[newbie-it] Aiuto Kernel!!!

2000-08-16 Per discussione TriOptimum
Volevo provare l'agpgart e le funzioni di accellerazione 3d del driver glx.. avendo io una Matrox g400. Per far ciò ho deciso di installare il nuovo kernel 2.4.0test6 sulla vecchia installazione di Mandrake 2.2.15.. avendo io una sola partizione ResierFs ho dovuto anche scaricare e

[newbie-it] Aiuto GNOME!!!

2000-08-16 Per discussione TriOptimum
Ho installato da ieri la Mandrake 7.1 con file system resierfs (lo dico perchè penso checi possa entrarequalcosa) e ho da subito avuto un grosso problema. Con la Kde va tutto benissimo ma con la Gnome no. Ovvero le icone del Desktop sono tutte"messed up" cioè sputtanatissime.. per la

Re: R: [newbie-it] non riesco a fare il boot della partizione windows NT

2000-08-16 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Luca Caruso wrote: Elimina LILO Dal boot con il comando fdisk /mbr e vedi se riaprte Win NT... Controlla anche che la partizione dove c'e` il boot.ini di NT sia attiva. Grub e lilo dovrebbero essere in grado di avviare anche NT. Pero` io ho sempre usato il loader di NT per avviare anche

Re: [newbie-it] Esperienze su SPARC

2000-08-16 Per discussione michel
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao a tutti! Volevo sapere se qualcuno ha già installato Mandrake 7.1 su sparc e più in particolare su modelli vecchi quali sparc 1+,5 o 10 in quanto io ci sono riuscito ma noto una lentezza abissale anche se con 64mb e un disco veloce(il max

Re: [newbie-it] export

2000-08-16 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Davide wrote: Perche' se definisco un mio prompt per mezzo della variabile d'ambiente PS1 nel file .bash_profile e sempre in .bash_profile metto il comando export PS1, se lancio una nuova shell da quella di login col comando bash la nuova shell ha ancora il prompt di sistema? C'entra

R: [newbie-it] Esperienze su SPARC

2000-08-16 Per discussione BellanA
Io posseggo una sparc 1+ ma penso che la procedura sia identica dal momento che utilizza lo stesso bios (pvram), allora come prima cosa devi avere un cd rom obbligatoriamente SUN e non di altre marche o che comunque tu sia sicuro che venga visto da probe-scsi 100% compatibile con quello SUN; poi

Re: R: [newbie-it] Esperienze su SPARC

2000-08-16 Per discussione michel
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] grazie Spero esserti stato di aiuto e rinnovo il mio AIUTO precedente! si si, peccato che io non ho il cdrom :) Provero' via rete.. quale e' il tuo aiuto precedente? Vorrei sapere chi e' il mandante delle cazzate che faccio... -- Michel

Re: [newbie-it] ip

2000-08-16 Per discussione peppesan
peppesan wrote: Attravero i log si riesce a sapere chi si connette alla macchna , ma non visualizza cosa fa, che directory visita e che file apre..!? Ho creato un account , per impedirli di girare nel sisitema a picimento, e quindi costringerlo a stare nelle directory che gli dico io come

Re: [newbie] No mail sent by Netscape

2000-08-16 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Dennis, Have you tried reinstalling netscape yet? I just checked my /tmp folder and found some references to /nsmail, but nothing with todays' date on them. they're in the form of .html. they appear to be copies of messages I've sent. other than this it sounds like a netscape bug. Mark Dennis

[newbie] ESS Soundcards

2000-08-16 Per discussione Booysen RJ
I have and ESS Soundcard but on boot up if always fails. IRQs, DMA and I/o is correct. Running sndconf also fails on trying to play a test file. Sound runs in KDE. Any Help Cheers R.Booysen

Re: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Eric MC.D
Added one also. Did a setup with fdisk for the partitions and diskdruid for the mount points.(and format !) All goes as a charm. Eric MC Dennis Myers wrote: I have installed a second hard drive on the linux box.It is shown as hdd. Went in and did a mke2fs and made one big partition, hdd1.

