[newbie-it] RealPlayer

2000-12-13 Per discussione Giga [TechOperator]
Ciao tutti vorrei chiedervi un aiuto. Ho Mandrake 7.2 e voglio installare real player, pero' non so quale scaricare, ho scaricato quello per RedHat 6.2 (rp7_linux_sparc_cs2.bin) pero' non riesco a lanciarlo. Se potete indicarmi quale fail devo scaricare o forse qualche metodo speciale per

[newbie-it] RPM 4.0

2000-12-13 Per discussione cosscara
Salve a tutti, ho un piccolo problema con gli rpm. Molti nuovi rpm non vengono installati nè con kpackage nè da linea di comando perchè necessitano del rpm 4.0.x. Su rpm find ho trovato l'aggiornamento mandrake per gli rpm, ma anche lui vuole l'rpm 4.0 Ho la mandrake 7.1 come posso risolvere

[newbie-it] Aiuto SCHEDA SONORA

2000-12-13 Per discussione Matteo Agosti
Ciao a tutti, scusate il disturbo... volevo chiedere se qualcuno sa come risolvere un problemuccio che mi si è verificato non appena ho installato la Mandrake 7.2 ebbene... non riesco a far andare la mia Creative AWE64 Gold! SIGHHH!! l'HardDrake la riconosce... ma la scheda non

[newbie-it] Tastiera e Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione Corrado
Ciao! A quanto pare, i problemi con i due tasti "g" e "r" evidenziati la notte scorsa, si verificano solo sotto Gnome e solo come utente, non come root... Se qualcuno avesse qualche idea sulle possibili cause... Corrado

[newbie-it] kmail

2000-12-13 Per discussione bruno
non riesco a configurare kmail in particolare cosa debbo digitare nella casella 'host' e nella caella 'porta' grazie e un saluto a tutti bruno

Re: [newbie-it] kmail

2000-12-13 Per discussione Keyser Soze
Nella casella mail devi mettere l'indirizzo del pop3 del fornitore dell'indirizzo. Es.Se usi libero metti "popmail.libero.it" Nella porta metti 110. Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: non riesco a configurare kmail in particolare cosa debbo digitare nella casella 'host' e nella caella 'porta'

Re: [newbie-it] kmail

2000-12-13 Per discussione Simone Deponti
Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: Nella casella mail devi mettere l'indirizzo del pop3 del fornitore dell'indirizzo. Es.Se usi libero metti "popmail.libero.it" Nella porta metti 110. per Tiscali: pop.tiscalinet.it porta 110 Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: non riesco a configurare kmail

Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto SCHEDA SONORA

2000-12-13 Per discussione Keyser Soze
Ciao, controlla che non hai abilitato nel bios "Plug And Play OS". Deve essere disattivato. Poi entra come root,fuori da X,scrivi sndconfig. Te la riconosce automaticamente.E tutto funzionerà. Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti, scusate il disturbo... volevo chiedere se

R: [newbie-it] Tastiera e Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione Casa
Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: Ciao! A quanto pare, i problemi con i due tasti "g" e "r" evidenziati la notte scorsa, si verificano solo sotto Gnome e solo come utente, non come root... Se qualcuno avesse qualche idea sulle possibili cause... Non so bene che problema hai, e non uso

Re: [newbie-it] kmail

2000-12-13 Per discussione bruno
Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: Nella casella mail devi mettere l'indirizzo del pop3 del fornitore dell'indirizzo. Es.Se usi libero metti "popmail.libero.it" Nella porta metti 110. Il mer, 13 dic 2000, hai scritto: non riesco a configurare kmail in particolare cosa debbo digitare

Re: [newbie] Problems with windows disk after change of XFree server in 7.2

2000-12-13 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 12:13, you wrote: Hi I have a dualboot machine with windows98 installed on my primary harddisk (hda) and Linux Mandrake 7.2 on the other one (hdc). After installing Mandrake 7.2 with the new Xfree 4.0.1 graphics server, X seemed a little unstable (I have an ATI

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-13 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 14:01, you wrote: Hey all, I have a question. I need to know how to perform a clean uninstall of Linux. Now, before you guys jump all over me, listen to my reason. This is not my choice. I have 7.1 installed at work and the Network admin. found out and he, being

Re: [newbie] WordPerfect 8 and LM 7.2

2000-12-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 18:17, Len Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John Batt wrote: When I try to install WP8 I get the following error: "Can't Find libm.so.5" Where can I find this lib? John Batt I imported libm.so.5 from RH6.1 but it did not help; neither did a symbolic link to

Re: [newbie] IMAP clients?

