[newbie-it] Ricompilazione Kernel Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-13 Per discussione Stefano Pessini
Ho installato Mandrake 7.2 Sto tentando di ricompilare il Kernel, ma alla fine del processo mi da questo errore: drivers/sound/sounddrv.o: In function `start_cards': drivers/sound/sounddrv.o(.text+0x256c): undefined reference to `sound_preinit_lowlevel_drivers'

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione ioadamo
Il 09:14, sabato 13 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Anche io vorrei riuscire ad installare star office ma i comandi che impartisco dove li devo impartire? per esempio: se io entro come root, e vorrei installare un programma, su quale cartella devo andare?...sulla cartella del programma..ma io

[newbie-it] Mi presento!

2001-01-13 Per discussione Wintozsucks
Salve a tutti! Sono un nuovo arrivato. Ho appena instalato Linux Mandrake 7.2 su un vecchio PC 166, dopo aver tentato di installare la versione per Power Mac su un G4 (senza successo, per via di alcune schede non identificate che creavano un 'kernel panic' all'avvio - spero vada meglio con la

[newbie-it] kernel 2.4, installazione?

2001-01-13 Per discussione Lele Gardelli
Ho scaricato il kernel 2.4, ma ora, prima di fare qualche grosso pasticcio vorrei qualche dritta per sostituirlo al kernel esistente. Come posso fare? Grazie per l'eventuale aiuto

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione francesco
Ti ringrazio Fede ora provo e poi ti dico... - Original Message - From: ioadamo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 6:37 PM Subject: Re: R: [newbie-it] star office come desktop in mndk-7.2 Il 09:14, sabato 13 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Anche io

[newbie] Installing a printer on 7.1

2001-01-13 Per discussione Victor Richardson
I've got an Epson Color 850 I want to install on my Mandrake 7.1 system, but I ran into all kinds of dependency problems when trying ot install Kups 0.9-1, Cups 1.1.5-3, Cups-common, and Cups-drivers. Although, I was able to install the Red Hat rpms for Ghostscript 6.50-2 and Ghostscript fonts

RE: [newbie] modem..kernel Hsp56 micromodem

2001-01-13 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
This is a WinModem, created specifically to be run with Windows. There is an attempt to get WinModems to run with Linux, but you are much better off getting rid of your modem and getting a "real" one... -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf

Re: [newbie] free VMWARE

2001-01-13 Per discussione Paul
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Emilio Correa wrote: VMware is a commercial product... Paul Hi, thanks for all whose answer my questions. I could fix my problem with kppp. No I wonder if exist a free version of VMWare and where I can download it and where to find information abut the free soft. Thanks on

RE: [newbie] booting disaster

2001-01-13 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
Boot your installation CD and type rescue at the prompt. Charles Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Vicar In A Tutu Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 12:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie]

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes...thank you MandrakeSoft. I'm in 100% agreement there with Dennis. I love what you're doing with this Distro. Absotlutely the best. :) Even if it does make me nuts sometimes. Just means I have more to learn. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-13 Per discussione Robert Wyatt
Isn't glide for 3dfx based video cards ? Meph Istopheles wrote: Hey, Don't really wanna "horn" in, but I've a simillar situation with my Diamond Viper 770D (it's got the tnt2 chip). With XFree4.01 it's almost dead. I'd installed the glide module some games picked up, but (I suppose

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Come now...taking over the world PC market isn't going to happen over night. It has to progress normally one PC and one user at a time. In my opinion what really needs to happen is that all the different distros and window managers need to quell "aLL" of the infighting and fussing that is going

Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 12 January 2001 08:21 pm, bascule wrote: can someone tell me exactly what files menu editor edits I don't really know, but take a look at /home/user/.menu/menu Somewhere I saw a mini-howto on how to manually edit that file to add/ subtract menu items, but I don't remember where.

