RE: [newbie-it] aggiungere utente a gruppo

2000-10-07 Per discussione Floods
Il 06/10/00, Simone Ravarotto parlò così: Comunque vedo il tuo problema relativo al montaggio del cd-rom; Fai il mount manualmente o hai settato il supermount della Mandrake? Io non ho mai cambiato i permessi della risorsa /dev/cdrom e lo utilizzo da utente. Devi averli cambiati tu,giusto?

RE: [newbie-it] lancio di una shell dal desktot KDE

2000-10-07 Per discussione kadabra
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, you wrote: intendevo come collegarlo ad un icona del desktop grazie mago merlino Il mer, 27 set 2000, hai scritto: Guarda bene il "desktop" (scrivania) : ci dev'essere la rappresentazione di un piccolo monitor sul pannello di kde. Clicca li' e sim-sala-bim

[newbie-it] ISDN: quali i passi fondamentali?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Luca Martinazzi
Ho la Mandrake 7.1, un modem Winbond interno su una PCI, scheda madre INTEL; ho anche le ISDNutils, una marea di FAQ e HOWTO, ma non so quali siano i passi fondamentali da fare per collegarmi in ISDN. Riesco a usare il KPPP per una connessione con il modem normale (56K). Inoltre HardDrake

[newbie] Linux on Compaq Prosignia P1?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Andrew Scotchmer
Hi all, A friend of mine wants to install Linux but is having probs. As I have had no problems with installation I don't have a clue so maybe someone here can help. He is trying to load linux onto a Compaq Prosignia P1 with a SCSI CD-ROM with a smart array controller. He used the 4.60

Re: [newbie] Modem Blaster Config

2000-10-07 Per discussione John Rye
Calvin Milles wrote: I have a modem from Creative Labs "Modem Blaster" PCI , the exact model is a "Creative Modem Blaster Flash56 PCI DI5630-4 any help configuring it would be greatly appriceated. I am running Mandrake 7.1 complete on a dual boot system with win98. When I run harddrake I

[newbie] How to move accounts between servers

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jan-Børge Landro
Hi I have now configured a new mailserver, using sendmail on Mandrake 7.1 . My old server is running Mandrake 6.1. On my old server i've got 150 mail accounts. How can i move these (replicate) to my new server? When i say move, i then mean move username, passwords, and the content in

[newbie] Sound Mixer

2000-10-07 Per discussione Mike Williams
Hi y'all I have go my SB LIve s/c up and running, but the sound is very low. I have tried to open the sound mixer, but get a message that i can't access it and to change the permission. This happens even when i log on as root. But, i went to the fiolder and changed the permissions, but i sitll

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Per discussione goldenpi
"Austin L. Denyer" wrote: Strike one for bloatware, I agree. I once set up a 50-user stock control system running on a low-end 486 with 16Mb RAM with Novel NetWare 3.12... I know about that too. And indeed. Netware 3.12 would run on that, but not on much less. Never underestimate

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Per discussione Hellmut
Hi! A friend has sent me a file ending on .asx. I don't know how to open it, does anybody know which program I need? Thanks in advance, -- , (o o) +--oOOO--(_)---+ | | |H E L L M U T | | | |

Re: [newbie] Mustek SCSI scanner

2000-10-07 Per discussione paul
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:27:06PM +0200, Joan Tur keyboarded: I'm not able to make my scanner work... it's a Mustek Scanexpress 6000SP connected to it's ISA SCSI card (DTC-3181). I've compiled the kernel with generic NCR5380 support (module) but i don't know how to load it through modprobe.

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM won't open

2000-10-07 Per discussione paul
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 11:04:00PM -0700, erik nord keyboarded: Question for you all. I have just installed Mandrake 7.0. Everything installed fine. At the very end right before rebooting I tried to remove the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will not open. Is there a something I need to do to get the

[newbie] Ethernet PC Card for portable PC

2000-10-07 Per discussione Francois Massonneau
Hey folks. . . I 've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on my Portable PC Fujitsu/Siemens Lifebood E Series, and I've bought an Ethernet/fast ethernet D-Link PC Card DFE 650 Series. The problem is that my Mandrake doesn't recognize this Ethernet adapter ? How can I do to make it work ? ON the

RE: [newbie] asx?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Rick Commo
.asx rang a bell so I searched my Win2K machine and one popped up. When I double clicked it launched MultiMedia Player and played a song. So at least in Win2K it's a multimedia file of some sort. Mine was a song. On Linux .asx might have another meaning altogether. -rick -Original

Re: [newbie] asx?

2000-10-07 Per discussione markOpoleO
asx is for windows Media Player markOpoleO - Original Message - From: "Mark Weaver" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 8:06 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] asx? No idea cause I don't know what program that file came from or what it's associated with.

