Re: [newbie-it] Sicurezza password utenti

2001-01-11 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
Il 00:07, gioved 11 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Qualcuno sa dirmi brevemente come funziona il meccanismo delle password di Linux? E' vero che se faccio il login come utente posso leggere il file delle password in /etc ed estrarle tutte, compresa quella di root, con semplici programmini che si

Re: [newbie-it] debug pppd?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Simone Deponti
1=TRUE - Original Message - From: "ioadamo" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:47 PM Subject: Re: [newbie-it] debug pppd?

Re: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione ioadamo
Configurazione di Star Office come desktop in mndk-7.2 .. drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 dic 24 20:28 wmsession.d/ A questo punto e` bastato copiare 01KDE in 03StarOffice NAME=StarOffice ICON= DESC=Star Office Environment EXEC=/usr/bin/soffice SCRIPT: exec

[newbie-it] Urgesi moduli

2001-01-11 Per discussione Germano
A chiunque abbia una mandrake 7.1 con kernel 2.2.15: Sareste cos gentili da inviarmi 3 moduli contenuti nella directory /lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/misc, ve ne sarei immensamente grato (i miei li ho erroneamente sovrascritti con 3 pi vecchi per installare un modem asuscom isdn pci). I moduli

[newbie-it] Multisession

2001-01-11 Per discussione Corrado
Ciao a tutti. E' possibile masterizzare i cd in multisession? Perch io ho attivato l'opzione apposita in gtoaster, per riesco si a scrivere sul cd, ma poi in fase di lettura riesco a "vedere" solo quel che avevo scritto durante la prima sessione... Qualche spiegazione? Grazie. Corrado

[newbie-it] Wine ed Xpm

2001-01-11 Per discussione Stefano Salari
Ciao a tutti, ho un problema con la compilazione di Wine (ver. 20001222). Ho scaricato i sorgenti e li ho installati lanciando lo script ./tools/wineinstall. Tutto ok, pero' poi scopro che alcune cose non girano perche' mi mancano le librerie Xpm-devel. Le installo via rpm e rilancio

R: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione francesco
Ti ringrazio e scusami per la mia rozzezza Francesco - Original Message - From: Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:32 AM Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2 francesco wrote: Per andrea celli, Per

Re: [newbie] Recruitment Notice

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Susan (and guys/gals) May well give it a burl next time round. Only a newbie myself and going thru a steep learning curve hear. Used linux for approx 3 weeks so far, and windows for 9 years. Gettin hold of the full 7.1 ver of mandrake complete with manuals tomorrow (mainly for the manuals to

Re: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Aston I hadn't cosidered that b4 myself, but you certainly have aroused my curiousity as well since I happen to have Ghost as well. And btw, a fellow Aussie. James hi all. i know that for windows machine, i can use norton ghost to do a ghost installation of windows for a large number of

Re: [newbie] XFree86 4.0.1

2001-01-11 Per discussione s
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 09:07 pm, you wrote: Is anyone else besides me having a problem installin XFree 4.0.1 in Mandrake 7.2? I tried installing Xfree 4.0.1 though rpmdrake and everything seemed to install fine..I have an Xfreeconfig-4 file, but when I do a X -version and in KDE I

Re: [newbie] Setting Up Secure Shell

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tim Holmes
I agree with Holly. This took me a good 3 days with trial and error before I got this set up to work. But use her instructions, I think she's point you upon the right path. When you create your key in your .ssh/ directory, it askes you to set a passwd for it. Well it DOES not have to be the

RE: [newbie] Setting up Samba as Passowrd Server for win98

2001-01-11 Per discussione Steve Gulick
Thanks Bill! I have it working now -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill ShirleySent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 10:14 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [newbie] Setting up Samba as Passowrd Server for win98 Look in

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel not running

2001-01-11 Per discussione Po Kwok
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and doesn't run. I don't know if

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-11 Per discussione Christian A Strømmen [Number1/NumeroUno]
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:46, you wrote: it's so damn slow under ms windows its really fast please help me out hehe, you aren't exactly giving us much info here, it's like "I have bought a new computer, but now I can't open the text-editor, what's wrong?" :) -- \ Christian A Strmmen /