Re: [newbie] modem..kernel Hsp56 micromodem

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 12 January 2001 08:08 pm, german torres wrote: some1 know what to do with my problem, i just get the right linux driver 4 my modem and now ther is a problem because of im using lnx4win and the driv3er said that it was 4 kernel 2.2.5 and ln4win is 2.2.17k im new at linux and i would

Re: [newbie] Nutzo-insane RPM software

2001-01-13 Per discussione Pascal Poirier
OK, I apologize for funnin with ya. But Michael's right, you'd only get that error with a current cooker, or an incompatible RH7 package. Please post the rpm's full name that you're tryin to install. It's possible to install cooker/RH7 rpm's, but you have to be very careful as to

Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work

2001-01-13 Per discussione civileme
On Saturday 13 January 2001 03:21, you wrote: can someone tell me exactly what files menu editor edits because on my system it does not edit those files under ~/.kde/share/applnk/i know this because if i use the menueditor to change the command for kpackage to include kdesu at the

[newbie] Dual PIII 600 7.2 install went well

2001-01-13 Per discussione Bob Currey
Sometimes things just work. 7.2 Mandrake went on easier (much) than Win/98. Quite a pleasant surprise. I haven't tried the modems, yet, but all the basic stuff went in without a hitch, excepting my 640 x 480 Zenith Flatscreen, which the install code didn't like in combo with my 3D Blaster

[newbie] system hangs at LMK 7.2 installation

2001-01-13 Per discussione c-3
After problems installing Mandrake 7.0 (mouse didn't work) I've got LMK 7.2 and now I have an even worser problem: After booting from CD and loading the kernel, the system hangs with the message 'starting please wait'. I've already tried to boot from diskette and also using text-

Re: [newbie] Earthlink and CHAP and PAP

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Friday 12 January 2001 09:28 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Strange. I've been logging on to Earthlink for four years using PAP. But Tom swears by CHAP. Well, I don't swear by, at it maybe ;) Here's how I got the correct Earthlink info before their Windoze CD came. I went over to a

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
yes, and not to mention that is what this list is all about. by the way...I think the reply-to us broken on here. -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they end up being worthless," "Sharing is what makes them powerful." Linus Torvalds On Thu,

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply the change. that's all

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
I've been trying for a few weeks now to do the same thing at work on my workstation but I've been unsuccessful so far. Is there a problem doing this with the Mdk 7.2 kernel that it requires kernel 2.4 to be able to sync with the Visor? -- Mark "If you don't share your concepts and ideals, they

[newbie] Linux Mandrake update disk

2001-01-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
Hi folks, I received in the mail a disk from MandrakeSoft for updates to KDE as well as some other patches. When I registered the boxed set of LM Powerpack Deluxe (the McMillan set) I checked a box indicating I would like the update when available. Well, three weeks later here it is and with

Re: [newbie] Nutzo-insane RPM software

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:47 am, Pascal Poirier wrote: Has anyone one managed to find a somewhat easy way to upgrade the system. There are so many interdependencies for the new kernel its a mess... I might try the above but would perfer to know if it will break the system before I do

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione Greg Sarsons
Ah .. the good old days but alas switchdesk doesn't come with 7.2 Greg Mark Weaver wrote: You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just

[newbie] xf86config fails due to : warning server.......

2001-01-13 Per discussione Quaylar
hi all ! I am having troubles to setup my system with xf86config. The reason why i ran xf86config was my monitor shutting down to standby mode every 5 seconds when working in X. Upon being prompted to choose my video card from the list i didnt get the list but following error : Warning SERVER

Re: [newbie] Kodak cameras

2001-01-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 13 January 2001 01:29 am, you wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2001 04:29, you wrote: Has anyone set up a Kodak DC3400 to work in gphoto or whatever in linux. Or is there a site set up to check on drivers for digital cameras. Kodak support is ok but this camera isn't listed in

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Mark Weaver wrote: You can make Gnome the default X mandager by setting it as such with Switchdesk. Once you're logged in and X is running it's on the menu somewhere, but I've always called it from a terminal. Just type in Switchesk, and then choose Gnome from the menu and tell it to apply

[newbie] BIND File Missing

2001-01-13 Per discussione SoloCDM
My dnskeygen file is missing in the following RPM: bind-8.2.2P5-1mdk.i586.rpm Note: When you reply to this message, please include the mailing list/newsgroup address in Cc: and my email address in To:. * Signed, SoloCDM

