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

2000-12-19 Per discussione Andrea Celli
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: "[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 Prova a fare due

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

2000-12-19 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: "[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-it] Re:R: Problemi con Netscape

2000-12-19 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Mi vengono in mente solo due cose che ti dico giusto per partecipare perche' sicuramente saranno corrette: errore di autenticazione (ppp cade e netscape non riesce a risolvere i nomi dei domini - a me era capitato) oppure un problema di permessi per cui root possa avviare correttamente ppp mentre

[newbie-it] Netscape 6: l'avete provato?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Ciao a tutti! Qualcuno di voi ha provato la versione 6 di Netscape? (ovviamente per il pinguino!). Ho sentito dire che non e' molto stabile. Voi cosa mi dite? Grazie. Steo. __ Do You Yahoo!? Il tuo indirizzo gratis e per

Re: [newbie-it] Netscape 6: l'avete provato?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Giga [TechOperator]
Dopo un ora di usanza io ho reinstallato quello vecchio :) anche quanda si carica e lento... comunque lo stesso anche con WIN... non so altro... SS Ciao a tutti! SS Qualcuno di voi ha provato la versione 6 di Netscape? SS (ovviamente per il pinguino!). SS Ho sentito dire che non e' molto

[newbie-it] Netscape 4.73

2000-12-19 Per discussione trasca
Salve a tutti, Ho un problemino col navigator ( ma anche con messenger): i punti interrogativi sono sostituiti da 7 gli apostrofi da punti interrogativi e qualcosa'altro di simile. Ho provato a cambiare i fants ho messo iso 8859-15, ma forse il problema non è lì. La tastiera funziona

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Traci Collins
"Jose M. Sanchez" wrote: Don't be so quick to blame instabilities on 7.2. I've put it on over 20 different systems without a hiccup on any of them. All have been running without a reboot since installation. Remember: if it really were as problematic as you say, we would all be

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-19 Per discussione Andrew Brown
So here is a question then, where are the linux hardware databases. I have been wondering about some time now where is hould go to get information on my hardware. Thank you Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: It seems that the main problem is the line "cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size

[newbie] XFree

2000-12-19 Per discussione Francois Massonneau
Hi, I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with kernel 2.2.15 and I would like to upgrade to XFree 4,xx. Is it possible ? If so, do I have to upgrade something else ? and what are the packages I need to do that upgrade ? A ftp site and the exact location would be useful as I can't load the whole page from

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
I haven't tried the optical mice on 7.2, but the Intellimouse PRO and other Wheel mice work fine for me. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Traci Collins Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 4:34 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

[newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione nicole davies
I am very much a beginner, having just purchase the linux pocket book 3rd edition. I am trying to load Mandrake 7.2 but it doesn't seem to be able to identify my hard disk. The booklet mentions Mandrake can partition the HD during installation. When booting the mandrake CD I get the response

SV: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE MEEEE

2000-12-19 Per discussione Patrik Isacsson
How do i unsubscibe to this list ?? -Ursprungligt meddelande- Fran: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]For nicole davies Skickat: den 19 december 2000 10:44 Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amne: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive) I am very much a beginner, having just

Re: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione civileme
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 10:43, you wrote: I am very much a beginner, having just purchase the linux pocket book 3rd edition. I am trying to load Mandrake 7.2 but it doesn't seem to be able to identify my hard disk. The booklet mentions Mandrake can partition the HD during installation.

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione s
I have some cheap wheel mouse: Genius Netscroll. It works perfectly. First I selected MS IW in the config (though the last tiime I was looking around, standard mouse was highlighted), and I put: exec /usr/bin/imwheel -k in my /etc/rc.local file. Running 7.2 with the 2.2.17 kernel and KDE

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Romanator
It's quite strange. Although, I select Intellimouse for my mouse, it keeps going back to standard. This has been going on for several releases. It performs like the Intellimouse. However, the graphical shows standard. I guess it must be a default setting? Roman Registered Linux user: #197855

Re: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
It looks like your problem is that your hard drive is plugged into a controller card and not the motherboard. I'm not sure how to get Linux to recognise this (though I'm sure there's a way), but perhaps you could plug the HDD into the motherboard slot and try that, at least until you get the

[newbie] Linux hardware databases

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
NOTE: I changed the subject name of this message from "cdrecord", which is no longer appropriate. With that said, try these sites: http://lhd.zdnet.com/ http://www.linuxhardware.net/ http://linux.com/hardware/ On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 19:34, Andrew Brown wrote: So here is a question then, where

