Re: [newbie-it] I: configurazione Asuscom isdnlink TA

2001-01-21 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 19:40, sabato 20 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: - Original Message - From: Yasu To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 3:17 PM Subject: configurazione Asuscom isdnlink TA Ciao a tutti. Ho appena installato la Mandrake 7.2. Durante l'installazione tutto ok, unico

Re: [newbie-it] I: configurazione Asuscom isdnlink TA

2001-01-21 Per discussione Fiscarelli Paolo
Ciao, Anch'io posseggo un Asuscom isdnlink ta. Ho riscontrato i tuoi stessi problemi nella configurazione del modem (si fa per dire , visto che il collegamento e' isdn e pertatnto ne modula ne demodula) . Il problema si risolve cambiando i settaggi dei comandi ATA dalla proprieta' del modem nel

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-21 Per discussione Alberto Zanoni
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:41:49 +0100 francesco maria landolfi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Qualcuno in questa lista e' in grado di vedere i dvd in linux? Io li vedo con Xine, un ottimo programma che puoi trovare su xine.sourceforge.net Non ci sono le funzioni avanzate tipo sottotitoli,

[newbie-it] configurazione Asuscom isdnlink TA

2001-01-21 Per discussione caterina
Ciao, anche io ho un Asuscom isdnlink ta, ma ancora non sono riuscita a connettermi con suddetto modem. Ho letto la risposta di Fiscarelli Paolo a Micci Daniele, ma non ho capito come fare per cambiare i settaggi. Per favore puoi aiutarmi? io vado su kppp impostazioni poi a dispositivo modem

[newbie-it] Mandrake 7.2 e debug pppd?

2001-01-21 Per discussione ioadamo
Ciao a tutti E' gi da un p di tempo che non riesco a risolvere il problema del mio errore di mancata connessione con kppp a causa del mancato debug del pppd (mi da uno strano errore 16). Avevo gi settato ATX4 ma la storia non cambiava pppdTimeout=120 .. e ho messo 120 trovato in pi

Re: [newbie-it] Suoni in Gnome

2001-01-21 Per discussione skywalker
da root devi rendere accesibili i device audio,mixer, e dsp dopo di che alza i volumi del mixer al massimo! Dici di modificare i permessi? In KDE, per, i suoni funzionano anche come utente... Gi ma ad esempio in debian questo non vero per sentire i suoni come utente ho dovuto

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-21 Per discussione Francesco M.Landolfi
Esiste per un plugin chiamato decss...;-))) Ciao :))) che e' quello che non riesco proprio ad installare qualche dritta? -- Francesco M. Landolfi [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie-it] stampante CANON BJC 5100

2001-01-21 Per discussione Marco
Salve a tutti. Qualcuno saprebbe dirmi se possibile configurare la stampante CANON BJC 5100 per Mandrake 7.1? L'autodetect me la rileva, ma poi non risponde a nessun tipo di comando. grazie

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:14:50 +0100 "Francesco M.Landolfi" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Esiste per un plugin chiamato decss...;-))) Ciao :))) che e' quello che non riesco proprio ad installare qualche dritta? Beh cos' che non riesci a fare? Se parliamo della stessa cosa, cio

[newbie-it] Crash in File Manager (Konqueror)

2001-01-21 Per discussione pacmo
Ho aggiornato la Mandrake 7.1 con la 7.2 nessun problema, tranne il fatto che quando lancio File manager mi dà errore di crash con una bella finestra di Conqueror. E' capitato a qualcun altro ? Come si può fare a sistemare ? Grazie Pier Antonio

Re: [newbie-it] DVD II

2001-01-21 Per discussione Alberto Zanoni
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:51:44 +0100 Alberto Zanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho provato a scaricare xine (rpm per 686), ma purtroppo (come molte altre cose, ma e' possibile che nulla vada al primo colpo ?) non funziona: in particolare, se lo lancio digitando semplicemente xine

Re: [newbie-it] stampante CANON BJC 5100

2001-01-21 Per discussione Francesco Speranza
purtroppo credo che non ci sia nulla da fare ... se vai su list printer del sito di Mandrake la 5100 risulta fra quelle non funzionanti ... probabilmente a causa di un software proprietario della Canon a menocche' questa non rilasci un software specifico. - Original Message - From:

[newbie-it] I: I: ATT.NE NEW VIRUS !!!

2001-01-21 Per discussione Giulio
- Original Message - From: Francesca Diosono [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 9:03 AM Subject: Re: I: ATT.NE "NEW VIRUS" !!! -Messaggio originale- Da: Battaglini Paola [EMAIL PROTECTED] A:

Re: [newbie-it] Ancora sulla RAM e la partizione di SWAP

2001-01-21 Per discussione Stefano Quaranta
Linux usa la partizone di swap in assenza di memoria per l'esecuzione di programmi per cui la sua dimensione dovrebbe dipendere dall'utilizzo che fai del computer. In ogni caso anche se possiedi molta memoria RAM la tua partizione swap non dovrebbe superare 127 MB, poich linux non gestisce i MB

Re: [newbie-it] cdrom,masterizzatore,floppy

2001-01-21 Per discussione Stefano Quaranta
Non ne so nulla ma la mia fstab cosi': ... /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 Guarda il manuale per i parametri che ti servono... (non un

Re: [newbie-it] Ancora sulla RAM e la partizione di SWAP

2001-01-21 Per discussione Fabio Coatti
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 06:11:45PM +0100, Stefano Quaranta wrote: Linux usa la partizone di swap in assenza di memoria per l'esecuzione di programmi per cui la sua dimensione dovrebbe dipendere dall'utilizzo che fai del computer. In ogni caso anche se possiedi molta memoria RAM la tua

Re: [newbie-it] DVD

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sebastiano Cordiano
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:51:44 +0100 Alberto Zanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho provato a scaricare xine (rpm per 686), ma purtroppo (come molte altre cose, ma e' possibile che nulla vada al primo colpo ?) non funziona: in particolare, se lo lancio digitando semplicemente xine ottengo

Re: [newbie-it] Crash in File Manager (Konqueror)

2001-01-21 Per discussione tommywaits
Il 17:07, domenica 21 gennaio 2001, scrivesti: Ho aggiornato la Mandrake 7.1 con la 7.2 nessun problema, tranne il fatto che quando lancio File manager mi d errore di crash con una bella finestra di Conqueror. E' capitato a qualcun altro ? Come si pu fare a sistemare ? Grazie Pier Antonio

Re: [newbie] How do you create shortcuts or links to applications inEnlightenment??

2001-01-21 Per discussione Jesse C. Chang
Romanator wrote: When I mean't by shortcuts(sorry for the Windose terminology), I was referring to links on the virtual desktop. I would like to open and/or point to a specific application. Again, you have to launch something like GMC or KFM, which will put shortcut icons on the desktop.

RE: [newbie] Internet connection Sharing

2001-01-21 Per discussione Chris Drury
True, but I had incredible trouble setting up through KDE. I tried 3 times (with clean installs all three times) to share out my connection through KDE, but the Linux computer would lock up and I'd have to reboot X. I finally got fed up and was playing with Gnome, and voila!, Internet

[newbie] menu system problem

2001-01-21 Per discussione KompuKit
Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu... there's 4 entries of each app... I re-installed

RE: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-21 Per discussione Chris Drury
Amen brother! As an American who has lived overseas for about 8 years, I think it should be mandatory for all Americans to live outside of the U.S. for a minimum of 1 year. I feel then Americans will appreciate what they have a little more and have an understanding of another culture. Then

[newbie] usb...Altoine Baker's response

2001-01-21 Per discussione gauin_36
Altoine, I did what u said and here are the results version: 2.2.15 (7.1 for windows) soundcard: soundblaster live (soundcore emu10k1) supermount (autoclean) I hope this will help

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Australia has a similar situation to that of Europe. While we are a majority Anglo-Saxon country, we have very large ethnic groups from all over the world (particularly Greek, Italian, German and Asian). We are not near any other Anglo-Saxon nations (New Zealand doesn't count), yet we are

Re: [newbie] Feature suggestion

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Apt partly solves this problem. Some distros (like Conectiva) have already managed to meld RPM and Apt (originally designed for Debian DEB packages). Perhaps Mandrake should do this? On Sat, 20 Jan 2001 12:39, Digital Wokan wrote: Vic, it sounds like what you're looking for is a solution to

Re: [newbie] Switchdesk Missing in MDK7.2

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
Unfortunately, there is no switchdesk with Mandrake 7.2. It's sad but true :-( On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 11:42, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason I cannot find switchdesk with Linux Mandrake 7.2. Can some one point me in the right direction for the correct rpm. Can I use the rpm

Re: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel

2001-01-21 Per discussione Ribbo
On Sat, 20 Jan 2001, Tom Brinkman wrote: It depends. Specially if like me, you have ReiserFS. i gave up reiserfs, i know it fast and saving hardisk spaces but i got too many error on it, maybe i failed on something i dont know (2.2.17+reiserfs-3.6.24-patch) I prefer Mandrake kernels

