[newbie-it] connessione a internet

2000-12-31 Per discussione ioadamo
ciao io posseggo la mandrake7.2 e mi capita sempre un fastidioso problema alla connessione a internet. Il mio รจ un modem esterno 56k. Ogni volta che provo a connettermi mi da sempre errore e mi dice che non ho attivato il debug del pppd mi chiede di attivarlo e al secondo tentativo mi da un altro

[newbie-it] Installazione di StarOffice

2000-12-31 Per discussione Anna Spiazzi e Pietro Tosarello
Salve, Ho installato la Mandrake 7.1 creando alcuni utenti. Ora vorrei installare StarOffice in modo che sia visibile e utilizzabile da parte di tutti gli utenti. Come mi devo comportare? O meglio, ci sono accorgimenti particolari da seguire? (installazione di rete e poi installazione per ogni

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please+a laff

2000-12-31 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Well, I've seen a lot of "because the other guy is bad" stuff. And I've seen a lot of "I want my computer more stable" stuff. But neither of those really address the reasons I've been fooling with Linux for years. And none of my reasons may be meaningful to you. The context in which I run Linux

Fwd: Re[4]: [newbie] The NVIDIA Kernel Compile

2000-12-31 Per discussione Onur
Hello s, Thursday, December 28, 2000, 10:55:51 AM, you wrote: s On Thursday 14 December 2000 12:16 am, you wrote: Hellos, Wednesday, December 27, 2000, 5:31:59 PM, you wrote: s Great thanks. That did the trick. Now if I could get the agpgart moduled to s load so I could install the

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straightanswer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Herman Christiani wrote: David and Alicia Would mandrake run on a p60, 540 mb hd, ? Hi, Not likely, Mandrake needs a Pentium to run well, you are better off with something like Red Hat 5.2 for this machine. Hello Herman, P60 stands for Pentium 60. So it would work.

Re: [newbie] Kernel upgrade help!

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Jon Doe wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.1 and was wondering if I can install the kernel that comes with 7.2 ie: 2.2.17-21.mdk.rpm ? Or is this kernel specifically for 7.2? Yes, you can upgrade the kernel with no problem. Also, I was wondering what kernel rpms do I actaully

Re: [newbie] Printer Error

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: After trying to print a file as "cat filename | lpr", what caused the following message to be sent to administration? lp printer job "stdin": Your printer job (stdin) was not printed because it was not linked to the original file lpr filenamewould

[newbie] No more Gates gets Linux thread

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Hi all, Can we make a New Year's resolution to zap this thread. Say no to the gates gets Linux thread. Let's start a new one. Oh yeah, if you want to continue, please remove gates before Linux. Please!! -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione goldenpi
I heard rumers. Perhaps microsoft has realised people can use f8 to get to dos and want to remove that so they can chage $10,000 to send a repair man with a boot disk over when it goes wrong. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: There's an update to Millennium coming out later this year. I think

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione goldenpi
Winme is unfixable. If you accidently lose the drivers for the video card you cant fix it from dos. Dos does nothing. You cant reboot in dos, you cant even get to a dos prompt. I wonder how you pass command line stuff? On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: On Thursday 28 December 2000 03:06, you

Re: [newbie] Print problem

2000-12-31 Per discussione mcoady
Paul, When I run that command I get the message: Command unknown. Michael Coady You may want to run lpstat -a and see what printer is set up as the default printer. Paul

RE: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione goldenpi
In other words, nothing will work. Anything that would not work under nt will nt work under whistler. Then m$ can start chargeing for all sorts of unneeded patches. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: Whistler is no an "update" to Windows ME. It is the complete replacement of all previous

[newbie] Linux Etc.

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
2001 should be an interesting year. Roman root wrote: Hi Roman, Have a happy new year. I'm going to. I am playing with kde now trying trying to upgrade to 2.0.1 and having a ball. Anthony Daniell (Tony) Romanator wrote: Hey Tony, Have a Happy New Year. Cheers! --

Re: [newbie] How do I run a Windows Program in Linux?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 29 December 2000 07:57 pm, Jody wrote: Hi Tom, Wine is prob'ly installed, but not setup. ( locate wine ) I'm newbie-newbie!-) Is that a command to run from somewhere to find anything with 'wine' in it, you start a terminal and type 'locate wine' (w/o the 's). To find just

[newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione David and Alicia
I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be optimising our kernels? what is a kernel? David and Alicia -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of john rigbySent: 30 December 2000 02:21To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Package Installation

2000-12-31 Per discussione Donald Munson
I have LM72 and am having a problem (I think) attempting to install the package make. I am using the rpmdrake and select make to install; it runs but does not leave the list. Go to a terminal and try to use the command only to be told 'make not available'. Return to rpmdrake and select

Re: [newbie] Ram seen in 7.2

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: only showing 64mg I have added the append = "mem=128" to lilo.conf but it does not seem to have made a difference to what the control center Did you remember to run lilo as a command after the change? (You need to do this as root). That will fix

[newbie] Login Screen Size

2000-12-31 Per discussione Neville Cobb
I have installed my system to a resolution of 1280x1024 using the experienced option but the login screen appears to be at very low resolution. Can I up the resolution of the login screen and how. When I previously installed using the customised option the login screen matched the X resolution

[newbie] Fwd: KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)

2000-12-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in

Re: [newbie] gcc tutorial

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 30 December 2000 04:45 am, Abraham Mandac wrote: Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]? I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet. Thanks, Abe go to Google and search 'gcc tutorial', it'll return 35,000 links, some which might be useful

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Dennis Myers
I have to jump in to this discussion, because I just can't help myself. I have used windows for as long as it has existed. Started with the DOS boot up before Windows 3.1 and right on up to 98. I got so tired of the blue screen and system freezes. I took Norton Antivirus off of our home

Re: [newbie] Fast CPU

2000-12-31 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Yeah yeah yeah... :) yuck it up. If I get this working though, (not holding my breath - I might pass out) it would be cool! Mark Roger Sherman wrote: Hey Mark, my email client uses Procmail just fine! ;-) Pine, by the way...;-p peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered

[newbie] upgrading 7.1 to 7.2

2000-12-31 Per discussione Peter Drahos
Hi, Is there a way to remotely initiate an upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. How would you do it? Using RPMs or Or second question: Is there a way to verify and upgrade all dependant rpms. Example Apache Web server. Tx for all answers Peter D.

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione goldenpi
Look at this number sequence: 512k 1m 4m 8m 32m see how quickly it goes up? They are the memory requirements for windows. dos would word with 512k. windows 3.11 needed 4 meg. windows 95 needed 8 meg. Windows 98 needed 32Meg. Whistler will need so much people will have to buy more. And look at

[newbie] mounting

2000-12-31 Per discussione Greg Sarsons
using mdk 7.2secure with security @high just switched to kde after this reinstall and can't seem to figure out allowing myself as a normal user how to mount removable media (don't want to use supermount). for example my floppy entry in fstab is /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione goldenpi
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, you wrote: ok, here is the real question: why do people try running linux?, the impression i had gathered was that it was a lighter os and could be used on older machines, (i386 etc). I was a little dismayed when i saw the download size. How much disk space will a bare

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want astraight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Abraham Mandac
At 03:03 PM 12/29/00 -0500, you wrote: Abraham Mandac wrote: When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't it?]. I got LM 7.1 more than 2

Re: [newbie] When the printer goes mad

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Barry Premeaux wrote: Hi Barry, Netscape (4.76) just locked up on me and I couldn't kill it from the command line. I went 'su' and opened gtop. If you highlight the process you want to kill, you can do a right mouse click, slide Hmmm... I wonder why I did not think of