Re: [newbie] install mandrake

2000-12-19 Per discussione Mark Weaver
As a matter of fact yes. However, there may be some things that you will have to make changes to. They will most likely be found in your home dir and be application specific. -- Mark ### ## ...it's not a bug, it's a feature ## Registered Linux User # 182496 ## !-- Pine 4.31 --

Re: [newbie] Adding an HDD?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Rev, The easiest way to get this done would be to use Linuxconf--Filesystem and "add" the device to the list that you find there. Have you decided which filesystem you want to format the drive with? That will dictate how you mount the drive. As a vfat, or ext2 filesystem. You will also need to

RE: [newbie] INICIACION

2000-12-19 Per discussione Walter Peña
Les cuento mas, el CD de sistema esta ok y el soft de staroffice esta comprimido en un archivo de nombre SO51A_SOLI_34.TAR el cual abro y me aparecen una cantidad de carpetas pero no puedo ver dentro de ellas para buscar los archivos de instalación, tengo dos versiones y en ninguna de las dos

RE: [newbie] INICIACION

2000-12-19 Per discussione Walter Peña
Alguno sabe de donde bajar el staroffice 5.2 o superior, acá solo conseguís el 5.1 gracias - Original Message - From: "Walter Peña" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 5:41 PM Subject: [newbie] INICIACION Hi: i very new in linux, and i install 7.0

[newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
If I see a wallpaper that I like on the web, how do I go about using it on my desktop? I am now running Linux MDK 7.2, KDE 2. Cheers, Chris Kelly Registered Linux user 185775

Re: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Joseph Red
I recently purchased one of the Logitech optical mice, ended up returning it. It went crazy on my machine (using the USB-PS2 adapter). I had the same behavior in MDK win9x. On other PCs it worked flawlessly. My regular PS2 Intellimouse w/ ball works great. The best I could figure is my

RE: [newbie] INICIACION

2000-12-19 Per discussione Alexander Arzberger
El Staroffice 5.2 se puede bajar de: http://www.sun.com/staroffice/get.html El mc (Midnight Commander) abre cualquier tar.gr y permite copiar o extraer archivos. Entre eso hay un setup.bin Alex At 09:41 a.m. 19/12/00 -0300, you wrote: Alguno sabe de donde bajar el staroffice 5.2 o superior,

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
I had a optical mouse go crazy on me too. It flies to the upper right hand corner. I find that if I disable the scrool wheel the behavior stops. But then again, what good is it without use of the wheel. Cheers, Chris Kelly Linux user #185775 -Original Message- From: Joseph Red

[newbie] Microsoft's idea of risk

2000-12-19 Per discussione Paul
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/15101.html Microsoft urges people not to use the Internet By: Kieren McCarthy Posted: 29/11/2000 at 17:10 GMT Finding out what exactly Microsoft is thinking is harder than getting blood out of a stone or a coherent sentence out your grandma, but work

Re: [newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione - -
Save the picture, wallpaper , on your hard drive press the 2 button on your mouse , select the sub menu configure background. press on the tab wallpaper , browse and select the picture or wallpaper ... press apply press ok __ Do You Yahoo!?

Re: [newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione s
Pretty much the same way as in Windoze. Download the gif, put it anywhere. Then in the Control Panel background click browse, highlight it, click apply, ok and there it is. -s On Tuesday 19 December 2000 01:01 pm, you wrote: If I see a wallpaper that I like on the web, how do I go about

Re: SV: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE MEEEE

2000-12-19 Per discussione Adrian Smith
"Patrik Isacsson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3:20:59 AM 12/19/00 How do i unsubscibe to this list ?? post to the list your: full name credit card numbers with date of expiration JPG image of boy/girlfriend or husband/wife that persons name, address phone number. soon the mail from the list will not

Re: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey Paul, I am trying to load Mandrake 7.2 but it doesn't seem to be able to identify my hard disk. The booklet mentions Mandrake can partition the HD during installation. When booting the mandrake CD I get the response 'hda: no response (reseting drive)'. It then goes through the

[newbie] Trouble installing X with LM 7.2

2000-12-19 Per discussione Michael Sternberg
I just received my new copies of LM 7.2 from CheapBytes and I cannot make X work.. :( I tried all three types of installation - including Custom and Expert. It recognizes my video card correctly but when I try to test my choosen configuration computer freezes. After that when I try to run startx