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Well...if you're into terminal stuff Pine is wonderful! You use fetchmail to get your mail from the server(s), and sendmail/postfix to send with. Pine handles the reading and composition. If you're a GUI person, Pronto is a real good app. It uses database technology to store messages, message

[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione Alexander Arzberger
Hi everybody! I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!? Can somebody help? So I found out that Mandrake loads the very fast IceWm if I start the X writing startx (any

[newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione bags_maillist
Hi Guys and Gals, I was wondering how to mount a new Swap partion. When I originally did my install of Mandrake I made the swap 128meg, and it should be at least double that (my physical memory is 128meg). What I want to do is create a new 256 meg partition, format it as a Swap and then

Re: [newbie] KDE Menus

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Paul, Find out where the config file is kept and chmod that to your needs. Might be /etc/some-directory. What it might be is a file where the default menu values are written to as well as the ones that root places on the menu. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ##

RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-13 Per discussione L. H. LOO
At 12-12-2000 -0500, you wrote: What is Fips? O'Reilly Running Linux, Page 53, "... several programs that resize partitions nondestructively. One of these is known as FIPS and can be found on many Linux FTP sites."

Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Denis, Try re-installing the gedit rpm again. it appears as though when the program installed the setup process did not complete properly. That or you could hunt down the config file that this program is reading from and manualy reset the value that is causing this error. And...we who don't use

Re: [newbie] Unauthorized Portmap Connection

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Solo, It means that you better add this chain to your IPchains rules.local file. $IPCHAINS -A input -s 202.156.38.254 -d $OUTERNET 29706 -j DENY -l This line will deny access to anyone from this IP address. Don't wait cause it sounds like someone has cracked your system and is getting ready

Re: [newbie] How to configure pop3 under LM7.2, using xinetd?

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I'm sorry to have to say this, but do you know the difference between "server" and "workstation"? SERVER is the one that pop3 installs on and WORKSTATION is the one that accesses the pop3 _server_ to get the mail. you're going to have to reinstall and this time do the server install. -- Mark

[newbie] Upgraded

2000-12-13 Per discussione Michael (Nozy) Falzon
If i have 6.1 and like to goto 7.2 with our reinstall the lot how easy is it ? Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61 3 93314368 BBs +61409967695Help Desk 24/7 http://mozysswamp.yi.org telnet://mozysswamp.yi.org FidoNet Number 3:634/384 BloodNet

RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-13 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
Now that's an answer I like. He's a real... I'll restrain myself due to the fact that there are ladies on this list. -Original Message- From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 8:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Well...when I attempt to navigate to a dir in a terminal window that has spaces in the name I'm told that "no such file or directory" exists and if I try to do a chmod, or chown or any type of attribute change on a file or dir with a space in the name, then this too fails. I don't think spaces

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Per discussione Till Kamppeter
What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions

Re: [newbie] VI

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Victor, Have you tried reinstalling VI from the RPM? If that doesn't fix it, then I would install the VI/VIM RPM from the 7.1 CD. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On

[newbie] just upgraded to Linux 7.2 and probs with KDE2

2000-12-13 Per discussione blinddog
I have just upgraded to Mandrake 7.2 from 7.0 and now operate KDE2. But my monitor is having probs. The screen(a third on the left side) seems to repeat itself. How do I stop this? Thanx Andrew D

Re: [newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione don
Alexander Arzberger wrote: Hi everybody! I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!? Can somebody help? So I found out that Mandrake loads the very fast IceWm if I

[newbie] subscribe newbie

2000-12-13 Per discussione Paulo Igor

[newbie] Name of the Command? httpd.conf

2000-12-13 Per discussione Beckycould
what commands can I use to change all my IP addresses which are going to be on a new IP ALL AT ONCE without having to modify each joesch.com.hosts folder? Also to modify ALL the IP addresses in httpd.conf all at once from 123.456.789.321 to 123.456.789.124? What is the command called?

