend, off time and a slider to choose the

[newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Al R
- Original Message - From: Ot Ratsaphong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Worthless email list Hi folks, I've just joined the list and have been lurking for the last week just to get a feel for the list. I

Re: [newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Fran Parker
Hi Al, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I am thankful for this group. I have been directly help and indirectly helped through others experience and solutions. There are a lot of messages each day, but I agree that they are all worth looking over. Bambi Al R wrote: - Original Message

RE: [newbie] Useful Mailing List

2000-06-11 Per discussione Viboon Chaojirapant
Hi, This mailing list has a very useful archive here: http://www.mail-archive.com/newbie@linux-mandrake.com/ So what I usually do is to just keep a few mails that started the thread I am interested in, then to get the rest, I would search the archive. For the topics that I am not interested in

Re: [[newbie] Useful Mailing List (was: Worthless email list)]

2000-06-11 Per discussione Jaguar
From the same place you signed up for the Newbie list...there is a link to the ARCHIVES, they are searchable... HTH Jaguar "Al R" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Ot Ratsaphong [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 5:52 PM Subject:

Re: [newbie] ..it happens and now it happened to me:)

2000-06-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Mark When you say that Xconfigure dumped you out and shut down linux did that occur when it was probing your vid card or when setting your screen res. Charles - Original Message - From: "Mark Wolf" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2000 7:58 PM

Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione michael
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. How can we orchestrate a campaign to persuade the well paid, smart, driven folks at Apple to do so?

Re: [newbie] Need desparate help with linux elf error in Netscape

2000-06-11 Per discussione Vic
How stupid of dialpad to do that, that makes no sense, they would generate revenues from Linux users as well. I think I will harass them a few more times, lets all do it, who is with me, hey for free long distance is it not worth the bothering them? On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:

Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Anthony Huereca wrote: You cannot view Quicktime movies in Linux because Apple hasn't made a player for Linux yet. So the only way you can view it is to boot up Windows. Er...I *can* view Quicktime movies in Linux now, just not Quicktime 3. Thats why I was asking if I needed a newer version

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: hmmm...both of the computers I've seen this problem on had Via chipsets on their motherboards. Dacia Not sure if I have a Via chipset or not? I do have a socket 7 MB, (Gigabyte GA-5AX), and it uses the ALI Aladdin V AGPset... Oh well.

RE: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Lobby http://www.eazel.com/ Most of these guys are Ex-Apple hotshots... -JMS -Original Message- From: michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Quicktime 3 question... On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, you wrote: You

Re: [newbie] Shutdown problem with v7.0...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Fran Parker wrote: Now do you you know how to get lxdoom to work..it says it can't find an IWAD...I have downloaded the shareware 1.8 wad file, I have gone to get the iwad file they had and unzipped it...doom1.wad Anyway it can't find it and I tried to run it in terminal window to see it's

Re: [newbie] Kde sound

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Bryan Kim wrote: How do you get kde sounds to work? My sound card is a creative labs awe64, and I set up both the sound card and the midi player. Playmidi, cd player, and play all work. Play in particular can play the .wav files that come with KDE. Thanks for your help. Hi Bryan. Do you

Re: [newbie] Doom question...

2000-06-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
J Walker wrote: Even though this was not asked, I volunteer the question anyway, since I just installed lxdoom. lxdoom from Mandrake does not come with lxmusserv, which is necessary to play the music for Doom (IMHO, one of its best features). It can be found at: