Re: [newbie-it] Scanner parallelo in linux

2000-12-18 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Stefano Salari wrote: Ciao a tutti, Qualcuno mi sa dare indicazioni su come configurare e utilizzare uno scanner parallelo con una Mandrake 7.2? Dipende dallo scanner parallelo. Il 90% non fuzionano :-( Alcuni funzionano tramite wine. Alcuni sono finti paralleli e si riescono ad

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con Netscape

2000-12-18 Per discussione Andrea Celli
luciano wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema di connessione con Netscape 4.73. Come utente pincopallino se mi connetto a internet con pppd e lancio Netscape, questo non riesce a connettersi a un qualsiasi sito e mi dà il seguente messaggio: Netscape is unable to locate the server

[newbie-it] Fare l'append su un file di testo

2000-12-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salve a tutti sono alle prime armi con Linux. Vorrei sapere se c'è un modo per scrivere delle stringe in fondo ad un file di testo, da riga di comando, mantenendo inalterato il contenuto precedente al file. In pratica si tratta di fare un append di una stringa su un file di testo. Ho letto

[newbie-it] Stampante Lexmark a getto inchiostro su Mandrake 7.1

2000-12-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salveho una stampante a getto di inchiostro, una lexmark, vorrei sapere come fare per farla funzionare anche su linux Ciao e grazie

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner parallelo in linux

2000-12-18 Per discussione loris gava
From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie-it] Scanner parallelo in linux Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 11:43:43 +0100 Stefano Salari wrote: Ciao a tutti, Qualcuno mi sa dare indicazioni su come configurare e utilizzare uno

Ri:[newbie-it] Aiuto non riesco ad Installare i file della mia G-Force 2 GTS

2000-12-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ciao a tutti, io ho Linux Mandrake 7.1 con su una scheda video Matrox G400 32mb Ram e fin qui tutto bene Linux va che e una meraviglia solo che ho preso una G-Force 2 Gts perche? perche e piu potente perche se no. cmq ho scaricato i driver dal sito NVIDIA " http://www.nvidia.com il file

Ri:Re: [newbie-it] Fare l'append su un file di testo

2000-12-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: Salve a tutti sono alle prime armi con Linux. Vorrei sapere se c'è un modo per scrivere delle stringe in fondo ad un file di testo, da riga di comando, mantenendo inalterato il contenuto precedente al file. In pratica si tratta di fare un append di una

Re: [newbie-it] Aiuto non riesco ad Installare i file della mia G-Force 2 GTS

2000-12-18 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Ciao, Dunque, se ti sei scaricato "NVIDIA kernel 0.9-5 mdk71 smp i386,rpm" purtroppo non ti serve perche' i files che contengono "smp" nel nome sono i driver per sistemi multiprocessore. Hai bisogno di due files: 1) NVIDIA_kernel 0.9-5 mdk71 i386.rpm 2) NVIDIA_GLX 0.9-5.i386.rpm Il file

[newbie-it] Re:R: Problemi con Netscape

2000-12-18 Per discussione luciano
Andrea Celli wrote: luciano wrote: Ciao a tutti. Ho un problema di connessione con Netscape 4.73. Come utente pincopallino se mi connetto a internet con pppd e lancio Netscape, questo non riesce a connettersi a un qualsiasi sito e mi dà il seguente messaggio: Netscape is unable

Ri:Re: Ri:Re: [newbie-it] Fare l'append su un file di testo

2000-12-18 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: ... Grazie.. non è che riesci a risolvermi anche l'altro quesito? Qual'era? ciao, andrea Quello con l'oggetto STAMPANTE LEXMARK A GETTO DI INCHIOSTRO SU LINUX .. ciao Diego

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Is there any way to burn mp3s straight to CD in CD audio format on-the-fly? I hate converting mp3s to wav files and I don't like rebooting to Windows to use Nero. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:19, Graham Kerr wrote: You'll need to convert them to .wav files first. mpg123 does it, and so does