Re: [newbie] Netscape

2000-12-31 Per discussione Neville Cobb
Herman Christiani wrote: Hi All, Can somebody tell me what is the latest 4.7x version of Netscape? I'm running 4.73, after trying to find a later version I was told by Netscape that I was already running the latest version for my platform (MD 7.1), afaik the latest is 4.76, will this not

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Onur
Hello First of all, NO QUESTION IS DUMB, especially in the newbie list ! You are here to learn... :) RPM , redhat package management, a sort of automatic installation system. It contains the files, and info where the files will be put, and also some scripts, that can manage some

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione L. H. LOO
At 30-12-2000 +, you wrote: I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be optimising our kernels? what is a kernel? David and Alicia From OReilly Running Linux, page 10 : "The kernel is the guts of the operating system itself; it's the code that controls the

Re: [newbie] modem support

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:00 pm, chengkenneth wrote: How can I make my PCI(internal) 56K modem function in mandrake 7.1? Most, but not all pci modems are not real modems and won't work with Linux. Find out your modem's make/model number and check it against the list here:

Re: [newbie] SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jeffrey Norris
Ended up reinstalling because I wanted to use the entire drive for 7.2 and I hoped it would resolve the cdroms/ls120 configuration problemwhich it did. Now though, X-CD-ROAST starts up saying "Something on the SCSI-Bus has changed. Please check your writer and reader configuration in

Re: [newbie] gcc tutorial

2000-12-31 Per discussione Po Kwok
Abraham Mandac wrote: Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]? I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet. Thanks, Abe go to http://www.howstuffworks.com/ on their search engine, type in 'c programming'. that will lead you to their c tutorial, which

Re: [newbie] O'Reilly book

2000-12-31 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Saturday 30 December 2000 10:47, you wrote: The latest edition of O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' is the second edition, right? Just want to be absolutely sure before I go out to get it. Thanks -- Abe The current latest and greatest edition is the third. I have the second edition, I

Re: [newbie] O'Reilly book

2000-12-31 Per discussione James Mellema
Abraham Mandac wrote: The latest edition of O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' is the second edition, right? No Abe, the current edition is "Third", Its bigger an dmore current. I've almost worn mine out. -- Jim James Mellema, CRNA It's the end of

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, David and Alicia wrote: I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be optimising our kernels? what is a kernel? David and Alicia Hi David and Alicia, Let's see. The kernel. This is the heart of the operating system. It is a file you can find in the

Re: [newbie] gcc tutorial

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Abraham Mandac wrote: Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]? I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet. Thanks, Abe Hello Abe, I found a lot of good books through a good web page at: http:/www.informit.com They allow you to review portions of the

Re: [newbie] Ram seen in 7.2

2000-12-31 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 30 December 2000 02:27 pm, you wrote: On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Dennis Myers wrote: only showing 64mg I have added the append = "mem=128" to lilo.conf but it does not seem to have made a difference to what the control center Did you remember to run lilo as a command after the

[newbie] Partitions

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jeffrey Norris
I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as 'oldwindows', 'oldlinux' etc. I have reinstalled before and didn't get all of that. Is there a way to rewrite the boot record so that it is as it was before

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 30 December 2000 02:25 pm, David and Alicia wrote: I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be optimising our kernels? what is a kernel? What is a 'clarity mark answer'? Please post in plain ASCII text. It's the number one rule for this and most all

[newbie] NVIDIA

2000-12-31 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey, I'm wondering about this subject as well. I've a Diamond Viper 770D with 32MB RAM, using the Riva TnT 2[v5] module. Till yesterday, I was running some "Other" module, but I'd reset the Riva in drakcomf had also installed the glide files from CD. Some games are now fine, but others

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Ah - good one!! goldenpi wrote: I heard rumers. Perhaps microsoft has realised people can use f8 to get to dos and want to remove that so they can chage $10,000 to send a repair man with a boot disk over when it goes wrong. On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, you wrote: There's an update to