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
This has just given me an idea. Instead of just having some preset installation configurations like "Workstation", "Development and "Server", we could have get of checkboxes, with each option representing a function (i.e. not a programme). That way, we can mix and match functions (i.e. be able

[newbie] XFree86 4.0.2

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
I am currently using XFree86 4.0.1, which I have had no trouble with whatsoever. Is there any reason why I should upgrade to the new version 4.0.2? I do not need anti-aliased text and my video card (Matrox Millennium II) is already well supported in 4.0.1. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. Your

[newbie] Setting a mail server

2001-01-21 Per discussione Mazen
Hi all, I am planning to use my linux machine as a mail server. Does any one know a good site explains how to configure it? Thanks Mazen __ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

SV: [newbie] 2.4 Kernel

2001-01-21 Per discussione Blomquist, Niklas
I have test to install the new kernel with the 2.4.5-5mdkrypto rpm, but I've got error: error: failed dependencies: kernel = 2.3 conflicts with kdeaddutils-2.0-3.mdk Any suggestions? /Nik -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Tom Brinkman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 21

[newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......

2001-01-21 Per discussione Quaylar
hiho... as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a linux and a win machine through thin ethernet. up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to ping each other although everything was set right on both sides.. now i found a posting on

RE: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......

2001-01-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Normally this occurs because the BIOS is allocating some resource to another device during boot up, that the card wants to use. When Windows takes over it re-inits PCI PNP devices according to it's own internal configuration tables. Thus when you get to Linux after a Windows boot, Linux

RE: [newbie] Configuring network

2001-01-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
2. I still cannot interconnect my NT box with Linux PC. I edited smb.conf file to add shares, setup security = USER etc. (like in the Reference Manual). I can see the Linux host in my workgroup, but every time I try to access it I get an error message "The network path not found". Also, how to

[newbie] RPM error

2001-01-21 Per discussione David
I downloaded the mandrake kernel4.0 but when i tried to install it i got "only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM" as an error... have i downloaded the wrong version or is something else wrong ??

Re: [newbie] Partitions and drive letters

2001-01-21 Per discussione civileme
On Friday 19 January 2001 18:09, you wrote: Thanks for the response, Fred; I'm glad to hear that Windows won't see those Linux partitions. From the Linux-Mandrake web site tutorial on partitioning, I read that there's a partitioning option called "Use free space on the Windows Partition"

RE: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......

2001-01-21 Per discussione Quaylar
At 08:38 21.01.2001 -0500, you wrote: Normally this occurs because the BIOS is allocating some resource to another device during boot up, that the card wants to use. When Windows takes over it re-inits PCI PNP devices according to it's own internal configuration tables. Thus when you get to

Re: [newbie] RPM error

2001-01-21 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 21 January 2001 07:47 am, David wrote: I downloaded the mandrake kernel4.0 but when i tried to install it i got "only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM" as an error... have i downloaded the wrong version or is something else wrong ?? What version

Re: [newbie] win-unix lan not working any more ;(

2001-01-21 Per discussione civileme
On Saturday 20 January 2001 12:43, you wrote: hi again. it seems that something is going really wrong with my little win-unix lan.yesterday it worked.today i powered up and it didnt work any more. i issued a ifdown eth0 and then a ifup eth0 and got : SIOCADDRT: network

RE: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
Yes, I like it your way. The main idea was to make it easy to get a GOOD install from the get go with the capabilities needed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 4:41 AM To: [EMAIL

[newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb. No, it can't be slow!!! Without running X its horribly slow. With X, its

RE: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......

2001-01-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Weird. There is no hardware reason for this. I can only speculate that somehow the Windows ethernet interfaces are getting configuration information from the Linux box, which in turn is erroneous. This would only happen with Windows set to utilize DHCP... but in this case this doesn't make any

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione civileme
On Sunday 21 January 2001 16:27, you wrote: It started yesterday, after there was a power failure. Its a dual PIII - 600 with 1/2 gb SDRAM and dual UW SCSI with dual UW 5.4 ms Barracuda drives. The video is a Creative Labs Savage4 with 32 mb. No, it can't be slow!!! Without

[newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Emiliano Ogando
How can i install ppp Please an easy way... Thank...

[newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione Emiliano Ogando
My PC is a PIII 550 with 64MB ram and I am running Mandrake 7.2 I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner with a SCSI... How can installed ???

[newbie] BitchX

2001-01-21 Per discussione Emiliano Ogando
Hey... I have installed BitchX, but I dont know how to run it... I cant find where is it...