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Is the output the same (or almost the same) every time? If so, send us a copy so we can help troubleshoot your problem. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 07:16, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2000 07:55, you wrote: Most GUI frontends for cdrecord have an option where you can actually see

Re: [Re: [newbie] More disk space for the Linux partition]

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I don't think that discdrake can do non-destructive partitioning (yet). That is a very complex thing to do, and you will need something like PartitionMagic or System Commander to achieve it. Note that these two programmes don't support ReiserFS, only ext2 and swap partitions. On Mon, 18 Dec

Re: [newbie] CD From Mandrake???

2000-12-18 Per discussione s
Nope! Probably won't. Best thing is just to upgrade through 'updates' anyway. KDE 2.0.1 is out anyway and KDE 2.1 is soon to be released as is kernel 2.4. -s -- Registered Linux user: #197855 -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GED/M/S d+ s:+: a C++ UL@ P+ L++ E--- W

Re: [newbie] cdrecord doesn't work.

2000-12-18 Per discussione abe
I ran it and it still gives the error line cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. Any other ideas? Abe Graham Kerr wrote: try cdrecord with dev=0,0 Graham On Monday 18 December 2000 7:11 am, you wrote: when I run cdrecord -scanbus it returns

[newbie] Exporting X

2000-12-18 Per discussione James Hallam
hi all, i was wondering if it was possible to export the KDE desktop to an X-Client running on a windows machine i.e. using the MI/X or and equivalent product.. if it is possible would anyone knew of any documentation out there to do it thanks in advance

[newbie] Helix GNOME Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Has anyone tried Helix GNOME with Mandrake 7.2? The download page says it is compatible with Mandrake 7.0 and 7.1, but there is no mention of 7.2. Is it possible to keep the Mandrake application menus (editable through menudrake) with Helix GNOME? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your mouse

Re: [newbie] breaking out of a gui

2000-12-18 Per discussione Jim Crossley
You should have six virtual text consoles. Access them by pressing any of the function keys, F1-F6, while holding down Ctrl and Alt. Once out of X, you don't need the Ctrl key -- you can switch among virtual consoles using just AltF1-F6. You can get back to the X console by pressing AltF7.

[newbie] Adding an HDD?

2000-12-18 Per discussione Revenant
Since I've installed Mandrake (all of a day ago) I've added an HDD. How do I get Mandrake to detect it? I'm using Supermount. Thank you. Society Design Mailing List http://www.egroups.com/group/Society_Design For any

Re: [newbie] Differences between 7.1 7.2

2000-12-18 Per discussione Mark Weaver
So far from what I've seen it's mostly looks and there are a lot more widgets, gadgets and think-a-ma-bobs. One important thing though is there is much more of a variety of hardware support. For instance my printer, a Canon BJC6000, while it would run under Mdk 7.1 it wasn't directly supported. I

[newbie] Diald, kppp and Mandrake 7.2 - installation issue

2000-12-18 Per discussione Eduardo M. A. M. Mendes
Hello I am trying to install diald with Mandrake 7.2 Kppp is running ok so I know that the modem and connections are fine. I read diald Howto many times but to no avail. Could someone out there help me out? I want to run diald (I got the latest mandrake rpm file .99.1) without

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

2000-12-18 Per discussione Zelda link
would if anyone know how to configure the proxy setting. I have been using the dialup server but I can access the website using the proxy. hear from linux group buddy. thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of

Re: [newbie] breaking out of a gui

2000-12-18 Per discussione Dave
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace works fine to kill X on my system. At 08:24 PM 12/15/00 +1300, you wrote: Hello All, Using Mandrake 7.1 only for a short time, used Caldera and Corel before, in either of them when xwindows hung Crtl, Alt and Backspace was all I needed to go to a textconsole, I can't find a

[newbie] KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Has anyone tried KDE 2.1 Beta 1? I have been using a CVS version made about a month ago (i.e. a month after the official KDE2 release) and I recently upgraded to KDE 2.1 Beta 1. I have found that when in Beta 1's Konqueror I cannot access the configuration settings (Settings - Configure...).