[newbie] New, new install, dual-boot, ne2k

2000-12-13 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey, As a belated intro (as I'd responded to some one earlier), I'm Meph. I'd been using RH 6.0 for round a year a half on this my girl friend's pc's had used RH 5.0 on a couple of other boxes for short periods before that. I've not yet installed mdk 7.2 on this box because when I'd

Re: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
it just doesn't seem fair, does it? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Paul spake passionately saying! On 12 Dec 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Maybe he

[newbie] Problems with Creative SB Vibra16!

2000-12-13 Per discussione Pablo Vasquez
I'm having problems setting up my sound card Creative SB Vibra 16. It worked great under 7.0 and 7.1 but now it keeps setting up on IRQ 7. I don't know where to manually changed this. I edited the moudels.conf file and specified the normal settings under which this sound card has worked before:

[newbie] ADSL in the UK

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
Has anyone had any luck setting up a UK ADSL connection in Linux using the USB boxes (ie the domestic services not the business one which use ethernet cards) If so what provider were you using? I'm looking at getting ADSL in the new year, I'm not overly bothered about using it in linux,

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey Mark ( John, I guess), I won't claim to know as much about Linux as Civileme, but I've picked up some things in the past year a half on RH 6.0. To open a file like: This File in, say pico, do this: $ pico "This File" You just need to add the quotes to any file or directory with

Re: [newbie] KDE Menus

2000-12-13 Per discussione BobC
Try: find / -name *.kdelnk Sorry if thats rediculously slow, but I can't find another way that works for sure. You can try: locate kdelnk At one point the locate didn't work at all on mine. It does now, and I've no clue why. ls -R *.kdelnk still doesn't work. Maybe it will on yours.

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it

RE: [newbie] Uninstall of MDK

2000-12-13 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
besides, what am I really hurting by have Linux on my machine??? He is just a Microsoft freak. Doesn't think that any other product can measure up! HA! Chris Kelly --- "One World, One Web, One Program." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Ok...since you've said I will believe it. But then how does one navigate to these dir's that have spaced names, or how would one open such a file from a command line? Every time I've ever tried this, with the exception of doing it with Wine (and even then most times it fails), I get a message

Re: [newbie] Upgraded

2000-12-13 Per discussione civileme
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 13:26, you wrote: If i have 6.1 and like to goto 7.2 with our reinstall the lot how easy is it ? Michael Falzon Mozy's Swamp BBs Red Dwarf BBs +61 3 93314369 BBs and Fax +61 3 93314368 BBs +61409967695Help Desk 24/7 http://mozysswamp.yi.org

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I deleted the wrong cdrom when trying to setup gnome toaster. I issued the command cd /dev rm cdrom In -s scd0 cdrom. How do I add my cdrom back in ? I get the error message no such file or directory. Also it says to be sure I have access etc.

Re: [newbie] Bell Atlantic Infospeed DSL

2000-12-13 Per discussione scarimonger
Hello Don't mean to barge in on this thread, but I'm stuck.. I have info speed up and running in W'95 but I can't get rp-pppoe setup script to work. it crashes when it attempts to run sed within the scrip. The message is as follows: sed: -e expression #2, char 17: unknown option to 's' **

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Holly Henry-Pilkington
Alternatively, assuming you have a directory called "mydir for myprogram" you could do things like "cd mydir*myprogram" and "chown myname:mygroup mydir*myprogram". The only time I run into this is with guys at work who use Windows programs to create mp3s and don't choose the option in the

[newbie] Linux-Keys

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jose Ricardo Sabino
It's usuallly found in default installation of Linux( I think so), the memory for recently typed commands. After entering the Konsole window, as you type the Up-Arrow an earlier typed command are presented in the konsole prompt and so on, in the same way, hitting the Down-Arrow you

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Per discussione Sven Heinicke
the MAKEDEV command might get it back too. If it's not IDE type: man MAKEDEV and start reading. Paul writes: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume you had an IDE cdrom. Was it on /dev/hdb? hdc? hdd? Make a new link cd /dev rm cdrom ln -s /dev/hd...