[newbie] ADSL Connection

2000-08-16 Per discussione munsing
Help! I am a new Linux Mandrake user and Ihave an ADSL modem connected to a Ethernet card on my machine. How do I connect to the ISP (Singtel Magix) ? In windows98, I had the RAS Session Manager to make the connection. How do I do it in Linux appreciate some good advice... Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Added one also. Did a setup with fdisk for the partitions and diskdruid for the mount points.(and format !) All goes as a charm. Eric MC I can't imagine what the problem is either, _altho_ . Dennis Myers wrote: I have installed a second hard

Re: [newbie] ld-linux.so.

2000-08-16 Per discussione Sevatio Octavio
Run Ktop and ld-linux.so should be listed. Select it and kill. Seve Original Message On 8/16/00, 12:18:14 AM, Hugo Kuylman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] ld-linux.so.: Hi, Does anyone know what the above process is and how to kill it? Sometimes after my wife is done with

[newbie] I am having problems with Actiontec 56k V.90 Modem

2000-08-16 Per discussione Jeff Moulton
Hi, I can not get my Actiontec 56k V.90 Modem to be detected / installed. I have a new Gateway 2150 laptop. If someone could please help I would appreciate it. I have just installed 7.1 Do I have a WinModem and don''t know it? When I use kppp I get device is busy The settings in Windows

Re: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Doug McGarrett
If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance) /dev/hdc4. At 09:40 PM 08/14/2000 -0700, you wrote: I had to subscribe again in order to get any of the emails again. Any help with the zip drive would be great. I have a

Re: [newbie] isdn

2000-08-16 Per discussione Paul
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Ian Nelson wrote: Hi I am trying to configure ISDN (Internal BT Speedway card) with Mandrake 7.0 I have found the card is an "AVM A1 (Fritz)" and have edited /etc/isdn/profile/card/mycard accordingly I had a look at the system info to give io address and IRQ But the

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-16 Per discussione Mark Hillary
The Nvidia Geforce GTS2 is about the best card you can get. (and not to much trouble to set up). if you get one, go to www.evil3d.net and look for an artical by avatar (think that is his name), it will tell you what you need to do to set them up for mandrake 7.0 ,and 7.1 (yes the setup is

Re: [newbie] ADSL Connection

2000-08-16 Per discussione Bob
Try these to sites. Should be a similar setup. http://www.panix.com/~dfoster/prog/linux/pppoe.html http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~akonstan/infospeed/ At 11:37 PM 8/16/2000 +0800, you wrote: Help! I am a new Linux Mandrake user and I have an ADSL modem connected to a Ethernet card on my

Re: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Goldenpi
If its primary slave, shouldn't it be hdb1, not hdd1? I know all those names, haveing 4 hard drives in my system, includeing cd, with 7 partitions. - Original Message - From: Dennis Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 4:05 AM Subject: [newbie]

RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Fw: zip disk drive There was an excellent help a while back on this list. Look in the archives and search under zip and you should find the answers I used to set up my zip drive. I would give you the data now but am at work on a win machine and don't have the access. Just

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Per discussione Dacia and AzureRose
which video card are you trying top use with quake3? I actually had quite a bit of luck with that game so I might be able top help you out. Dacia --- Mike Tracy Holt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree with you; I've been frustrated for the last four months that I haven't been able

Re: [newbie] ld-linux.so.