RE: [newbie] Exporting X

2000-12-18 Per discussione Fireman71
It is possible but for me it was a pain to setup and i wasnt very satisfied with it when i did manage to get it setup but this might have been caused by me not doing something correctly. To make a long story short, i found a program called VNC which basically does the same thing and was much

[newbie] Question

2000-12-18 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
Anybody heard of this new CRN expansion slot on new Mobo's? Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775

[newbie] Internet Connection Sharing

2000-12-18 Per discussione Angel Rodriguez
My home network is running Win98 on my desktop and Win95 on my corporate laptop. I want to add my Linux Mandrake only machine to this network and be able to share my internet connection with Linux. The Win98 machine is running MS internet sharing software. How would I accomplish this?

RE: [newbie] KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2000-12-18 Per discussione Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
After know the problems every users has with KDE21, I am using the 2.01 version (from sourceforge in a special rpms for Mandrake 7.2) that works well in Linux. I think it will be better wait, because the changes in KDE from 2.0 have been very few and the inestability seems to be very high. I had

RE: [newbie] Exporting X

2000-12-18 Per discussione James Hallam
thanks, i have heard of VNC but find it very slow . at least teh windows version is. i have never tried the linux version... i will give a go thanks again -Original Message- From: Fireman71 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 18 December 2000 16:36 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

[newbie] How may I use two mice?

2000-12-18 Per discussione Phil R Lawrence
I want to use two mice at once (one is a touchpad in my keyboard). Currently, DrakConf reports them as: Device: /dev/psaux Bus Type: PS/2 and Device: /dev/ttyS0 Bus Type: Serial My XF86Config-4 currently says: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver

RE: [newbie] Exporting X

2000-12-18 Per discussione Mark Johnson
If you have some the money, check out Exceed. We use it a work. It is very, very nice. I don't know how much we paid for it, but I'm sure it is a bit pricey but it's very good. There is a free eval version available. http://www.hummingbird.com/products/nc/exceed/index.html However, I use

[newbie] kernel Panic

2000-12-18 Per discussione Vikram Haravu
Hello, my customer ID number is : LM71DH1-30868587 I have the following problem. I will appreciate it if you can help. I recently installed LM 7.1 on my PC which already had Win98. I was using Grub as the bootloader setup to load Linux as default. Since the Linux install I have re-installed

[newbie] Netscape 4.76

2000-12-18 Per discussione Barry Premeaux
I just tried to update from 4.75 to 4.76, but the common file is giving me problems. The first error tells me it isn't signed, then it says it can't install the file. I have tried the tux and sourceforge update sites with the same results. Does anyone have an alternative site? Barry :-)

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-18 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold
Bad habits because of how destructive they are. I think I explained why the mouse support is horrible in linux. The reason it is horrible in windows was that BG wanted to keep the 3-button mouse off the market so he could be the one to profit from an additional feature rather than Logitech, etc..

Re: [Re: [newbie] More disk space for the Linux partition]

2000-12-18 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold
What about parted? Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I don't think that discdrake can do non-destructive partitioning (yet). That is a very complex thing to do, and you will need something like PartitionMagic or System Commander to achieve it. Note that these two programmes don't support

[newbie] INICIACION

2000-12-18 Per discussione Walter Peña
Hi: i very new in linux, and i install 7.0 mandrake, but only this, i will need install staroffice 5.1 and I have the soft in a CD but I can't install it. When i can study this and more of linux.(in spanish because my english it's poor) Thanks. Walter

[newbie] Re: unsubscribe

2000-12-18 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold

[newbie] ssh port forwarding as user?