Re: [newbie] Registered users ID#

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
s wrote: Hi all, I've been seeing these register user #s in some peoples signatures and I was wondering how they/you figured your number. I registered, but my ID# looks nothing like the examples I've seen here. Mine consists of letters, dashes, and numbers. Could someone explain how

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dave DeGear
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: How do you tell if its on hdb hdc or hdd I dont know where to look. Also after typing in cd dev/ rm cdrom ln I think that you should be able to tell by checking out your dmesg file. Try "dmesg |more" and see if you can find your cdrom being identified.

[newbie] Registered users ID#

2000-12-13 Per discussione s
Hi all, I've been seeing these register user #s in some peoples signatures and I was wondering how they/you figured your number. I registered, but my ID# looks nothing like the examples I've seen here. Mine consists of letters, dashes, and numbers. Could someone explain how this works? TIA,

Re: [newbie] problem updating glibc

2000-12-13 Per discussione Thomas Matelich
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 12 December 2000 12:55 pm, Thomas Matelich wrote: I've been having problems with MandrakeUpdate, so I went to get the cooker version, Do Not use cooker rpms, for anything. Party pooper. Ok, I can deal with that. My problem with MandrakeUpdate, like the

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 05:56 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys and Gals, I was wondering how to mount a new Swap partion. When I originally did my install of Mandrake I made the swap 128meg, and it should be at least double that (my physical memory is 128meg). . I suspect

Re: [newbie] Linux-Keys

2000-12-13 Per discussione Joseph Red
Isn't this a function of the shell? I always use bash it works, but I seem to remember it not working under csh. If I'm wrong someone correct me, please. Joseph Red [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Jose Ricardo Sabino" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mike Bowley
The trouble with having spaces in directory or file names is that the shell interprets each bit of the name as a separate command line parameter and thinks "hang on , cd (or whatever) can only have one parameter. I'd better report an error" The answer is to type cd "my dir name thats got spaces

[newbie] cdrom deletion error continuing

2000-12-13 Per discussione chronos
I typed cd /dev rm cdrom it confirmed deletion then typed ln -s /dev/hdc cdrom then it said ln: cdrom: file exists so I typed ln -s /dev/scd0 cdrom no complaints now when I put in a cd for music the cd player says ejected. when using a data cd it say cannot read cd. now what ? the serpent and

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error

2000-12-13 Per discussione chronos
How do you tell if its on hdb hdc or hdd I dont know where to look. Also after typing in cd dev/ rm cdrom ln -s /dev/hd cdrom it says - cdrom read or access error make sure you have permissions etc. also said ln:cdrom file exits. Now what ? Quoting Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000

[newbie] Securely wiping the swat partition?

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jon Doe
I always seem to just break into the swap partition when I decide I want to encrypt something with GNUPG and it screems that I am using unsafe memory. So my question is, how can I, a newbie, wipe the swap partition without screwing everything up. -- "Never let the bastards wear you down!"

[newbie] cdrom deletion part 3

2000-12-13 Per discussione chronos
Okay so I ran dmesg | more and it does "see" everything on my system. Running man MAKEDEV what am I looking for ? It shows several options. Now I get cdrom not ready make sure disc is in drive. What else ? There has to be a way to fix this. Thank You, Chronos. the serpent and

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion part 3

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dave DeGear
Sorry, I thought that your problem was that you didn't know which /dev/hd? your cdrom was attached to. The dmesg should show you this information. ...Dave Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Okay so I ran dmesg | more and it does "see" everything on my system.