[newbie] unsubscribe

2000-12-19 Per discussione Michael zhao

Re: [newbie] Problem installing KDE2.1 beta

2000-12-19 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 December 2000 09:52 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 17 December 2000 03:53 pm, Michael O'Henly wrote: Here's what I've done so far... 1. A clean install of Mandrake 7.2. 3. Downloaded all the KDE2.1beta RPMs. There's a common factor here tho. AFAIK, we're the only

Re: [newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 07:01 am, Kelly, Christopher wrote: If I see a wallpaper that I like on the web, how do I go about using it on my desktop? I am now running Linux MDK 7.2, KDE 2. Put the pics (I use .jpg) in your /home/user/.kde/share/wallpapers/ Then in Control Center | Look'n Feel

Re: [Re: [newbie] wallpaper]

2000-12-19 Per discussione Altoine Barker
But... if you want to have all your wallpaper files in the same directory as yuor default wallpaper files, then you will have to be root to copy them to /usr/share/wallpapers. And for your icons, /usr/share/icons Enjoy -- Al s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much the same way as in

RE: [Re: [newbie] wallpaper]

2000-12-19 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
Thank you all! -Original Message- From: Altoine Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] wallpaper] But... if you want to have all your wallpaper files in the same directory as yuor default wallpaper

Re: [newbie] kernel Panic

2000-12-19 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 December 2000 01:55 pm, Vikram Haravu wrote: 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 Win98 on my PC. Now I cannot use Linux. So I used the Linux

[newbie] atapi zip drive

2000-12-19 Per discussione John and Marcie Alexander
I am running LM7.2 and I have an all scsi system (hd and cd-rw). However, I am using an internal zip atapi drive plugged into the primary ide controller. Under windows, this drive comes up as rive b: Under linux, I keep getting "drive reports both x and 0 bytes" or something similiar (I

Re: [newbie] Adding an HDD?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 18 December 2000 06:36 am, Revenant wrote: 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. I believe the easiest way is to boot your LM install CD and choose 'upgrade' -- Tom Brinkman

Re: [newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione Robin Regennitter
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 05:01 am, you wrote: you can copy the jpg file to /usr/share/wallpaper. then go to control center - looknfeel - background - wallpaper. If I see a wallpaper that I like on the web, how do I go about using it on my desktop? I am now running Linux MDK 7.2, KDE 2.

[newbie] test, please ignore

2000-12-19 Per discussione liuxj
test -- Nothing is impossible for Linux, :)

[newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/network and sbin/ifup

2000-12-19 Per discussione Richard Warwick
hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like "

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

2000-12-19 Per discussione Herman Christiani
Hello, If your mobo does have a isa slot you can also use internal isa modems, as far as I know only the pci modems are winmodems, I bought mine acouple of weeks ago brandnew, runs great. HTH, Herman On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Monday 18 December 2000 01:37, you wrote: Dear techies,

RE: [newbie] hda: no response (reseting drive)

2000-12-19 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Actually the opposite is true. The ASUS A7V has an On Board Promise ATA100 controller. This controller is supported in 7.2 but it is the PCI controller that it looks for, with an on board controller the driver is not loaded and therefor the hd is not seen. civileme in an earlier post listed an

Re: [newbie] wallpaper

2000-12-19 Per discussione Jon Doe
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 03:30 am, you wrote: Pretty much the same way as in Windoze. Download the gif, put it anywhere. Then in the Control Panel background click browse, highlight it, click apply, ok and there it is. -s Gif? Those will work too? I have always used jpg files for

Re: [newbie] Modem Question

2000-12-19 Per discussione civileme
On Monday 18 December 2000 01:37, you wrote: Dear techies, I am running linux mandrake 7.2 complete edition. I have a US Robotics 56k Voice Win modem that is hooked up internally and is running on com 2. Please let me know if this modem is compatibly with the operating system or any

[newbie] ftp/telnet services

2000-12-19 Per discussione Hipolito Lopez
Hi to all, I'm a new member of a list, and also some new in that of linux. Mi problem is the following: I download the linux-mandrake version 7.2, I installed, and everything it's ok. I can connect to other machine in my network, and I can make a ftp and telnet to other. But, when somebody try

RE: [newbie] 7.2 stability , mouse issues .