RE: [newbie] Linux Format

2000-10-07 Per discussione Rick Commo
Well, I know good Linux advice is valuable - But it would have to be **really** good to justify $795! My bad on dropping the decimal point ;-) -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:30

Re: [newbie] Grub help?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
Hi Tom. Thanks for replying. Okay. I've got it setup like this: WD-10 megger - hda with /swap, /, /usr, and /home as partitions. added: an old Seagate 1 gig HD, as hdd1. My Zip drive is indeed, hdc4... So whats the easiest way to change the old Seagate (hdd1) to hda, and my WD (hda) to

Re: [newbie] asx?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: .asx rang a bell so I searched my Win2K machine and one popped up. When I ddouble clicked it launched MultiMedia Player and played a song. So at least in Win2K it's a multimedia file of some sort. Mine was a song. On Linux .asx might have another meaning

Re: [newbie] CD-ROM won't open

2000-10-07 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
erik nord wrote: Question for you all. I have just installed Mandrake 7.0. Everything installed fine. At the very end right before rebooting I tried to remove the CD-ROM. The CD-ROM will not open. Is there a something I need to do to get the CD-ROM open to be able to use it in the

Re: [newbie] Mustek SCSI scanner

2000-10-07 Per discussione Joan Tur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 01:27:06PM +0200, Joan Tur keyboarded: I'm not able to make my scanner work... it's a Mustek Scanexpress 6000SP connected to it's ISA SCSI card (DTC-3181). I've compiled the kernel with generic NCR5380 support (module) but i don't know

Re: [newbie] asx?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Romanator
Windows Meta Files http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/windowsmedia/crcontent/asx.asp -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Support Linux drivers: http://www.libranet.com/petition.html Mark Weaver wrote: No idea cause I don't know what program that file came from or what it's

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Per discussione Austin L. Denyer
Of course it is. I also noticed (but not sure yet) that vs. 3 in Linux is faster than 2.4 in Linux. That's surprising. Seti's own figures state that 3.0 takes 40% longer than 2.4, as it does a lot of additional processing. Regards, Ozz.

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Per discussione Austin L. Denyer
Strike one for bloatware, I agree. I once set up a 50-user stock control system running on a low-end 486 with 16Mb RAM with Novel NetWare 3.12... I know about that too. And indeed. Netware 3.12 would run on that, but not on much less. Never underestimate Novel NetWare. I used

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Per discussione paul
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:14:34AM -0400, Austin L. Denyer keyboarded: Of course it is. I also noticed (but not sure yet) that vs. 3 in Linux is faster than 2.4 in Linux. That's surprising. Seti's own figures state that 3.0 takes 40% longer than 2.4, as it does a lot of additional

Re: [newbie] Mustek SCSI scanner

2000-10-07 Per discussione paul
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:23:24PM +0200, Joan Tur keyboarded: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Thanks for your answer. Now it's working... much slower than under Win/OS2 or Win98 but it works. Do you know how to make the scanner send higher amounts of data and less times? Under OS/2 or Win98 it

Re: [newbie] Mustek SCSI scanner

2000-10-07 Per discussione Joan Tur
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 05:23:24PM +0200, Joan Tur keyboarded: [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Thanks for your answer. Now it's working... much slower than under Win/OS2 or Win98 but it works. Do you know how to make the scanner send higher amounts of data and

[newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install something (True Type Font support) that requires "xfree86 4". How do I find out if I have xfree86 4 ? Thanks. -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Per discussione spineboy
The AMD K6-2 at 400 Mhz is taking about 15.5 Hrs per work unit, the AMD K6-2 333 on windows 98 looks to be about 31 hrs. ? Don't understand that, nothing else is running. Just shows that the Penguin is superior in just one more way. Everything seems to run faster on linux. Search on,

[newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Marcia L Waller
Dear Anyone, I am very confused. It looks like I have my SMC EZ ethernet card setup maybe but nothing happening yet. I checked one of the log files and it said device or resource busy. I have checked about every file I could such as proc/interrupts, conference modules,etc. I do not know if things

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Per discussione Austin L. Denyer
That's surprising. Seti's own figures state that 3.0 takes 40% longer than 2.4, as it does a lot of additional processing. Hmm... that is strange indeed. This because I am getting more and more convinced that it is at least not slower. And I checked, I was running the i686 version of 2.4

[newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
I downloaded an app (solar system) in the form of .tar.gz What do I have to do to install such an app? I only have installed rpm apps so far :-( -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854

RE: [newbie] Modem Blaster Config

2000-10-07 Per discussione Calvin Milles
The Modem documentation dose not say a winmodem, In the device manager for win98 their is a "HCFMODEM" listing, and in this listing their is "Creative PCI Modem Emulator" it uses IRQ 3, memory range E400-E400, and a I/O range 6300-6307. Under "Modem" in the device manager it is listed at