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

2001-01-13 Per discussione Mark Weaver
maybe so, but I'd imagine you've still got your 7.1 disks around as I do and it wouldn't take but a few minutes to install the switchdesk package from the CD to the system. On Saturday 13 January 2001 09:55 am, you wrote: Ah .. the good old days but alas switchdesk doesn't come with 7.2

Re: [newbie] problem with nvidia tnt2 m64

2001-01-13 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
It's been a while since I'd read the docs, but I'm sure I'd installed it on the recommendation set there. Evidently, it was necessary in RH 6.0 for me to play the one accelerated game I could even compile -- Quake II. It also had a positive effect in lm7.2, as I can now get acceleration in a

[newbie] Tomcat Apache (Suggestions Please)

2001-01-13 Per discussione Linux Tests
This question is in regards to designing the best system for operating Tomcat and Apache on an LM 7.2 box. The knowns: First, the peak number of users is 2000 users in one night. Second, the hardware needs to be an Athlon system. Third, the hard drive must be a SCSI 40 GB. HOW would you

Re: [newbie] Tomcat Apache (Suggestions Please)

2001-01-13 Per discussione Dan LaBine
I have an Athlon 900Mhz, 768Mb Ram, Asus A7V, but IDE Drives. Absolutely no Problems. Have fun, Good Luck. Do yourself a favor, though. Before installing, disable your Plug 'n' Pray in the BIOS. See if you can successfully disable ACPI as well. Install should go better. Dan - Original

[newbie] XFree86

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tomas Hurtig
Hello, I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpwps=./XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk.i586 The thing is I can not find

[newbie] LM 7.2 as a Server

2001-01-13 Per discussione Andrew F. Brown
This semester as a project for a class i am hosting a ebsite on my own person;a server. I would like to here from some people who run web and ftp servers on LM systems about any problems they have encountered, advice they have to give, etc. about using Linux Mandrake as a server. How stable it

Re: [newbie] XFree86

2001-01-13 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Tomas Hurtig wrote: Hello, I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpw ps=./XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk.i586 The

Re: [newbie] Philips Acoustic Edge Sound Card

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 02:47 pm, Wilson wrote: Does anybody know if this sound card works in Mandrake 7.2. I'm getting ready to purchase a new sound card and have heard good things about this one. If not guess I'll get the Soundblaster Live. Well, ya just haft'a ask yourself ...

[newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione german torres
im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 06:40 pm, german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] menu editor changes don't work

2001-01-13 Per discussione bascule
thanks civileme, though guess this stills begs the question of what files menudrake is editing as my example of kpackage still holds, in menudrake the options to the command 'kpackage' consist of '-u' and thats it, in .kde/share/applnk/ they are '-caption and a few others', not the same! i

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione eryl
german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ USR V-everything external. Expensive,

Re: [newbie] XFree86

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 05:32 pm, Tomas Hurtig wrote: I have found an RPM package that I need but I do not know where I can download it, the package that I need is called: XFree86-devel-4.0.1-26mdk and I found it at: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/72/index.php3?cd=installpwps=./XFre

[newbie] hdd: packet command error

2001-01-13 Per discussione Jon Dowd
I'm trying to use an older CD-ROM drive, but am getting error messages at startup. I have a dual boot machine and the CD-ROM drive works ok under Windows. I have included the output of dmesg. Thanks, Jon Dowd Linux version

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:51 am, you wrote: On Saturday 13 January 2001 06:40 pm, german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Do the research like Tom shows above so that you have a good

[newbie] floppy permissions query

2001-01-13 Per discussione Jordan
Icon on desktop as per default on installation, but access not permitted. Right click to Properties and ticking (already seemed correct) doesn't fix.

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 08:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday 12 January 2001 03:36 pm, Vic wrote: I would like to know why every time I attempt to install something worthless RPM says: "only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM" what bullsh** is this?