Re: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tim Holmes
First I'd like to say, please do not take my response a solution to your problem since I have no idea what I'm talking about. (Which I find most often to be the case! :0)~ But thinking about this, I'd like to think it's possible, just not with Norton Ghost. I don't think it has what's needed

Re: [newbie] Xserver Configuration Problem with Trident 9750 AGP Card

2001-01-11 Per discussione freddy . mena
Hi, i had the same problem (and worse while trying to fix it) with the trident 3D Blade agp 8 mb; i looked at the cd that came with the card and found the VGA\Trident\9880\Linux directory, here there are: a XF86_SVGA file to replace the original that comes with Mandrake, and a readme file

Re: [newbie] Xserver Configuration Problem with Trident 9750 AGP Card

2001-01-11 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Peter, XFree86 is the X-server that comes with Mandrake. Without it, Linux would be a command-line only affair (unless you spent $$$ for a commercial X-server). I had a very similar problem just over a year ago when trying to install Caldera OpenLinux 2.2. It looks as if nothing has changed

Re: [newbie] quick question

2001-01-11 Per discussione Jordan
I loaded Mandrake 7.2 recently and partitioning was automated. Just put in the CD and go. If you want to keep existing partitions it's a different story. "Kelly, Christopher" wrote: Do I need to Fdisk a drive before installing Linux? I can't remember.

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE2.0 themes -- how?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 12:02 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: The instructions for manually installing KDE 2.0 themes are quite confusing. The instructions given as part of the Aquatica theme (install in ~/.kde/share/apps/kstyle This is for a user install conflict with others advising

Re: [newbie] Network solution

2001-01-11 Per discussione Don Munson
Gentlemen: I apologize for the problem since this apparently started with me. This was not an issue of request a read from the list but I have this setting on my machine always on for other issues. As has been mentioned there are settings in the email programs and mine is set to automatically

RE: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
I have actually used Nortons Ghost 6.1 to copy linux partitions from one hard drive to another. With success!! I was sceptical at first, but Nortons is a good product. Use with caution as always. Chris Kelly --- Men are from Earth Women are from Earth Deal with it... -Original Message-

RE: [newbie] Dual processors ??

2001-01-11 Per discussione Liaw, Andy
If the install program sees two CPUs, it will install the SMP kernel. For example, the kernel installed on our dual P3 Xeon box is 2.2.15-4mdksmp (from LM7.1). As mentioned before, only multi-thread apps and apps specifically written for SMP will run faster. Who makes mobo for dual Athalons?

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 12:00 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which would allow me to launch Konqueror as root (with a dialog box asking me for my root password) so I can access my files. On the menu, Applications | File tools | File manager (super user mode) --

Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive

2001-01-11 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Jay wrote: /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=binary 0 0 /dev/hdb2/mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat So I think you should have: /dev/hdb2 /mnt/DOS_hdb2 vfat rw 0 0 If I'm not mistaken, you have to create /mnt/DOS_hdb2 before this will work. I *think* I used "touch

Re: [newbie] Xserver Configuration Problem with Trident 9750 AGP Card

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 12:05 am, BIRKLE Peter wrote: I have just tried to install Mandrake 7.2 and all goes well up until the X Server configuration. I have no idea about your monitor, but that Vcard is weak. During install you're asked if you want XFree-3.3x or XFree-4, and XF-4

Re: [newbie] Genius Netscroll +

2001-01-11 Per discussione s
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 09:32 pm, you wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel not running

2001-01-11 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Francisco, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and doesn't

Re: [newbie] Dual processors ??