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Paul
It was Oct 7, 2000, 12:44, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install something (True Type Font support) that requires "xfree86 4". How do I find out if I have xfree86 4 ? If you downloaded and installed xfree86 4.0, you'd know it. It is LARGE. I don't

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Eddie Torres
Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I am very confused. It looks like I have my SMC EZ ethernet card setup maybe but nothing happening yet. I checked one of the log files and it said device or resource busy. I have checked about every file I could such as proc/interrupts, conference

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Romanator
Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I am very confused. It looks like I have my SMC EZ ethernet card setup maybe but nothing happening yet. I checked one of the log files and it said device or resource busy. I have checked about every file I could such as proc/interrupts, conference

[newbie] Maple Install

2000-10-07 Per discussione Joseph Brault
Hello all, I recently purchased Maple 6, which is compatible with both Windows and Linux (Unix). I was able to install in Windows fine, and obtained a liscense from them without a problem.. However Linux was a different story. I was able to install correct.y, and from what I can get from

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione philomena
One way to find out - If you are running KDE, open the control center and click on information and then xserver - that should show you your version. philomena Paul wrote: It was Oct 7, 2000, 12:44, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install something

Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione philomena
You have to uncompress the file - it will probably create a directory with the name of that app, i.e. /solar or something like that, with all its files underneath. Then you should follow the readme file to install. The command to use is: tar xvzf your_file.tar.gz without the :-) philomena

Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Paul
It was Oct 7, 2000, 13:38, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: I downloaded an app (solar system) in the form of .tar.gz What do I have to do to install such an app? I only have installed rpm apps so far :-( Hi Jeff, Move the tar.gz to a temporary file, like /tmp. cd to /tmp and then type

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Marcia L Waller
Dear Eddie and All, Yes, I did checkout Harddrake early on before I did the 1000 steps to card setup :) and it did not detect my card. However when I went to /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf I got this information: Board 1 has Identity 3b 29 17 b7 6b 60 16 a3 4d: SMC1660 Serial No 689420139

Re: [newbie] Setiathome

2000-10-07 Per discussione Paul
It was Oct 7, 2000, 13:22, when Austin L. Denyer keyboarded: There is also a great deal more variabilty in execution time with version 3.0. This is explained in the FAQ. Over time, each participant will get both "fast" workunits and "slow" workunits. Ths will average out and thus not have much

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Goldenpi
It does. It gives a warning about 3.? haveing better support for video cards than 4.0 and asks if you want to use it. Truetype fonts shouldn't need 4.0. If you have 3.? then dont worry as it might still work. - Original Message - From: "Paul" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.]

2000-10-07 Per discussione Goldenpi
thanks. This shoud be good :-) That deformed smile was an attempt at an evil grin. - Original Message - From: "Austin L. Denyer" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 4:47 PM Subject: Re: OT [newbie] Antique systems [was: Off-topic posts.] Strike

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Marcia L Waller
Dear Roman and All, Thank you for your advice. I just sent an email with an UPDATE. You may see it come up soon. I mentioned that I actually called my Cox-internet cable support and found someone who knows Linux. I did not actually get to talk to him but he told my helper that all I had to do to

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Paul
It was Oct 7, 2000, 14:14, when Marcia L Waller keyboarded: hopefully correct driver.What program is best to use, netcfg, Linuxconf, both, or manually some other way? Does the above information say that my card is already configured? I will be very grateful for anyone's help. When you run

Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Anthony
If at all possible, get an RPM version. They're just plain easier to install and update. However it looks like for you a .tar.gz is your only option, so here's how you go about installing it: First untar it. "tar -xvzf the_program.tar.gz". Then cd to the new directory it creates, "cd

Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
Thank you Paul and Philomena Jeff On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: It was Oct 7, 2000, 13:38, when Jeff Malka keyboarded: I downloaded an app (solar system) in the form of .tar.gz What do I have to do to install such an app? I only have installed rpm apps so far :-( Hi

Re: [newbie] Modem Blaster Config

2000-10-07 Per discussione John Rye
Calvin Milles wrote: The Modem documentation dose not say a winmodem, In the device manager for win98 their is a "HCFMODEM" listing, and in this listing their is "Creative PCI Modem Emulator" it uses IRQ 3, memory range E400-E400, and a I/O range 6300-6307. Under "Modem" in the

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Marcia L Waller wrote: Dear Anyone, I am very confused. It looks like I have my SMC EZ ethernet card setup maybe but nothing happening yet. I checked one of the log files and it said device or resource busy. I have checked about every file I could such as proc/interrupts, conference

[newbie] Input Device Problems durring instalation!