Re: [newbie] O'Reilly book

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Abraham Mandac wrote: The latest edition of O'Reilly's 'Running Linux' is the second edition, right? Just want to be absolutely sure before I go out to get it. Thanks -- Abe That's the one I am using. You can always check with O'Reilly's. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293

[newbie] Wrong shut down

2000-12-31 Per discussione Joan Tur
Hallo!! I've got a problem. I've reinstalled because of a problem with Corel Photo Paint 9 and now the system is not shuting down. It stops/shuts some services and then the following appears: INIT:no more processes left in this runlevel And it remains there 8-? Thanks!! -- Joan Tur.

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just wantastraight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Abraham Mandac wrote: At 03:03 PM 12/29/00 -0500, you wrote: Abraham Mandac wrote: When I was just about getting fed up with how Visual C++ fails to compile simple bits of code, I read somewhere that the best C compilers run under unix [and that sort of includes linux, doesn't

Re: [newbie] Kernel Source

2000-12-31 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey Riker, I'm taking my first stab at messing with the Kernel. Such as recompiling and then I'm going to compile a new kernel. The problem I'm having now is that the kernel source wasn't installed during the install. Is there a way to install the source kernel so I can do things such as

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Mark Hillary
Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary - Original Message - From: "goldenpi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 3:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Look at this number sequence:

[newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any help will be appreciated. Go Broncos, beat the Ravens!! Jerold

Re: [newbie] SCSI, CD-RW, LS120 Problem

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: Ended up reinstalling because I wanted to use the entire drive for 7.2 and I hoped it would resolve the cdroms/ls120 configuration problemwhich it did. Now though, X-CD-ROAST starts up saying "Something on the SCSI-Bus has changed. Please check your

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Dev Sen
At 20:25 30/12/2000, you wrote: I'd like to know, can somebody put me straight on why we should be optimising our kernels? what is a kernel? David and Alicia Assuming this is not a wind-up. The kernel is the "guts" of the operating systems. This is the software that makes the computer come

[newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any help will be appreciated. Go Broncos, beat the Ravens!! Jerold

[newbie] zip driver permissions

2000-12-31 Per discussione marcia
Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out and place them unto my desktop but I cannot place a file into my zip. As root I can do it

[newbie] Login/font problems

2000-12-31 Per discussione Kipling Cooper
Happy 7th day of Christmas! (7 penguins a swimming?) The message I sent earlier this morning has not yet appeared, so hear is some more information on the same problems. The Linux login works almost to the end. The last entry I can read says : Running Linuxconf hooks Then something about

Re: [newbie] How do I run a Windows Program in Linux?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jody
Hi Tom and Onur, (Thanks for the tip Onur - sometimes GUI progs are best when just starting off, but I'm getting the hang of the commandline now and prefer it - most the time g) Say, can I type ? or help... at the prompt and get a list of commands? to find anything with 'wine' in it, you start

RE: [newbie] test ignore

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jerold Von Hemel
test post ignore -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Hillary Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 10:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the

RE: [newbie] expletive deleted gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Rick Commo
[ please note the change in subject line as per Roman's request! ;-) ] -Original Message- From: goldenpi Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 7:01 AM In other words, nothing will work. Anything that would not work under nt will In other words, nothing will work. ... Lots of things

Re: [newbie] Gimp xscanimage

2000-12-31 Per discussione Herman Jalink
On Saturday 30 December 2000 15:51, you wrote: Hallo!! I've got a scanner and i load it's module whenever i want to use it. The problem is that i have to scan using xscanimage because under Gimp the option adquire shows only "screen shot" 8-? What else do i have to do? Thanks!! I

[newbie] Kernel Sanders

2000-12-31 Per discussione Julio Gutierrez
Just wondering, Is there any books on how to optimize and compile the Linux kernel? if any one knows pls let me know, and also how can I upgrade a kernel let's say from 2.1 to 2.4 ? Your replies will be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Goldenpi
Its also more stable ebcause a small crash in windows will take the system with it. Under linux the same small crash will take down the application but will leave everything else untouched. If you accidentially put your program into an endless loop you can just switch console and kill it. -

[newbie] Kernel Sanders 2

2000-12-31 Per discussione Julio Gutierrez
Does anyone know where I can get the latest Kernel (which is 2.4) as RPM?