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 02:48 pm, abe wrote: if you are running an SMP mandrake system will recompiling the software you use help it to use the SMP capabilities of the machine or not? No, the software has to be written by the developer(s) to take advantage of SMP. I believe a Google

Re: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 10:02 pm, Po Kwok wrote: hi all. i know that for windows machine, i can use norton ghost to do a ghost installation of windows for a large number of computers. i've wondering if this can also be done for linux. if so, where do i go for information. please

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which would allow me to launch Konqueror as root (with a dialog box asking me for my root password) so I can access my files. Right now, the only way I can do this is to su to root in xterm and type konqueror. Surely, KDE

Re: [newbie] Cant mount Windows D drive

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 06:32 pm, Jay wrote: Hi all, I just looked at the Fdisk for my windows D drive hdb2 in linux and it starts at 1275. Could that be my problem? Is it bad for it to be past 1024? I have not changed anything in fdisk. Thanks for helping me every one. I

Re: [newbie] Installing KDE2.0 themes -- how?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
There's something more than just where you place themes happening here. I tried installing Acqua by placing its pixmaps under /usr/share/apps/kstyle/pixmaps and its themerc under /usr/share/apps/kstyle/themes. Then I ran the Themes Manager. It didn't "see" the new theme, so I clicked on the

RE: [newbie] Dual processors ??

2001-01-11 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
I use SMP Linux systems all the time. As D. M. Mike pointed out non multi-threaded applications run no faster, per se... BUT overall they do run faster. In an SMP system the workload is divided between the two processors. System processes, daemons, etc. can be evenly split or automatically

Re: [newbie] New Motherboard

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 07:49 pm, Joseph Red wrote: I'm getting a new motherboard, and I'm planning to possibly put it in my Linux box tonight. It's an Abit BE-6 2, with onboard udma66. I'm not going to be using those at first, I'm just going to stick w/ standard IDE until I get new

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione John W
I had this problem and used the advice I recieved from the helix supportstaff. as root: chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome Also add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.local. This works for gdm I am not sure about kdm but you may try to substitute kdm for gdm and or use gdm. -

Re: [newbie] Lost memory after bios update

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 05:47 pm, ai4a wrote: I have a pc chips m598lmr motherboard. I can't help myself ;, pcchips is the worst of the worst junk If anyone has a copy of the old bios, I could use a copy of it. Or if anyone has any ideas about how to get linux to see the upper 64meg

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione bpremeaux
Try K- Applications- File Tools- File Manager (Super User Mode) Barry :-) On Wed, 10 January 2001, Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which would allow me to launch Konqueror as root (with a dialog box asking me for my root password) so I can access my

Re: [newbie] Genius Netscroll +

2001-01-11 Per discussione Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
s escribi: On Wednesday 10 January 2001 09:32 pm, you wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the

Re: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Po Kwok
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Wednesday 10 January 2001 10:02 pm, Po Kwok wrote: hi all. i know that for windows machine, i can use norton ghost to do a ghost installation of windows for a large number of computers. i've wondering if this can also be done for linux. if so, where do i go for

Re: [newbie] ppp error 15

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Another $.02, we're almost up to a dollar here, when I connect to earthlink my user name in KPPP has to be entered as ELN/denkar . If I tried just denkar it won't connect. For mail login under user name it requires only the denkar, go figure. So if you don't have the ELN/ in front of you

Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 07:16 am, Meph Istopheles wrote: Paul, you're right. My only problem with all this is that having to key in /mnt/whatever is annoying when not necessary. I'm not away of there being any problem making mountpoints off / like /win. That way, you not only save

Re: [newbie] Linux cool keyboard???

2001-01-11 Per discussione poogle
Paul, where are you ? If you are in the UK Linux Emporium have them on their website, they are not split though, John On Wednesday 10 January 2001 18:01, you wrote: On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hi Paul. Sorry, I forgot you're not US based! ;-( I'm not sure if there is a split

[newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Lionel Chan
Greetings, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Tks -- CHAN Kin Poon

[newbie] Is anyone doing VPN with their linux box?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Mark Johnson
Is anyone doing VPN with their linux box? Specifically Linux client to Windows VPN server?