2000-12-19 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
I've noticed the the Xsession startup does not seem to invoke imwheel properly. I ended up adding imwheel -k to Xsetup_0 and got the mouse wheel working this way. Harddrake and Drakconf still thinks it's a Standard Mouse no matter what I do however... This seems to be more of a script issue

[newbie] adding to the path

2000-12-19 Per discussione tparker
I have a ML 7.0 box that I am using at work to play with as a firewall. I have installed the firewall software that my company uses to work withproblem isif I want to start the configuration program -- on our production machine (sun ultra10) I can just type cpconfig and it loads right

[newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Can someone tell me how to get to a prompt when booting? I am running 7.2 with grub but at times I would just like to boot to a prompt.Thanks in advance...

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-19 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold
I think a new user should be faced with something like this: Xwindows Mouse Installation Wiz Button 1[add] list of functions Button 2[remove]list of functions Button 3 or 1+2 list of functions Button 4 1+2 or

[newbie] Re: unsubscribe

2000-12-19 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold

RE: [newbie] ftp/telnet services

2000-12-19 Per discussione John Hart
Check your inetd.conf file. Also, do you have a hosts.allow and a hosts.deny file? The problem may reside there... Watch out when you open up those ftp and telnet ports, they are vulnerable. John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Paul
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Dale Kosan wrote: Can someone tell me how to get to a prompt when booting? I am running 7.2 with grub but at times I would just like to boot to a prompt.Thanks in advance... Type linux 3 and hit enter. That gets you to runlevel 3, which is textmode multiuser. linux 1 is

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Dale Kosan wrote: Can someone tell me how to get to a prompt when booting? I am running 7.2 with grub but at times I would just like to boot to a prompt.Thanks in advance... Dalechoose failsafe. -- Alan

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks Alan,very simple,should have figured it out myself.

Re: [newbie] prompt.....

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dale Kosan
Thanks Paul, another quick response : )

RE: [newbie] Exporting X

2000-12-19 Per discussione Tagbo Ekwueme-Okoli
I got Gnome to work OK. It must be a problem with KDE 2.0.1. Exceed seems to behave strangely also. I will investigate this but at least I have something working. Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Fireman71 Sent: Tuesday, December

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

2000-12-19 Per discussione Adrian Smith
Holly said the below: BTW, for the person in the thread who had the very large swap space -- 2GB I think? I'm not deep enough into Linux to say for sure, but even in the Windoze world there was a point at which increasing swap space actually brought a negative return. I wonder if you sized that

[newbie] Video fades to black

2000-12-19 Per discussione Riker
Gang: I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on my third system. The first two were walks through the doughnut shop, but this one is being a bit picky. Here is the problem: The installation goes wonderfully well, and when the system finishes, it reboots. It goes through the startup screens just

Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2000-12-19 Per discussione Andrew Brown
Easy, install Mandrake so that the boot partition is well within the first 8 gigs off your harddrive. My situation with my 19 gig drives is first 6 gigs win2k next 3 gis mandrake last 10 gigs windows(media partition) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago,

RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup

2000-12-19 Per discussione Richard Warwick
Roger, yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. Thanks for the response. Richard -Original Message- From:

[newbie] RE:ftp/telnet services

2000-12-19 Per discussione Hipolito Lopez
thanks for the help... it was the hosts.deny where I can got a documentation about it (hosts.allow and hosts.deny) winmail.dat

[newbie] XMMS won't start

2000-12-19 Per discussione Chris Aakre
I'm on LM 7.2, and xmms won't start as a regular user. I try to start it in a console, and it just sits there with the command, doing nothing. If I try to start it from the desktop, it just shows one xmms thread doing nothing with ps aux (instead of the multiple threads it usually has). This

[newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-19 Per discussione Mickey Soltys
Hello all, I am running Mandrake 2.2.17-21. I have a Soundblaster Live soundcard which works fine under Winblows. However, when I try to configure it with Harddrake, I get the following message /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/alsa/snd-card-emu10k/.0:init.nodule: device or resource busy. Has

Re: SV: [newbie] UNSUBSCRIBE MEEEE

2000-12-19 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 19 December 2000 04:20 am, you wrote: How do i unsubscibe to this list ?? Go to the Linux-Mandrake Mail list web page where you subscribed. There are instructions there for temporarily stopping mail and starting and unsubscribing. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/flists.php3

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I like your idea, but this appears to be more of a job for the window manager than for X itself, since different window managers have different feature sets and different ways of doing things. As I mentioned before, I quite like the Sawfish configuration options. These allow a multitude of