2000-08-16 Per discussione Hugo Kuylman
Hugo Kuylman wrote: Hi, Does anyone know what the above process is and how to kill it? Sometimes after my wife is done with her 'net surfing I find the system running real slow and when I run top it says that three of these processes are running, using nearly all of the cpu resources,

[newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-16 Per discussione Cindy Bartorillo
Tom Brinkman wrote: Most, including myself, believe NS is still the most viable browser currently available for Linux. Also that the best way to avoid problems it still has, is to not use it for mail and news. Do you, or does anyone else here, have a recommendation for a good mail

Re: [newbie] I am having problems with Actiontec 56k V.90 Modem

2000-08-16 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
Jeff Moulton wrote: Hi, I can not get my Actiontec 56k V.90 Modem to be detected / installed. I have a new Gateway 2150 laptop. If someone could please help I would appreciate it. I have just installed 7.1 Do I have a WinModem and don''t know it? When I use kppp I get device is

Re: [newbie] ld-linux.so.

2000-08-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
since I actually received six (seven, if you count an undeliverable notice) replies, You can ignore those, they're just bounces off of various undeliverable addresses that remain subscribed to this list. I will just reply to my initial message to thank you all for the information. Thank

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Per discussione Goldenpi
Right there, linux is a great os for expert users but before it goes into common use it must get easeier. For a start it must get that fast install that windows has, and wine must be improved so it will run old windows software. When it runs AOL it should be able to run most things. It will need

Re: [newbie]

2000-08-16 Per discussione GAPrichard
I'm not a gamer. What is FSAA? -Gary- In a message dated 8/15/2000 10:42:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: snip I've found that you can use its FSAA in almost any game that isn't brand spankin' new to great affect. I mean that games without any jaggies or pixel

[newbie] KIRQ

2000-08-16 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
Where do I find KIRQ? I heard someone mentioned about KIRQ. I tried doing a search on KIRQ but to no available. Rob

[newbie] KICQ

2000-08-16 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
I found it... I misspelled it with KIRQ... LOL

RE: [newbie] Second hard drive

2000-08-16 Per discussione Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie] Second hard drive Two replies and both are right. I set it up on the secondary (ide1) so it is hdd as the secondary slave. Sorry for giving out the wrong info when asking for help. Only serves to confuse the issue. I am going to download diskdrake and try that for

RE: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Per discussione webmaster
I don't mean to be argumentative .. but I disagree with one of your ideas. The Crown for fastest installation of an OS belongs to Linux. Linux-Mandrake has got to be THE easiest installation when the correct hardware is matched with the OS. A fully usable office desktop is complete after very

Re: [newbie] ssh2 for Mandrake?

2000-08-16 Per discussione =*=
ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/mandrake-crypto/ That is one place to go for OpenSSH. Get openssh, openssl, and openssh-clients. Go to the directory that corresponds to your Mandrake distro number. That should do it. They are all Mandrake optimized RPM's and a cinch to install. Phil On Wed, 16 Aug

[newbie] No GnoRPM in 7.1?

2000-08-16 Per discussione Rick
I recently installed 7.1 from the MacMillan 7.1 Deluxe version of Mandrake. One of my favorite utilities has always been GnoRPM. Unfortunately, it hasn't been installed and I can't find it on any of the 7 CDs. Was it not included in this version? Thanks, Rick -- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] ADSL Connection

2000-08-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
You need to determine whether your ISP uses straight TCP/IP or pppoe )PPP-over-ethernet) as the protocol. If so, you need to obtain pppoe--try searching freshmeat.net. --Greg Help! I am a new Linux Mandrake user and Ihave an ADSL modem connected to a Ethernet card on my machine. How do

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-16 Per discussione lselinger
Cindy Bartorillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 08/16/2000 09:09:08 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-16 Per discussione Gary
I believe both Pronto! and Mahogany support graphical mail, but I can't get either one working. I get mired in Perl error messages with Pronto! and Mahogany is just inscrutable. I've passed it around the office here and nobody has been able to understand how to set that program up (and

Re: [newbie] Re: Mail Program

2000-08-16 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: Most, including myself, believe NS is still the most viable browser currently available for Linux. Also that the best way to avoid problems it still has, is to not use it for mail and news. Do you, or does anyone else here, have a

[newbie] How can a workstation perform dialup on the gateway?