[newbie] Updating a server

2001-01-11 Per discussione Automated Fax System/System de Fax Automatique
I've got an old slackware 6 server running Dhcp, mail, Web and firewall duty here and I want to know if there's a wa to update it to the latest version WITHOUT losing any of the configuration. I didn't build the server so i don't want to screw anything up as it acts asa mail server for about 30

Re: [newbie] setenv / env ?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Onur
Tuesday, January 09, 2001, 2:41:44 AM, you wrote: JRS I installed the Mesa Opengl package and in the README file is proposed the JRS lib path $TOP/lib become the enviroment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Well, when JRS I try the following: JRS # setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH $TOP/lib JRS I

[newbie] xdmcp

2001-01-11 Per discussione iagoba
Hi I want to know where I can download the xdm program with its daemon xdmcp and how to install it in my RH 6.1 thanks. Iagoba

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dave Sherman
I doubt there is such an animal as you are looking for, but you could simply create a bash script to run the appropriate commands for you, then make a desktop icon which would run this script. Dave At 12:00 AM 01/11/2001 -0600, you wrote: Dear friends: Is there a menu item in KDE 2.0 which

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Adrian Smith
quote from the artical: The week before Christmas, CNET News.com editor Todd Volz blasted most of the major commercial distributions, including Mandrakesoft, for shipping bloated product. While most of the bloat comes in the area of developer-oriented features, i.e. mulitple compilers, screen

Re: [newbie] Mouse wheel not running

2001-01-11 Per discussione Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Meph Istopheles escribi: Francisco, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on

[newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.

2001-01-11 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
My brother is using v7.2 of Mandrake, and currently it boots up into KDE. He wants to know how to switch it so that he can boot into Gnome? Thanks! --

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione Traci Collins
Mannequin* wrote: Hi all, I've just downloaded and installed Helix Gnome on my MDK 7.2 system. After the install 'kdm' stopped allowing me to access Gnome at all. (It doesn't show up in the window managers list at all.) How do I go about getting it back on the list so that I can use Gnome

Re: [newbie] Re: Win4Lin - Does it do WinMe?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Traci Collins
With all the gungho WIn4Lin supporters out there I wonder, does anyone know if it supports WinMe or is it exclusively for Win98? -- Traci Collins http://www.rof.net/wp/tcollins/traci.html

[newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types

2001-01-11 Per discussione Traci Collins
I would like to shift to Netscape 6 instead of 4.7x because of its ability to manage multiple e-mail accounts for a single Linux user (under 4.7x I had to keep a separate user account for each e-mail account). My problem is that the scripts which come with RealPlayer8 for mime and plugin support

[newbie] Version Declaration and Realplayer8

2001-01-11 Per discussione Traci Collins
Hi! I have downloaded and installed Realplayer8 and run the mime and plugin scripts that came with it. Things are working very well in Netscape 4.7x but I have a problem with the streaming MP3 at www.live365.com. When I tell live365 that I would like to play their music using Realplayer and then

RE: [newbie] xdmcp

2001-01-11 Per discussione Helsby, James
This is a mandrake group. Try www.rpmfind.net -Original Message- From: iagoba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:52 AM To: Listas-Newbie Subject: [newbie] xdmcp Hi I want to know where I can download the xdm program with its daemon xdmcp and how to install it

[newbie] Problem installing pdksh

2001-01-11 Per discussione Adrian Roe
Hi All, Can anybody help with this one I have installed pdksh 'cos its's required by DB2 for Linux. I extracted the files from the tar file, did ./configure and then "make install". The ksh file got put in /usr/local/bin (is this correct, should be /usr/bin ???), and I added the path to ksh

[newbie] Mandrake Menu - Addition

2001-01-11 Per discussione Neville Cobb
I generally have little complaints about the menuing system as it works great for me. However there is just one little part I'd like mandrake to add in future md updates. WHen you generate an application on the desktop in kDE2 you have the option of running it as a different user. This is really

Re: [newbie] Lost memory after bios update

2001-01-11 Per discussione hellmut
Have you edited the append line in /etc/lilo.conf? I have a pc chips m598lmr motherboard. I can't help myself ;, pcchips is the worst of the worst junk If anyone has a copy of the old bios, I could use a copy of it. Or if anyone has any ideas about how to get linux to see the upper