2000-12-18 Per discussione Jon Doe
Can I do port forwarding with ssh as user? I thought you werent supposed to connect to the internet as SU. Any help?

Re: [newbie] Question

2000-12-18 Per discussione bascule
do you mean CNR? communication/network riser or similar, basically as far as i know it aims to be to comms and ntework devices what the amr slot is to soundcards and modems, personally i've seen a few mobos with these slots on but never come across a card in them, come to that i've come across

Re: [newbie] Re: Learning curves

2000-12-18 Per discussione bascule
ah, only if the y axis is a measure of achievement or knowledge gained/attained at a particular time, if however it shows the cumulative effort expended then it makes sense, alternatively one can interpret the graph as having an unspoken but assumed z axix of expertise thus leading to a

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.76

2000-12-18 Per discussione s
Why not use the 'update' feature. That's what I did, and it went flawlessly. Netscape 4.76 even seems a little faster than 4.75. I think I picked the sunsite site. -s On Monday 18 December 2000 08:49 pm, you wrote: I just tried to update from 4.75 to 4.76, but the common file is giving

[newbie] Tmpwatch Error

2000-12-18 Per discussione SoloCDM
Tmpwatch displayed the error below when refusing to remove a specified file. I later discovered, through trial and error, that tmpwatch doesn't allow a specified filename to be included in the syntax . . . only a directory name. What command allows tracking of a specific file's age? error:

[newbie] ALS-120 sound card won't config

2000-12-18 Per discussione Dennis Myers
The hardware support for linux-Mandrake says my ALS-120 is supported, in almost every config I try this is the error message I get, can anyone tell me what I need to fix? This card worked in 7.1 but now in 7.2 I can get nothing. TIA for any help. The following error occurred running the

[newbie] Install Hang on in second stage install

2000-12-18 Per discussione Brad Cenko
Greetings, I have a Dell Inspiron 3200 laptop, and I experimented some this summer with LM 7.0, with my 4 gig harddrive equally partioned between Windows 98 and LM 7.0. Finally I decided I was ready to make the move to a Microsoft free computer (plus I had no room left on my hard drive),

Re: [[newbie] ssh port forwarding as user?]

2000-12-18 Per discussione Altoine Barker
Jon, First, "ssh" works by encrypting your communication not by setting rights to it. Second, from your statement, I don't know what you are trying to ask other then that you had the concept of "ssh" all wrong. More info bud. Enjoy -- Al Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I do port

Re: [newbie] Helix GNOME Mandrake 7.2

2000-12-18 Per discussione Anthony
Yes, you can install with 7.2. However there are a few problems with doing that. First your menus get screwed up a little bit in Gnome. You have multiple links to programs in the menus and they become pretty cluttered. Secondly MandrakeUpdate won't work right with updates concered with

Re: [[newbie] ssh port forwarding as user?]

2000-12-18 Per discussione Jon Doe
Altoine Barker wrote: Jon, First, "ssh" works by encrypting your communication not by setting rights to it. Second, from your statement, I don't know what you are trying to ask other then that you had the concept of "ssh" all wrong. More info bud. Enjoy -- Al Ok, I will explain in

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1 Beta 1

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
2.01 would be much more stable than 2.1 simply because 2.1 is currently in beta and 2.01 is a 2.0 bugfix release. The main reason why I'm using 2.1 Beta 1 is that I was directed to use a CVS version by Mandrakesoft since 2.0 was too unstable for me. This was about a month ago, before 2.01 was

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-18 Per discussione Romanator
Hi Traci, I remember this happening to me quite some time ago. Okay. You'll have to do this while logged in as "root". I'm trying to do this from memory - so please bear with me. Click on the KDE icon. Navigate to Look 'n Feel. Check out the different settings for the mouse. There is one setting

Re: [Re: [[newbie] ssh port forwarding as user?]]