2000-08-16 Per discussione Stan Mulder
I've two computers. One box is set up as a gateway/proxy/ipmasquerating/etc. which I connect to the net via dialup. I surf from my main computer which is connected to this gateway box via ethernet. This all works fine. BTW, the "Demos" tutorials on the Mandrake site were instrumental in helping

Re: [newbie] ADSL Connection

2000-08-16 Per discussione David M. Kufta
** Reply to message from "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, 16 Aug 2000 17:12:01 -0400 You need to determine whether your ISP uses straight TCP/IP or pppoe )PPP-over-ethernet) as the protocol. If so, you need to obtain pppoe--try searching freshmeat.net. --Greg Help! I am a new

[newbie] Thanks

2000-08-16 Per discussione Prashant Krishnamurthy
I would like to thank you very much for your advice. It does work. I tried a simple twm and it at least does not shut down. However except for Netscape, none of the other programs from twm seem to work. I left click my mouse to get some menus. The menus list a lot of programs including terminals

[newbie] 3com PCMCIA Lan Card

2000-08-16 Per discussione Aric C. Wilisch
I am not exactly a novice at Linux, but not an expert =-). in all the other distributions of Linux, including the last version of Mandrake, my 3com/Megahertz 3CCE589ET pcmcia Lan card would be auto detected at installation and would work fine after that. I just recently downloaded Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Linux Digital Cameras

2000-08-16 Per discussione mrc
The question may be academic. According to the documentation that came with a Fujifilm digital camera, the adapter prefers a single operating system on the harddrive. Why this should be so, I have no idea. Michael Coady On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, you wrote: Has a driver for this floppy-adapter

Re: [newbie] Ipchains - i have a question...

2000-08-16 Per discussione root
with ipchains i would like to take all incoming traffic on port 21 and send it to a peticular machine on my network. my linux box is mandrake 7.1 and i have 2 nic's in it. PMFirewall is installed and working smoothly, no problems there. anyone know the syntax? i was reading through but its a lot

[newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-16 Per discussione =*=
Anyone interested in IRC Mandrake-related chat? There is a #mandrake channel at us.chatjunkies.org. I'm there right now and will hang out a while to see if anyone else shows up. Phil

[newbie] Scanners and Linux

2000-08-16 Per discussione Brian
Hi all, Brian here again... (you know the silly one)g just a quick question, I have a customer who wants to who what scanners will work under Linux, will any or is there a special thing that it needs (like a non brain-dead modem , read non win modem)? Thanks a heap in advance guys.. :)

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-16 Per discussione ZeynalBandari
hi tnx phil for mentianing that. now i know where to send my bots when they are completly configured :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone interested in IRC Mandrake-related chat?  There is a #mandrake channel at us.chatjunkies.org.  I'm there right now and will hang out a while to see if

[newbie] Re: newbie: zip disk

2000-08-16 Per discussione Doug McGarrett
My first attempt to reply to this (from work) bounced. I'll try again from home. Since I emailed it to myself, I will try and clean up the stuf, but no guarantee. If your disk is VFAT, Linux will think the fs is on partition 4. So you need to set up your fstab to look for (frinstance)

Re: [newbie] How can a workstation perform dialup on the gateway?

2000-08-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
You need to configure demand dial... if your version of ppp is compatible (and, sorry, I don't have a modem on my mandrake box to find out--check your /var/log/messages file after dial-up, and you should see something like "pppd (demand-dial)" in there) then you can try adding the following lines

[newbie] Cannot Install

2000-08-16 Per discussione Martin Pagnan
I bought and registered the Linux-Mandrake Complete Pack. It stops at the 'setup file systems' stage of the install and prompts me with the question "Found ppa scsi interfaces Do you have another one?" For the first time through I select yes and chose the Iomega zip drive on parallel port.

[newbie] eth0 doesn't initialise. Network doesn't work.