[newbie] Grub question

2001-01-11 Per discussione Kelly, Christopher
I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So, please forgive my ignorance. How can I edit the Grub menu after it has been installed? I know that the list resides in /boot/grub/menu.lst. How can I edit that file? Thanks y'all, Chris Kelly --- Boy of Destiny King of

Re: [newbie] Visor, jpilot, usb, and Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione Aaron Zuercher
Jim, I have a Visor, which I'm attempting to Sync with Mdk 7.2. Not much luck with the USB. So i bought a serial cradle, and that has wokrked fine. Once I upgrade to 2.4 I'm going to attempt the USB cradel again. Anyhow... about your problem... one thing that is different between the two

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dan LaBine
Just for the record, here's the response I sent to Mr. Volz ; Dear Todd; Interesting article . Was this picaresque novella written to judge the reaction of the general public? Were you attempting to take a survey of Linux enthusiasts, and some bonehead in your marketing department said "Hey

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: Thanks to all of you who responded. Here is what I did: I created an icon on the desktop with the executable reading: "kdesu -c /usr/bin/konqueror" (no quotes) and then selected the konqueror icon from the system list. This automatically brings up a dialogue box that asks me for

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a question dated 12 Dec 2000. Till date I've not gotten any response from Mandrake. Anyone with a similar problem getting help from Mandrake? Well, while I've not actually posted via their site, I've issues with two of my cards (Diamond Viper 770D

RE: [newbie] Xserver Configuration Problem with Trident 9750 AGP Card

2001-01-11 Per discussione BIRKLE Peter
Tom, I will try this and get back to you. Thanks Peter -Original Message- From: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 11 January 2001 11:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xserver Configuration Problem with Trident 9750 AGP Card On Thursday 11

Re:[newbie] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione John W
I had this problem and used the advice I recieved from the helix supportstaff. as root: chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome also add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.local. This works for gdm I am not sure about kdm but you may try to substitute kdm for gdm and or use gdm. -

Re: [newbie] how to do 'ghost' install in linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 10:33 am, Po Kwok wrote: 'info dd' and search the ML archives, this subject has come up before in the past -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay sorry, the "ML archives"? i typed "info dd", and came up with manual that i don't

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 Menu -- Konqueror as root -- Where?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Then if you want to keep it really handy, as when your working in an xwindow on some file or other, you can right click on the tool bar and add a button to access it right clickadd applicationapplicationfiletoolsfilemanager(su mode). : ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try K- Applications-

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-11 Per discussione Prime Force
I had the same problem, with the same type of video card... try these steps (worked for me): 1. Get some more RAM! I bought an extra 64 MB and the speed improved a little 2. Disable non-essential start up services 3. Get the latest Nvidia drivers from their site (AND READ THE README!)

Re: [newbie] ppp error 15

2001-01-11 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 11 January 2001 09:59 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Another $.02, we're almost up to a dollar here, when I connect to earthlink my user name in KPPP has to be entered as ELN/denkar . If I tried just denkar it won't connect. For mail login under user name it requires only the denkar,

[newbie] x-window problem.

2001-01-11 Per discussione Andres
Hi iam a mandrake newbie, and i have the following problem: when i use the x-window, the screen splits in two pieces (one half to the left and one halfo to the right), the left side has no problem, everything is ok, but when i get something (like the mouse cursor, or a window), the rifgt side

[newbie] what's up ?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Claudio Cardenas
I have installed the win98, winserver4 and the linux mandrake7.1, I install it in advanced option (expert) so that it allows me to create a boot disk and to run several O.S. , that is to say I want to leave me the mandrake environment when one installs it in basic option but linux don't load the

Re: [newbie] still working on windows D drive

2001-01-11 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Tom, I'm not aware of there being any problem making mountpoints off / like /win. That way, you not only save yourself a little typing, but have a meaningful shortcut to the actual device (which I think is the whole point). I favor doing this too. I always move my Windoze HDD