2000-10-07 Per discussione Ambler Dee
(Durring instalation)just as the GUI stage of Mandrake 7.1 starts prompting you to choose a language... my keyboard numlock key light goes out and the whole keyboard stops responding. Plus there is no response from the mouse. P2400,160MB,Promise Ultra ATA/66 pci controller,PheonixBIOS 4.0 R6.0

Re: [newbie] installing a tar.gz app?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
Thank you very much Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Anthony [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 3:49 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] installing a "tar.gz" app? If at all possible, get an RPM version.

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Thomas Bishop
In KDE start-- settings -- information --X server. Will tell yoy which is running on your system. Cya, Tom On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, Jeff Malka wrote: I am running Mandrake 7.1 and would like to install something (True Type Font support) that requires "xfree86 4". How do I find out if I

[newbie] Where are the time-zone config files ?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Renaud OLGIATI
We moved to Summer time last week-end, and since then my system clock (set to GMT) gives me the wrong time. I suspect the Paraguayan govt changed the time at a different date this time. Anyone know where to find the time-zone def files to correct this ? TIA, Ron the Frog, on the banks of the

[newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-07 Per discussione John Hendrickx
I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that didn't work. The Windows

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Mwinold
In a message dated 07-Oct-00 13:00:40 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you downloaded and installed xfree86 4.0, you'd know it. It is LARGE. I don't believe it came with the 7.1 distro, but I am not certain (handed the cd's to someone to copy mdk, so I can't check). the

[expert] iomega install problems

2000-10-07 Per discussione Mwinold
ok i tried to install my iomega zip drive, but i keep getting errors when i use modprobe i type modprobe ppa and it spits out install failure and its driving me nuts here is a transcript of what i did: [root@localhost /root]# modprobe ppa /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/scsi/ppa.o: init_module:

[newbie] booting screen display to printer?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
When one boots into Linux, the screen display tells you what is happening during the booting process. However it goes by so fast there is no way to read it intelligently. Is there a way to make those lines of text go either to the printer or to a file so that they can be read liesurely? It

Re: [newbie] How do I find which version of xfree86 do I have?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Jeff Malka
Thank you. On Sat, 07 Oct 2000, you wrote: In a message dated 07-Oct-00 13:00:40 Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you downloaded and installed xfree86 4.0, you'd know it. It is LARGE. I don't believe it came with the 7.1 distro, but I am not certain (handed the cd's

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-07 Per discussione Mwinold
dont ask me why but it works and im sure you have never done this turn your system off!! leave it alone for a couple minutes at least 10 seconds if your impatient and then turn it on, when grub boots try windows, you should be able to boot into windows, for some reason linux affects

[newbie] connecting via ppp

2000-10-07 Per discussione Marc Popejoy
I've been unable to get MD 7.1 to log on to my ISP, (open 2.4 will). I posted a message earlier this week about a message in /var/log/messages that said "all had bit 7 set to 0" and it was suggested I add "noauth" to my ppp/options file. The only other entry on line one is "lock". I was able to

Re: [RE: [newbie] Linux Format]

2000-10-07 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
"Rick Commo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I buy it occasionally at BarnesNoble here in Bellevue, WA. It costs $795 if I remember correctly. -rick Hm..., Does that include import fees Mike "Many loads of beer were brought. What disorder, whoring, fighting, killing and

Re: [newbie] connecting via ppp

2000-10-07 Per discussione markOpoleO
I am having the same problem as Marc is, to clear up our problem i got a error messages like this: The pppd daemon died unexpectedly! Oct 7 18:49:54 localhost pppd[811]: pppd 2.3.11 started by root, uid 0 Oct 7 18:49:54 localhost pppd[811]: Using interface ppp0 Oct 7 18:49:54 localhost

Re: [newbie] internet with cable?

2000-10-07 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Alan Shoemaker wrote: [snip] Marciain your system bios, have you set aside the IRQ's that the isa cards use for ia bus use instead of PCI bus use? Alan (whoops) Marciain your system bios, have you set aside the IRQ's that the ISA cards use for ISA bus use instead of PCI bus use?

RE: [RE: [newbie] Linux Format]

2000-10-07 Per discussione Rick Commo
Gack... I was off by half! I got confused and was thinking of Maxximum Linux when I quotes $7.95 (ok, ok, I *quoted* $795). Today I went over there to see what was in this month's Linux rags and they had Linux Forum. It was $13.95 (I suppose for consistency that should be $1395) It did come

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-07 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
John Hendrickx wrote: I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that

[newbie] mounting proc filesystem dup2 : Bad file descriptor .

2000-10-07 Per discussione PG62 HYu
hi , Today , I can not startup my linux , and it give me some message as title . Can anybody help me ? yuhao