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straightanswer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Herman Christiani
Hi Paul, David and Alicia, The answer is yes and no, the p60 is a pentium, but from the p133 or p166 onwards(not fully sure about this) they changed the internal architecture of the cpu, also a p60 is not really more powerfull then let say a 486DX100. Have a happy New Year, Herman Paul wrote:

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Goldenpi
I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just wanted to get it up to 166. It should have worked but I didn't know the core voltage was too high. I thought it was just a cooling problem and tried to fix it by stuffing the heatsink with thermal paste. I ended up buying a p166 with

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Eugene C. Zesch
Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Simply not true. It ran on mine till I erased it in favor of Mandrake 6.0. Gene

Re: [newbie] Why use linux at all? - not heresy, just want a straight answer please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Goldenpi
Win95 will run on a 386. I dont know if it will install on a 386 through. I once had 95 running on a 386 with 8 mi ram. I got the hard drive second hand with windows on it. Then I just had to put it in and turn on. - Original Message - From: Mark Hillary [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] zip driver permissions

2000-12-31 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey Marcia, Try this line: /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0 Dear All, I have Linux-Mandrake 7.2 and I had my internal Atapi zip drive supermounted and it was working fine until recently. As user all of a sudden I cannot copy a file into my zip. I can take them out

[newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Per discussione Kevin Taylor
Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both common and communicator RPMs

RE: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione David and Alicia
Definitely not a wind up question, I'm just new to all of this. Thanks for your reply Dev David and Alicia -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dev Sen Sent: 31 December 2000 18:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb

Re: [newbie] How do I run a Windows Program in Linux?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 31 December 2000 01:09 pm, Jody wrote: This is assuming you leave your computer running overnight so that cron updates you files. If you don't you might need to run (as root) 'locate -u' or 'updatedb' (your choice, they both do the same thing). It appears you imply that it

Re: [newbie] Partitions

2000-12-31 Per discussione Paul
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Jeffrey Norris wrote: I just reinstalled 7.2 (actually a couple of times) and now when I boot I'm getting all of these different entries in the loader. Such as 'oldwindows', 'oldlinux' etc. I have reinstalled before and didn't get all of that. Is there a way to rewrite the

[newbie] install netsaint

2000-12-31 Per discussione Andri Genio
Does anyone know how to install netsaint ? i couldn't found the rpm of netsaint in linux mandrake disc if someone know please tell me thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/

[newbie] boot errors

2000-12-31 Per discussione Michel Hardy-Vallee
Hi there, I am unsing Linux Mandrake 7.2, each time I load, I get the following messages in /var/log/messages: modprobe: Can't locate module char-major-4 last message repeated 67 times PAM_unix[1031]: (system-auth) session opened for user root by (uid=0) modprobe: Can't locate module

Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 31 December 2000 12:49 pm, Jerold Von Hemel wrote: I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any

[newbie] Re: Printer Error

2000-12-31 Per discussione SoloCDM
Paul stated the following: On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, SoloCDM wrote: After trying to print a file as "cat filename | lpr", what caused the following message to be sent to administration? lp printer job "stdin": Your printer job (stdin) was not printed because it was not linked to the

Re: [newbie] basic question : NOW loadup speed

2000-12-31 Per discussione john rigby
Ha folks, I have found the same problem. M72 is far slower than Wdoze to load. Far slower in operation too. John - Original Message - From: "Revenant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 7:50 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] basic question AMDK7-650, HDD

Re: [newbie] Kernel Sanders 2

2000-12-31 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Sunday 31 December 2000 15:13, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the latest Kernel (which is 2.4) as RPM? Julio, You can get this off the Update mirrors. Just use Mandrake Update. I believe it's part of the developers list. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals,

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux - DIE THREAD DIE!