Re: [newbie] Sound recorder?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Anthony
You might have sox installed, since I have it installed and it gave me the same error. Try "rpm -q sox" and see if something comes up. Then for the sound problem, are you running any desktop sound things? That could interfere with the grecord. (Mandrake 7.2) Following suggestions, I tried

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Can you please post your question here? cc me in and we'll try to help. I'm not in the support department, but sometimes I can help or put you in touch with the right people. -Chris On Thursday 11 January 2001 10:03, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a

Re: [newbie] ppp error 15

2001-01-11 Per discussione ed tharp
I have no problem connecting, and the dns numbers I have put in are the ones I used in two other (windows) computers for earthlink. the dialup and log-on are fine, just no connections to the net past the computer I am dialing into. - Original Message - From: "Dennis Myers" [EMAIL

[newbie] Kernel panic: No init found

2001-01-11 Per discussione Miodrag Popovic
A month ago I have successfully installed LM 7.2 on my Pentium Celeron 366 MHz having 20 GB disc. I have two Win partitions: C (hda1 - 6 GB) and D (hda5 - 8.5 GB), and three Linux partitions: / (hda6 - 4.5 GB), /boot (hda7 - 16 MB) and swap (hda8 - 125 MB). LILO was chosen for boot and installed

Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.

2001-01-11 Per discussione bpremeaux
If he is using the graphical user login, he can select it or any of the others from there. Barry :-) On Thu, 11 January 2001, "Ronald J. Hall" wrote: My brother is using v7.2 of Mandrake, and currently it boots up into KDE. He wants to know how to switch it so that he can boot into

Re: [newbie] Linux cool keyboard???

2001-01-11 Per discussione Paul
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, where are you ? If you are in the UK Linux Emporium have them on their website, they are not split though, John Hi John, I am in the Netherlands. Too bad they don't have split keyboards, my RSI affliction requires that. Thanks for the tip

Re: [newbie] Passing a Note to Grub

2001-01-11 Per discussione Salane King
edit /boot/grub/menu.lst All you have to do is add at the end of the line which contains vmlinuz it may already have something like vga=788 or hdc=ide-scsi Salane --- Tony Branch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Lilo if you want to pass a note to the kernel that your system has more memory

Re: [newbie] Just a simple question

2001-01-11 Per discussione Robert Beach
Reply to Darklord I'm not sure what you meant by natively or wine but that is quite a list. I thought for sure the software for ultima online said it would work on Mandrake. That's like my favorite game. You don't have to tell me any of your secrets, but was it hard to get baldur's gate

Re: [newbie] Gnome/v7.2 question.

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
When it boots to the login box that wants either the user + password or root + password there is a button that has kde on it click on that button and all of the installed choices including gnome will drop down. Click gnome and pull up a mushroom. Oh, then click "go" sorry my strange sense of

[newbie] Switching back to Xfree86 4.01?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Chris Hall
Hello All, I had Xfree86 4.01 running on my linux mandrake 7.2 machine with an Nvidia Geforce 2. I tried to install the latest drivers and now my system information list that I'm running 3.3.6. Is there a way I can switch back to 4.01 without having to do a reinstall? All help is very much

RE: [newbie] Re: Win4Lin - Does it do WinMe?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
The lastest release, such as that with 7.2, does. Earlier versions do not. They had to overcome the direct access to DOS not being avalible with ME. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of

Re: [newbie] Re: Win4Lin - Does it do WinMe?

2001-01-11 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:09, you wrote: With all the gungho WIn4Lin supporters out there I wonder, does anyone know if it supports WinMe or is it exclusively for Win98? Just Win95/98. http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin/index.php M. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design

[newbie] File Manager Performance Differences

2001-01-11 Per discussione Neville Cobb
When I open the /mandrake/RPM directory on md 7.2 CD1 using Konqueror it takes ages for it to load the list of rpm files whereas if I use either GMC or XWC File Manager the list appears almost instantly. Don't know there would be any difference at all. Nev

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Andrew F. Brown
Dude, first off all welcome to the Linux Mandrake comunity.Secondly, the mailing list is the best place to pose your question. Why? because someopne has probably run accross the same problem before and can help you. So send your problem out to the list and see what haapens. Dru - Original