Re: [newbie] VMware

2001-01-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Do you have the latest version of VMware? Earlier versions will not work in Mandrake 7.2. On Sat, 13 Jan 2001 02:57, James Hallam wrote: hi all, i am trying to get VMware to run on Mandrake 7.2 the install goes ok, but when i run the config script vmware-config.pl it throws back an error

Re: [newbie] hdd: packet command error

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 07:33 pm, Jon Dowd wrote: I'm trying to use an older CD-ROM drive, but am getting error messages at startup. I have a dual boot machine and the CD-ROM drive works ok under Windows. I have included the output of dmesg. == hdd: lost interrupt == hdc:hdc: irq

[newbie] What Files must I edit to add a new window manager to the kdm login window

2001-01-13 Per discussione msh
I've downloaded the latest windowmaker and installed in /usr/local. I used the kde control center - system - login manager to add a new entry to the menu of window manager choices offered at login time. Invoking this menu item doesn't work. (I get the icewm instead -- I think). Under MDK 7.1

Re: [newbie] Kmenu

2001-01-13 Per discussione Dan LaBine
I have the exact same problem and symptoms. If you get a reply I'd like to hear about it. Thanks in Advance. Dan - Original Message - From: "KompuKit" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Kmenu HELP-please !! I need

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione mcdowell
How about external USB modems? On 13 Jan 2001, at 17:30, eryl wrote: german torres wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) thanx __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo!

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Saturday 13 January 2001 11:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about external USB modems? Some are win-modems. You can find out here http://www.kcdata.com/~gromitkc/winmodem.html -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione Erylon Hines
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about external USB modems? Not supported yet--and word is that many of these are actually Winmodems, so they probably won't (and shouldn't) be. How about it, anyone on the list hear of a USB modem that will actually work with linux? As far as USB goes, my

Re: [newbie] =ModeM-

2001-01-13 Per discussione L. H. LOO
At 13-01-2001 -0800, you wrote: im just going to buy a modem i would like to hear some recommendations.:) FYI I am using external 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K FaxModem with Linux-Mandrake 7.1.The modem works; also 'cured' my Bios port IO conflict at 2f8 : com2 aka /dev/ttyS1.

[newbie] acrobat reader install

2001-01-13 Per discussione Kenneth Legg
While trying to install acrobat reader 4.0 on Linux Mandrake 7 under KDE 2 I got this message. At this point I'm at a lose as to what to do next. The text below is copied form my terminal window. To accept the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "accept". To decline the terms and

[newbie] sound card

2001-01-13 Per discussione cstoh
Does anyone have a Mandrake Linux driver for my sound card? In Windows it works fine and the driver is called ESS Allegro-1 Device Manager Thanks in advance

[newbie] acrobat install

2001-01-13 Per discussione Kenneth Legg
While trying to install acrobat reader 4.0 on Linux Mandrake 7 under KDE 2 I got this message. At this point I'm at a lose as to what to do next. The text below is copied form my terminal window. To accept the terms and conditions of this agreement enter "accept". To decline the terms and

[newbie] mandrake boot problem

2001-01-13 Per discussione Joel Fitzgerald
Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on. I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no problems the instalation

Re: [newbie] gcc compiler - no such file ...

2001-01-13 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Wednesday 10 January 2001 15:20, you wrote: Hi all, I have installed some programs which use X11 and a compilation with gcc, I know, uses the option -lX11 to compiler look for libX11.so, which is in the /usr/include directory! OK! Actually, the libX11.so won't be in /usr/include, but in

[newbie] user icon and password at login..

2001-01-13 Per discussione jiten
i just installed LM 7.2. pls tell me how to solve following problems. 1. i don't want the icon of user to be displayed at login screen. how do i change this default setting. 2. when i enter the password it shows me the stars whereas i want nothing to be displayed at login screen thankx in

Re: [newbie] MP# encoder?

2001-01-13 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Monday 08 January 2001 19:06, I previously wrote: Hmm. Last time I tried that one it was hard coded to use a different glibc than the one I had. I was running Redhat 6.0 (more or less) at that time. I will give it another try with Mandrake 7.2. OK, reinstalled the Music Match software.

Re: [newbie] Netscape 6 and Mime Types

2001-01-13 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Thursday 11 January 2001 11:18, you wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] mandrake boot problem

2001-01-13 Per discussione eryl
Joel Fitzgerald wrote: Hi All, I've been in the computer game a long time but new to linux... I just got an old compaq 6000 PC, 200mhz Pentium Pro, with a 6gig IDE Maxtor HDD, IDE cdrom, Matrox MGA video card. Blank HDD to install linux on. I installed mandrake a few days ago fine, no