Re: [newbie] Word Perfect 8

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey Len -- i noticed you mentioning Applix below. i installed Applix Office 5 on my 7.1 7.2 boxes with no problems and no seg faults when it runs. and the printing under 7.2/CUPS is great. i just thought i'd mention that to you -- so you know it "should" work. =) i'm no linux/applix guru,

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
this will shock everyone, but Tom seems to be right =) *amazed silence* actually, Tom is about 99% right but when i installed linux first i had 60M ram and made a swap of 500M (i have disk space to burn) the swap was used somewhat i recently added 128M ram, and linux hasn't touched my

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey Mark, someone will probably get to this reply before me, but i think it's as simple as command "file or directory with spaces" and i believe this works with many / most of the linux commands. i have had some problems with gui programs and spaces in file names and i am gradually converting

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 03:35 am, Jim Kempton wrote: Hey Thanks for the responses so far. Right, I can't find sndconfig. It's not in usr/sbin /usr/sbin/sndconfig /usr/share/man/man8/sndconfig.8.bz2 /usr/share/sndconfig /usr/share/sndconfig/sample.au

Re: [newbie] securing Mandrake

2000-12-13 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Are you running IPChains, or another firewall? On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Chris wrote: Greetings, I'm not sure if this is the correct place to be asking this, as I'm having no hardware config or install problems, but I need a bit of advice on making Mandrake more secure. I have

[newbie] The text only version: Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jeremy Sudderth
Again, Sorry about the html email, I forgot the Outlook defaulted to html based email. So here is the question again. Thanks. Here is a situation that I think you will all love. My company is sick and tired of Windows. They just hired me and after hearing that I said we should go to Linux (

[newbie] Problems With The Audio Mixer (/dev/mixer)

2000-12-13 Per discussione bobby dowling
I am using 7.2 beta 2, b/c I had to give up my cable modem until I move and I am too po to buy the release until I start work (graduating from Texas AM, btw). I try to use different mixer apps like 'gmix', but I get "No mixers found" and that I should make sure that I have sound

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Per discussione Terry C
I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again

Re: [newbie] Enabling Telnet FTP

2000-12-13 Per discussione -michael-
On Monday 11 December 2000 05:01, regarding Re: [newbie] Enabling Telnet FTP, you said: I also had this problem with my initial install of Mandrake 7.2. Make sure that you have the telnet server installed. Type "rpm -qa |grep telnet" and see if you have both the telnet and telnet

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey Chris -- i didn't do anything. just added the memory. i don't have a clue how to (if you even can) tell linux to use or not use the swap. i monitor my swap and ram use, and i have not seen any swap used since i went to 188M ram. a 2G swap that is 100% used wow, that sounds really

[newbie] 2.2.18 Kernel for Mandrake

2000-12-13 Per discussione Kevin Tambascio
I would like to upgrade to the 2.2.18 kernel to try and get my USB scanner working under Linux. I looked in the Mandrake 7.2 updates folder, as well as the Cooker FTP site (it seems like they only have 2.4.x kernels), but I couldn't find the source. Should I download the kernel from

RE: [newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
You haven't quite explained the setup... Are you trying to use MS Proxy from Linux clients? If so you have to remember that MS-PROXY uses NT authentication before enabling Windows machines. I.E. the Windows machines have to login to the NT domain/server before they have access to

[newbie] Internet access through MS proxy server

2000-12-13 Per discussione Jeremy Sudderth
Are you trying to use MS Proxy from Linux clients? Yes, The Linux boxes must go through the MS Proxy to gain access to the outside world. If so you have to remember that MS-PROXY uses NT authentication before enabling Windows machines. I.E. the Windows machines have to login to the NT

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hey Chris -- i had an idea (which don't happen often) you could tell linux not to use the swap by eliminating the swap partition. tho i don't know if linux *has* to have a swap. one of the gurus might be able to answer that for us. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL

[newbie] X config file -- anything look wrong here??