2000-12-31 Per discussione Mark Weaver
DAMN! I even try filtering this stinking thread out and it just won't GO AWAY! Ok...I know this is going to come as a shock to some, but THIS is a LINUX forum and NOT a WINDOWS forum. Can we PLEASE discuss our windows elsewhere? Please?? On Saturday 30 December 2000 10:03, you wrote: HP

Re: [newbie] Gimp xscanimage

2000-12-31 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Joan Tur wrote: Hallo!! I've got a scanner and i load it's module whenever i want to use it. The problem is that i have to scan using xscanimage because under Gimp the option adquire shows only "screen shot" 8-? What else do i have to do? Thanks!! Joancreate a symlink for

Re: [newbie] Gimp xscanimage

2000-12-31 Per discussione Greg Sarsons
Herman Jalink wrote: On Saturday 30 December 2000 15:51, you wrote: Hallo!! I've got a scanner and i load it's module whenever i want to use it. The problem is that i have to scan using xscanimage because under Gimp the option adquire shows only "screen shot" 8-? What else do i

Re: [newbie] Copy from Konsole?

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jody
Hi Jerold, I am learning to compile using the NHF on compiling software. I am getting an error and would like to be able to cut and paste to file or save the output to file, but there are no options that I can find to do this. As usual, any help will be appreciated. I'm so new, I'm not sure

Re: [newbie] install netsaint

2000-12-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
there is an rpm in contribs on any mirror site: Mandrake-devel/contribs/RPMS/netsaint-0.0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm -Chris On Sunday 31 December 2000 15:50, you wrote: Does anyone know how to install netsaint ? i couldn't found the rpm of netsaint in linux mandrake disc if someone know please tell

RE: [newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
This problem has surfaced before with other versions of Netscape. Sorry, but I do not remember what the solution was. Check the Archive for Newbie and Expert you should be able to find the posting there. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From:

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione Herman Christiani
Hi, Are you sure that they will accept only *word* as a acceptable word-processor? For Linux you can install Corel's WordPerfect8, it's also a popular wp for windows, hope this helps. Have a Happy New Year, Herman Goldenpi wrote: I installed 98 after melting my P200MMX in the laptop. I just

Re: [newbie] segmentation fault

2000-12-31 Per discussione Romanator
Kevin Taylor wrote: Hi, I was running netscape 4.76.0x on my LM 7.1 system and netscape crashed. Now when trying to run netscape I get a "segementation fault (core dumped) message. I uninstalled the netscape RPMs and installed the 4.76.3x version from rpmfind.net in the LM dir. Both

Re: [newbie] Newbie dumb question.....whats a kernel, whats an rpm - clarity mark answers only please

2000-12-31 Per discussione Vic
Hello, please disable html emailing, how to do that? Just ask me, I know how in Netscape. The kernel in Linux is kind of like the 'command.com' file in a dos/windows system, it contains the rudimentary code for a running operating system and also contains the 'internal commands' such as 'ls'

Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux

2000-12-31 Per discussione James Mellema
Mark Hillary wrote: Windows 98 doesn't run on 166Mhz, the install program doesn't allow the install. Mark Hillary It runs just fine on the P 133 file server on my home network. Well, not fine its slow and if I run programs on it it crashes, but as a network backup/file server and storage

Re: [newbie] Fast CPU

2000-12-31 Per discussione James Mellema
Mark Hillary wrote: Does anyone here know why a background cann't be desplayed on KDM. Also is there a fix for it. I am useing the KDE that came with the downloaded version of Mandrake 7.2 Cheers to anyon that can help. And happy new year to you all. Mark Hillary Mark, Right click on

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2000-12-31 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey Dennis Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like up to 24 hours? Yeah. Saw last night it took some hours for one. Today, it's been a little less than that, but still taking a long time. Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."