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-11 Per discussione Anthony Daniell
Hello, I just read that story myself and felt he was a bit hard on linux, but I cut this piece out and think he has a pointinregards to the suse pro ver 7 which I have. When I first installed it it installed 3417 packs and used just over 6.5 gig of my hard drive. Far too many apps for me . Linux

[newbie] a painless transition, please

2001-01-11 Per discussione Vicar In A Tutu
Hail Eris! Eh, me dears, I seem to be in a bit of a fix here. You see, I have made the transition from Dragon Linux 2.2.4 (a clone of Slackware 7.1) to Mandrake 7.1 (a hard decision inspired by the rants of certain irc curmudgeons) both versions, and, much as I like the ease of configuration

Re: [newbie] ppp error 15

2001-01-11 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 11 January 2001 08:30 pm, you wrote: On Thursday 11 January 2001 09:59 am, Dennis Myers wrote: Another $.02, we're almost up to a dollar here, when I connect to earthlink my user name in KPPP has to be entered as ELN/denkar . If I tried just denkar it won't connect. For mail

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
I've heard nothing from them but the auto-responder to let me know they'd got each of the e-mails. So, is MandrakeSoft any better at support than, say, M$? I sent in an e-mail for support and got a response back in about 24 hours. That's cool. Wonder if they'll come up with

Re: [newbie] Helix Gnome and MDK 7.2

2001-01-11 Per discussione Mannequin*
"John W" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I had this problem and used the advice I recieved from the helix supportstaff. as root: chmod +x /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/Gnome also add that command to the bottom of /etc/rc.local. This works for gdm I am not sure about kdm but you may try to substitute

Re: [newbie] xdmcp

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Guys Could also try [EMAIL PROTECTED] (need to register with egroups 1st) which isn't specific to any particular flavour of Linux. James PS Didn't Mandrake originally split from RH but go more for the leading edge techknowlogy wise? This is a mandrake group. Try www.rpmfind.net

[newbie] Another Grub Q

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Guys Just wondering how to make a boot floppy using Grub rather that Lilo. Thanx in advance James

Re: [newbie] xdmcp

2001-01-11 Per discussione iagoba
yeah! perhaps I don't say that I got Mandrake 7.1? "Helsby, James" wrote: This is a mandrake group. Try www.rpmfind.net -Original Message- From: iagoba [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 8:52 AM To: Listas-Newbie Subject: [newbie] xdmcp Hi I

[newbie] Cannot boot up : libsafe error

2001-01-11 Per discussione Lew Teck Kheng
Hi guru : I make a silly mistake yesterday when I commented the /etc/ld.so.preload and now my system cannot boot up. I installed the Mandrake 7.2 (with high security level) on a Compaq ML370 machine. I have try to mount the root disk (which is a 18GB Ultra SCSI disk) but failed. I have try

Re: [newbie] Grub question

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Kelly Any of the text editors will do the job, so long as you're signed in as root. If you pay attention to the order of the menu items during boot up (just hit an arrow key to stop the count down if need) you'll find them in the same order in the file which should give you an idea of the

[newbie] Camera Q

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Guys I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of how I might get my digital camera (USB model) made by Playworks (www.playworks.com) for which I only know of a win98 driverto work under Linux? My system currently dual boots between win95b and LM 7.2. Can't for the life of me get win98 or win

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Penndragon
Hi Guys, Not trying to either defend nor bash them, but has anyone considered the number of requests for help they likely get each day? It does take time to get through them. Getting over 1,000 emails a day myself (ok, so I'm on about 40 lists of various types) and it does take time to get

[newbie] Mouse wheel not running

2001-01-11 Per discussione falcaraz
Hello again; My home computer has a Genius NetScroll+ mouse. Mandrake 7.2 install my mouse as a generic PS2 and the wheel just runs as a third button. If I select the Genius NetScroll then the pointer stop on the top of the screen and doesn't run. I don't know if the problem is because my

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