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
hi, i'm still working on this problem where i have this narrow strip on the left-most edge of my monitor which shows what is actually about 4 inches from the left side of the display. i wanted to run my XF86Config-4 file past you folks. it looks ok to me, but what do i know. does anyone see

Re: [newbie] Will RedHat RPM's work with Mandrake?

2000-12-13 Per discussione Michael
Apparently, they are not installed because I did waht you suggested and it just kept returning to the prompt. I did a file find for postgre* and php* and nothing came up as well. Anyway, I went to the Postgres and PHP websites and downloaded a Mandrake i586.rpm for postgres and a tar.gz for

Re: [newbie] Enabling Telnet FTP

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dave DeGear
Quoting -michael- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [root@gauss /root]# rpm -qa | grep telnet telnet-0.17-5mdk gnome-telnet-2.1-2mdk ktelnet-0.62-8mdk [root@gauss /root]# now what? I'm leaving and want to be able to get into my boxen while away You don't have telnet-server installed. I'm

Re: [newbie] SB AWE32

2000-12-13 Per discussione Bob Schmidt
Hi again, already done that, I've enabled the sound server, and set up specific sounds per event and still nothing. Bob On Wednesday 13 December 2000 05:52, you wrote: You have to go into the control center, locate the sound section and enable the system sounds. You may also have to set up

[newbie] Epson 777 Printer

2000-12-13 Per discussione Paul Hildmann
Hello All, I'm looking to add a low priced printer to this computer. I'm thinking of the Epson 777. Has anyone had any luck with this one? Could someone suggest a low priced model that does work well? It seems easier to match the hardware first than jump thru hoops later :) -- Paul Linux

[newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adam Willcox
I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can anyone point me to the

Re: [newbie] MD7.2 Stability

2000-12-13 Per discussione Hektor Meyer
Hi. I installed MD7.2 with KDE 2.0 final on my HP Pavilion. Since then I observed some interesting problems: KDE is difficult to shutdown. Sometimes it will take several clicks to the "logout" to close it. KPPP docks into the panel and then suddenly disappears but, stays connected. Complete

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Chris
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can

Re: [newbie] GIMP

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
that is odd... i use GIMP darn near daily, and it certainly will save files. both save save as are on my menu. if you right click on an image, then go to the file section, you should see save save as. if you don't. hmmm. could you have a "bad" or "corrupt" install?

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition THANKS!!.

2000-12-13 Per discussione bags_maillist
On Thursday 14 December 2000 h:09, you wrote: this will shock everyone, but Tom seems to be right =) *amazed silence* actually, Tom is about 99% right but when i installed linux first i had 60M ram and made a swap of 500M (i have disk space to burn) the swap was used somewhat i

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione chronos
I think that if you have 128 ram or more its almost unnecessary. I have 256 and it never uses the swap. Quoting Adrian Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: hey Chris -- i had an idea (which don't happen often) you could tell linux not to use the swap by eliminating the swap partition. tho i don't know

Re: [newbie] GIMP

2000-12-13 Per discussione Anthony
Hit the right mouse button when you are over an image. You'll see a huge list come up, which includes your save commands. I have been messing around with the version of GIMP which came with Mandrake-Linux7.2 . It appears as if there is no way to save files. When you select FILE from the

Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione Renaud OLGIATI
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alexander Arzberger wrote: I am new to Mandrake and this list and I´ve tried to change Mandranke´s default KDE2 (too slow) to the faster Gnome Desktop, but there´s no menu item to do this!? Is Gnome really faster ? (as I have an antique and slow machine, I'd be

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Adrian, So what you're saying is to enclose the file or dir name in double quotes? -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 -- # On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 Adrian Smith spake passionately

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update

2000-12-13 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Adam Willcox wrote: I don't appear to have drakconf in my installation of mandrake 7.1. I couldn't find anything to download off of mandrake's site. I found an older version of drakconf floating around on the internet. From what I can gather DrakConf is the mandrake update program. Can