Re: [newbie] My Linux Box

2000-12-31 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
What I tell you. It's monster. How do you kill this? What did that character say in Lost in Space? KILL, something or other, DESTROY! Do you mean IDAK? Instant Destroyer And Killer

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2000-12-31 Per discussione Michael R. Batchelor
Yes, mine have been, but if it gets rid of the dual posts then I supposed it's OK. Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like up to 24 hours?

[newbie] gcc tutorial

2000-12-31 Per discussione Abraham Mandac
At 11:04 AM 12/31/00 -0500, you wrote: Abraham Mandac wrote: Can someone point me to a gcc tutorial [on the internet or a good book]? I find the man pages a bit overwhelming as yet. Thanks, Abe Hello Abe, I found a lot of good books through a good web page at: http:/www.informit.com

[newbie] SMB 2.0.6 printing under Mandrake 7.2 w/ CUPS

2000-12-31 Per discussione jason-snyder
I recently hooked a HP 672C to my Linux box. When the printer is hooked directly to my Linux box it prints ok. When the printer is hooked directly into my Windows ME box, it prints good. When I hook the printer into my Linux box and then try to print over the network from my Windows ME box,

[newbie] USB Mouse Recognition Problems

2000-12-31 Per discussione C . T . K .
I am having trouble getting LM 7.2 to recognize my USB Logitech MouseMan Wheel, unless I plug it into the PS/2 port. Has anyone had success getting their USB mouse recognized? If, please email me. Thanks, CTK Get free email

Re: [newbie] BANG!!! its dead! g g L - DIE THREAD DIE!

2000-12-31 Per discussione KompuKit
I think the GATES GETS LINUX thread needs to diealso. Vic wrote: Its dead dead dead dead dead. -- Registered Linux User:167369 ==http://www.KompuKit.com Kit Goins ICQ# 7110071 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA

2000-12-31 Per discussione Onur
Hello Meph, MI Hey, MI I'm wondering about this subject as well. I've a Diamond Viper MI 770D with 32MB RAM, using the Riva TnT 2[v5] module. Till MI yesterday, I was running some "Other" module, but I'd reset the MI Riva in drakcomf had also installed the glide files from CD. MI Some

Re: [[newbie] install netsaint ]

2000-12-31 Per discussione C . T . K .
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[newbie] Font Ugliness

2000-12-31 Per discussione eryl
Can anyone tell me why, even with XF86 ver 4.x, I STILL have to edit my XF86.config file and invert the 75dpi and 100dpi entries??? Why doesn't X use the 100 dpi fonts by default? What is the purpose of the default at 75dpi I'll bet this is one of the biggest pains for the newbies and the

[Fwd: Re: [newbie] samba conf]

2000-12-31 Per discussione eryl
Re-reading this, I realize my answer was wrong (although the site pointed to will help). Try editing the Windows C:/Windows/hosts.sam file. Put in something like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 192.168.0.2 YourLinuxbox.YourWorkgroup #use the address of your linbox 192.168.0.1

[newbie] VGA changes to in lilo.conf

2000-12-31 Per discussione Jack_D
G'Day and Thanks for reading this.. I recently changed over to Mandrake 7.2 from RH6.2 In RH I was able to change the VGA parameters to allow smaller text on screen for more easier reading. I used the same parameters under Mandrake. It works for the first part of the bootup,

Re: [newbie] Mail delayed

2000-12-31 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Sunday 31 December 2000 07:42 pm, you wrote: Hey Dennis Is anyone else noticing that their posts are delayed quit a long time, like up to 24 hours? Yeah. Saw last night it took some hours for one. Today, it's been a little less than that, but still taking a long time. Meph

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