2000-12-18 Per discussione Altoine Barker
Jon, I see now. And to your answer, yes, you can su and do that. No one will be able to (in theory) listen in on your line and understand a word of what you are doing between your server and you. I do "su" all the time when I "ssh" into my machine. By the way, I have a question for you sheepish

Re: [newbie] Default Icons in Sawfish and Gnome

2000-12-18 Per discussione Romanator
Traci, Log in as root and click on the KDE Control Center. Try the following steps: 1. Select the KDE Control Center button 2. Navigate to LookNFeel-General 3. Choose the General tab 4a. Place checkmark next to "Align Icon Vertically on Desktop 4b. Place checkmark next to "Enable Desktop Menu"

[newbie] Backpack CD-ROM boot.img soon?

2000-12-18 Per discussione Rick Fierro II
Will you have a boot.img that works with Microsolutions Backpack CD-Roms anytime soon? Is there any other way to get Mandrake to recognize my CD-Rom during installation? Potential dev machine: Dell XPi 133 (laptop) Backpack Bantam CD-Rom 2GB HD 32MB memory Any help would be very appreciated.

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
DrakConf in Mandrake 7.2 has an "Internet Connection Sharing" feature. I haven't tried it, so I can't say how good it is. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:06, Angel Rodriguez wrote: My home network is running Win98 on my desktop and Win95 on my corporate laptop. I want to add my Linux Mandrake only

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I agree with you - at least in part. I believe that Linux should have legacy hardware support, but only if those like us are not disadvantaged. As I've said before, Linux is all about choice. If someone wants to plug in a one-button i-mac USB mouse and use that, then they should be able to, no

Re: [Re: [newbie] More disk space for the Linux partition]

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
GNU Parted is getting there, but it'll be a little while before I'd trust it with my data. If you want to use it, do a backup first. For more info, look at http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 20:18, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: What about parted? Sridhar Dhanapalan

Re: [newbie] Question

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've only read bad things about CNR and AMR in recent motherboard reviews. It costs extra to put these functions in a mobo, and there is little hardware support for them anyway. Some newer mobos, like the Abit KT7, don't have them at all. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:21, bascule wrote: do you mean

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.76

2000-12-18 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I've found Netscape 4.76 to be much more stable and a bit faster than previous versions. On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 04:17, s wrote: Why not use the 'update' feature. That's what I did, and it went flawlessly. Netscape 4.76 even seems a little faster than 4.75. I think I picked the sunsite site.

Re: [newbie] Internet Connection Sharing

2000-12-18 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
I've used that to share my cable connection with a couple of Macs and it was absolutely effortless. I just set the Macs to use DHCP, then ran the "Internet Connection Sharing" command, and they were on. No rebooting needed. It shouldn't be that much harder for your Windows boxes, assuming

[newbie] error with icepref

2000-12-18 Per discussione liuxj
Hi, Folks, I met trouble with icepref as below, [lxj@fsbbs lxj]$ icepref Tracebak (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/icepref", line 22, in ? from gtk import * ImportError: No module named gtk I guess it's caused by some gtk package, but don't know which one. Any clues? Thanks lxj

Re: [newbie] Netscape 4.76

2000-12-18 Per discussione Barry Premeaux
That's the method I chose. I have been successfully updating my apps that way for some time now. Changing server sources didn't help. Netscape 4.76's common gives me an error saying that it isn't signed. If I tell it to install anyway, it then comes back with an error saying it was unable to

[newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-18 Per discussione misha misha
i am this |--| close to reformatting the drive and installing a better distro than mandrake . the mouse is hyperactive , in ( not only movement ) but in clicking , activating all sorts of menus , sliding in and out the taskbar , tehn crashing the whole thing . nothing left to do but hard

RE: [newbie] ALS-120 sound card won't config

2000-12-18 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
SOME but not all of the sound modules are already loaded while you are attempting to configure the card. This doesn't work. Follow these directions... 1) Remove all references to your sound modules in modules.conf 2) Rename your existing isapnp.conf file to something else. 3) Remove all