2000-08-16 Per discussione Bab
Hi all, Need help on configuring my network !! I've just installed Mandrake Linux 7.1, and the Network doesn't work. I am currently trying to connect to my local Cable company using DHCP. That doesn't work. After trying a few things in the 'Network Configuration' in DrakConf, I tried to

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
HEY! I can harldy deal with the remaining 828 unread messages I've gotten from this damnable message board! I couldn't possibly keep up in a chat room!!! I never realised this would be such an active board, but I guess I'm a masochist 'cause just stick sround and collect more unread

Re: [newbie] eth0 doesn't initialise. Network doesn't work.

2000-08-16 Per discussione Greg Stewart
One thing to start... I noticed you have an @home address... does this mean you have a cable modem connection under windows or something? If not, read on... I had this VERY same problem when I set up my cable modem--turned out I walked away from that damned Wiz place with a bum piece of

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Per discussione Vic
My sentiments exactly, Heroes 3 won't run for poop on my system , I have soundblaster awe 64 card and Mandrake 7.0-2 so it should work, but the stupid thing will freeze sometime after the music quits and they tried to tell me its my sound drivers, shyeah, as if. I don't have any other problems

Re: [newbie] Logitech wheel mouse scrolling

2000-08-16 Per discussione timmy1443
I figured out the problem. I did not have permission to write to the imwheel.pid file. so I logged in as su, gave myself permission, and now it works like a charm. Thank-you very much for all your help. I know that you must get annoyed at all these little mistakes that us newbies make. Thanks

[newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-16 Per discussione Michael Khachiki
Dear how ever I am a new user of Linux. I purchased a Linux book some time a go which came with three types of Linux which one of them was RedHat 6.0. I tried to install RedHat and according to this book I had boot from A: drive?? When I boot the machine successfully from A: drive I could

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-16 Per discussione Vic
Oh I think someone was just wanting to see what would happen, except that curiosity did not kill this linuxcat. On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, you wrote: something surprises me about this thread. Since AOL sucks so bad why in the world would anyone runing an OS as rock solid want to run something as

Re: [newbie] AOL for Linux

2000-08-16 Per discussione patrick darcy
i believe this thread started when somone with no money or income had to use aol because their parents did. i could be wrong though, i think not, therefore i am Vic wrote: Oh I think someone was just wanting to see what would happen, except that curiosity did not kill this linuxcat.

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-16 Per discussione patrick darcy
i think u need to get Mandrake 7.1 hopefully throw out your windoz and start fresh. this is the best of the best u kow. i have heard that red hat is more difficult to install. and i have a question, is mandrake the next version gonna come with koffice or not. pat Michael Khachiki

Re: [newbie] Red hat installation problem

2000-08-16 Per discussione Gary
Try this support group for Red Hat. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear how ever I am a new user of Linux. I purchased a Linux book some time a go which came with three types of Linux which one of them was RedHat 6.0. I tried to install RedHat and according to this book I had boot

[newbie] Mail Program--Mutt

2000-08-16 Per discussione Cindy Bartorillo
Specifically what I need a mail program to do is to handle mail with lots of graphics, html, etc. Not attachments, graphics and html in the mail itself. Most of my mail is graphical. Does Mutt handle graphics and html? CindyB

Re: [newbie] Mandrake on IRC

2000-08-16 Per discussione =*=
828?!! I got maybe 90 today. Do a mass delete. Start over. The chat room is dead quiet right now. Just thought everyone might like to know it's there. Phil On Wed, 16 Aug 2000, Greg Stewart wrote: HEY! I can harldy deal with the remaining 828 unread messages I've gotten from this

Re: [newbie] OT Linux gaming OT

2000-08-16 Per discussione Romanator
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't mean to be argumentative .. but I disagree with one of your ideas. The Crown for fastest installation of an OS belongs to Linux. Linux-Mandrake has got to be THE easiest installation when the correct hardware is matched with the OS. A fully usable office