[newbie] connecting Mandrake 7.2 to Homechoice

2000-12-13 Per discussione Brian Brathwaite
Homechoice is video on demand service which offers internet access as part of the service. This is achieve by shearing the bandwidth of the VOD ADSL link, which gives you a greatly reduced ADSL internet link via your serial port. Has anybody experience making this connection to Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione bascule
opsysii? bascule I've been around opsys's/opsyses (oh Hell what is the plural??) of

[newbie] DSL

2000-12-13 Per discussione Glenn Johnson
Joe Lore, just wondering how you've made out with your DSL connection. Glenn... Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user #175132 Powered by Linux-Mandrake 7.1

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Adrian Smith
exactly. this is what i have read. i have only used it a few times myself, such as cd "all of my writing" to change to my directory called 'all of my writing' as i mentioned, i'm renaming my directories so it's easier to navagate, but as to file names... not really. to many of those. so i

Re: [newbie] Spaces in names

2000-12-13 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
John, Whoa! Talk about obsessive;-). But dude, isn't life just a little dull explicitly playing by the rules? I honestly don't know how many, but I've had (in RH 6.0 likely ~will~ have in mdk 7.2 after installing this weekend) numerous files with spaces, exceeding 14 characters, even

[newbie] NEC Silentwriter SuperScript 660 in Mandrake

2000-12-13 Per discussione Johnny Kwan
Does anyone know how to get this printer to work in Mandrake 7.2? I have tried other models by NEC which are supported by Mandrake but noth of them work. Thanks. ICQ# 1678616 Office # 972-506-3411 eFax # 419-818-7262 Homepage: johnnykwan.web-page.net

RE: [newbie] DSL

2000-12-13 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
I have to DCHP to a windows box to use mine, other thanthat it is active and healthy. Charles ((-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Glenn JohnsonSent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 9:22

Re: [newbie] cdrom deletion error 5

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 03:46 pm, you wrote: If I issue the command mount /mnt/cdrom to read a disc that should work correct ? Then to unmount /mnt/cdrom to unmount. What about music cd`s ? Just use same command and start kscd like usual ? the serpent and the egg I believe the unmount

Re: Re:[newbie] Changing KDE to Gnome

2000-12-13 Per discussione John W
I have used both KDE and Gnome and have recently downloaded the Helix-Gnome and it is considerably faster than KDE. Although I will say I have always kind of preferred the look of KDE. I apologize for sending with outlook but I have some ipchains issues and can't seem to send/rcv. email on the

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Same here. I have 256MB and I only need to use my 100MB swap when I run VMware (I give Win2K 128MB of RAM), and even then the maximum swap I've used is 50MB. That's with heaps of hungry programmes running in both Linux (Konqueror, Netscape, Opera beta 3, Mozilla, etc.) and WinDOS (Opera 5,

Re: [newbie] Making a new SWAP partition.

2000-12-13 Per discussione Roger Sherman
How much of a difference did you notice? I have 64 meg RAM, and am strongly considering adding 128 more...will it be worth the time and money? On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Adrian Smith wrote: this will shock everyone, but Tom seems to be right =) *amazed silence* actually, Tom is about 99%

Re: [newbie] GIMP

2000-12-13 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Right click on the file you want to save...the option is on the menu that will pop up when you do so. On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Mickey Soltys wrote: I have been messing around with the version of GIMP which came with Mandrake-Linux7.2 . It appears as if there is no way to save files. When you

[newbie] CD-RW permissions

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
I have the cdwriter set up on the desktop and it lists ok as linked to the scd0 but if I click on the desktop icon the Konqueror box comes up and a message that says I don't have permission to access that device. If I do " ls -l /dev/cdrom1" I get the following: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root

Re: [newbie] Perl error message on locale

2000-12-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 13 December 2000 06:03 am, you wrote: Denis, snip And...we who don't use M$ or the apps thereof don't fear the image attachment that you sent. However, in the future if you want to copy and paste something from a terminal to an email message use the "middle" mouse button to

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