Re: [newbie] Adding an HDD?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:13, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2000 09:44 am, Mark Weaver wrote: Tom, That interesting...why would you do that? Use upgrade? Because it's the most bulletproof way to setup the new HDD, including config files that maybe affected (eg, fstab,

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I bought Linux Mandrake 7.0 months ago, and now I'm reading up trying to figure out how to use it. I've look at the documentation on the Mandrake page, the Instillation How-To, the Win95+Linux How- To,

RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Yeah, thats what I'm saying though...once I entered that command, it initialized successfully on subsequent bootups...don't know why, but it did, and continues to... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: Roger,

RE: [newbie] atapi zip drive

2000-12-19 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Heh, you have one of those older "weird" Zip drives that did not conform to the EIDE specs. I know because I have one too! Hence the /dev/hda problem. Newer drives I've tried work as everyone says they do here. As /dev/hda4. Those older drives were a little weird with the partitioning

[newbie] how to write scripts

2000-12-19 Per discussione Melanie Vida
Can someone please give me clear detailed instructions (other than cryptic man page references) on how to write a script file, which opens netscape at certain times during the day? On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Ignacio Horcas Calvo wrote: - Original Message - From: Roger Sherman [EMAIL

[newbie] majordomo

2000-12-19 Per discussione KompuKit
has anyone gotten majordomo working on 7.2 -- Registered Linux User:167369 =KompuKit= Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lowell, Mass. Web Designer

Re: [newbie] atapi zip drive

2000-12-19 Per discussione David Raleigh Arnold
John and Marcie Alexander wrote: I am running LM7.2 and I have an all scsi system (hd and cd-rw). However, I am using an internal zip atapi drive plugged into the primary ide controller. Under windows, this drive comes up as rive b: Under linux, I keep getting "drive reports both x

[newbie] uninstalling Xfree 3.x

2000-12-19 Per discussione John and Marcie Alexander
I installed lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. When I ran X -version, I got 3.something as my current version, even though I checked the rpms installed and it seems x version 4.0 is installed. When I redirected X to the 4.0 server, all works fine now. Does this mean I have

[newbie] agpgart - how to uninstall

2000-12-19 Per discussione John and Marcie Alexander
I am using lm7.2 and finally got my nvidia drivers working. The nvidia install directions suggest that X will lock up if I attempt to use both the kernal's and nvidia's agpgart driver (which it does). I had to use the option in XF86Config-4 to disable agp support for my system to work and

[newbie] WooHOOO!!!

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
To whomever it was that told me that RAM at crucial was as cheap as it is now, thanks! And thanks again! I just installed another 128 SDRAM, for a total of 192, and the difference is nothing short of astounding... Just to see what kind of a difference it made, I opened ten + programs, starting

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Or, if putting the bulk of the OS within the first 8 gig is not an option, put a 20 meg partition at the very front of the HD and run the installation discs...lilo will automatically be installed there... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Hey Sridhar... OK, there was a guy who had virtually the same CD-RW as I do in the expert list, who got the same message about the controller returning the wrong size...he said in 7.1, even though he got that message, his CD-RW worked flawlessly. In 7.2 it's a bit more intermittant, but it

[newbie] C++ resources

2000-12-19 Per discussione Jeremy Sudderth
Hello everybody, I was wondering if you know any good C++ resources on the web. I am trying to learn now that I have gcc configured on my system at home. TIA

Re: [newbie] WooHOOO!!!

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
LOL...no bubble burst here...if it looked like I said I opened multiple instances of Netscape, I worded myself poorly. What I meant to say was I opened every pig I could, in KDE (I usually use the much more memory friendly blackbox) including, but not limited to - netscape, xmms (playing mp3s, of

Re: [newbie] C++ resources

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Its not on the web (at least mine isn't, lol), but I just got Practical C++ Programming (O'Reilly), and it's pretty good... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Jeremy Sudderth wrote: Hello everybody, I was wondering if you know any

Re: [newbie] XMMS won't start

2000-12-19 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Do other audio programs, or any programs that use any audio, work in your profile, or is it just xmms that is the problem? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Chris Aakre wrote: I'm on LM 7.2, and xmms won't start as a regular user. I

Re: [newbie] XMMS won't start

2000-12-19 Per discussione Chris Aakre
Yes, I'm playing a CD in my account right now. I honestly have no idea what could be wrong... this is the output when I try to start xmms in the consol. [chris@localhost chris]$ xmms and it just sits there. On Tuesday 19 December 2000 15:53, you wrote: Do other audio programs, or any

Re: [newbie] XMMS won't start

2000-12-19 Per discussione Aric S. Bergren
Roger Sherman wrote: Do other audio programs, or any programs that use any audio, work in your profile, or is it just xmms that is the problem? peace, Hey, I wonder if this problem has to do with user permissions...you may want to right click the xmms file and go into properties...you

[newbie] SMP support in 7.2 ?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Cem Topdemir
hello, i'm new to linux,and about to build a dual cpu machine.Can mandrake 7.2 currently see and use 2 processors by default?.I was very surprised when i read that smp is not enabled in some distros (corel linux).I couldn't find any info at Mandrake's site. If not,is there an "easy"

Re: [newbie] Install Hang on in second stage install

2000-12-19 Per discussione Mike
I am experiencing the install problem with a store bought version of Mandrake 7.2, a couple of times I was able to hit F12 at the precise moment to get the installer to bypass loading the RAMDISK, but the install faulted later on, and have never been able to sucessfully install a Linux OS, I

Re: [newbie] SMP support in 7.2 ?

2000-12-19 Per discussione LinuxTests
Yes, Mandrake 7.2 will install with SMP support when a clean install is done ... just did it today on the Epox dual board On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, you wrote: hello, i'm new to linux,and about to build a dual cpu machine.Can mandrake 7.2 currently see and use 2 processors by default?.I

[newbie] xmodule ??

2000-12-19 Per discussione harry
Ive problem with xmodule(?) i cant execute the startx command when i typed starx , there is error message like this : FontTransSocketUNIXConnect : Cant connect : errno = 111 fault to set default font path 'unix/:-1' fatal server error : couldnt open default font 'fixed' xconnection to : 0.0

RE: [newbie] breaking out of a gui

2000-12-19 Per discussione Amin Yuliastanto
but on my LM7.0 doesnt wor after i push Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, X-server seems just restarting not exiting X is there any other way? Salam, Amin Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dave Sent: 18 Desember 2000 20:26 To: [EMAIL

RE: [newbie] Help with soundcard

2000-12-19 Per discussione Amin Yuliastanto
Hello all, I am not trying to solve your problem, I just want to tell you and other that i have the same problem but my soundcard is Yamaha OPL3-sax 719 chip maybe someone can help us... regards, Amin Yuliastanto -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [newbie] WooHOOO!!!

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Sorry to (partially) burst your bubble, but Netscape by default uses one and only one session. That mean that if you open Netscape and then open it again, it will detect the already existing netscape session and link into that. So in other words it is just like opening a new window. To really

[newbie] Zip drive questions?

2000-12-19 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
A friend of mine is trying to install Mandrake v7.2 on his 400mhz/128 meg Ram Pentium. He's got an internal IDE Zip drive that is driving us crazy. This drive is setup as 2nd IDE channel, slave. It works fine under Windows. When we installed Mandrake, it found it, the light comes on the drive,

Re: [newbie] cdrecord

2000-12-19 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Firstly, is your drive IDE or SCSI? Does it run off a controller card (almost a certainty if it is SCSI)? If so, then is the card ISA or PCI? Apparently ISA cards in Linux have problems with IRQs (they must be set manually). PCI cards can also have problems, though not as many. There should be

[newbie] Internet Connection Sharing

2000-12-19 Per discussione Michel Hardy-Vallee
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 machine to this network and be able to share my internet connection with Linux. The Win98 machine is running MS internet

Re: [newbie] adding to the path

2000-12-19 Per discussione Neville Cobb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ML 7.0 box that I am using at work to play with as a firewall. I have installed the firewall software that my company uses to work withproblem isif I want to start the configuration program -- on our production machine (sun ultra10) I can just type

[newbie] isdn

2000-12-19 Per discussione SKLIM
hI ! I still cannot get my DIVA T/A ISDN Modem work. I have an error " device not found ". Did someone use DIVA T/A Isdn modem before ... I need help for configuration my DIVA ISDN Modem. I am getting no respone from minicom. Best Regards, SKLIM

Re: [newbie] 1024 cylinder limit

2000-12-19 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 10:27, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Jakeyes with 7.0 you do need to make sure that the partition that contains the kernal ends before the 1024th cylinder of your drive. This is of no concern if the drive you're using is 8 megs or less in size