[newbie] Pegasus driver with dlink usb ethernet

2001-01-21 Per discussione Wilson
I need help getting the pegasus driver to work with my dlink usb ethernet. I can get it to load and it shows in my router but I can't seem to get networking to use it. What do I need to do about this message: # modprobe -c pegasus Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than

[newbie] Unable to see cdrom

2001-01-21 Per discussione Mike Baker
I installed version 7.2 from cdrom. It is an ide reader only. /etc/fstab includes the line:- /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 I am trying to use the install cd because it is requested by DrakConf when I am trying to install an extra ethernet card, however it fails

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner with a SCSI... Man, a few months ago I was looking all over for one of those, but the scsi version was nowhere to be found except on e-bay, I missed out on them. How can installed ??? Anyway, at the time I was looking for one, I was running RedHat 6.0.

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione Donald Hinds
I've had that happen when I couldn't do a clean re-boot. Once it comes up enough to [ctrl][alt][f2] then [ctrl][alt][del] to shut down re-boot normally everything is OK. I wish I knew what causes it so I could fix it. Or better, how can I boot into the 'user' screen, where you pick a user

Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom

2001-01-21 Per discussione Donald Hinds
If it is a R/RW CDROM then try /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/cdrom in fstab, but leave the /mnt/cdrom alone Don html I installed version 7.2 from cdrom. br It is an ide reader only. br /etc/fstab includes the line:- br x-tab/x-tab/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount

[newbie] lilo config problems

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sean Kenny
Here's my lilo.conf file and below is the problem I'm having boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 append=" hdb=ide-scsi" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz

[newbie] lilo config problems

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sean Kenny
Here's my lilo.conf file and below is the problem I'm having boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/uk.klt lba32 prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda7 append=" hdb=ide-scsi"

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione Seb Bermingham
does anyone know how to get a Scanmaker e3 plus to work in LM 7.2 ? It's parralllel - Original Message - From: "Meph Istopheles" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 11:14 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Scanner I have a UMAX Astra 1220S scanner with a

Re: [newbie] I want MicroEMACS

2001-01-21 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Thursday 18 January 2001 12:35, you wrote: Hi all, I've been using MicroEMACS to do all my text editing in both Windows and Linux for many years, and I expect I will for the rest of my natural life (barring the advent of I just did a query on www.freshmeat.net for 'microemacs' and it

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Seb, does anyone know how to get a Scanmaker e3 plus to work in LM 7.2 ? It's parralllel Have you tried first, DrakeConf? I've never heard of this manufacturer, but if it's there, you're set. Second would be to check the Linux /or sane hardware compatibility docs. Like the last

Re: [newbie] Mandrakesoft CEO defends Linux

2001-01-21 Per discussione James Mellema
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: This has just given me an idea. Instead of just having some preset installation configurations like "Workstation", "Development and "Server", we could have get of checkboxes, with each option representing a function (i.e. not a programme). That way, we can mix and

[newbie] menu system problem

2001-01-21 Per discussione KompuKit
Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu... there's 4 entries of each app... I re-installed

[newbie] test

2001-01-21 Per discussione Sean Kenny
Apolgies test newbie list - I've posted acouple of times from kmail and they haven't appeared, although other stuff seems to get through.

Re: [newbie] Is the Korn shell freeware?

2001-01-21 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 04:31, you wrote: clear in my query. What is a "Korn" shell? As in, what is this particular shell program like and what are it's attributes? How does it perform and behave and stack up against Konsole, xterm, and so on? Korn is (I think) a variant of the original

Re: [newbie] ISA PnP modem won't respond

2001-01-21 Per discussione David E. Fox
On Sunday 14 January 2001 01:25, you wrote: My BIOS is set to non-PnP. My ISA (real) modem can be jumpered to a specific IRQ, or to PnP. It's currently set to PnP, which works fine in Win98. Linux is a different story. I think you'll have a more successful time if you jumper it to use a

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Ribbo
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Emiliano Ogando wrote: How can i install ppp Please an easy way... Thank... PPP comes with the kernel. its not a program -- "To followers We feed you." -- Klesk, Quake III Arena.

Re: [newbie] menu system problem

2001-01-21 Per discussione civileme
On Sunday 21 January 2001 19:16, you wrote: Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some needed modules) I now have multiple entries of everything in my kmenu...

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
What's the best way to reload it? Fdisk and remove the partition? Is there a less painful way? I tried the other solutions. CPU usage is almost nil... Thanks, BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: Sunday, January 21,

Re: [newbie] OT Travelling -- was drakxtools

2001-01-21 Per discussione Vic
I think that would be a really neat program, that is, if our messed up us government would go for it, I would choose to visit Africa (If I could stand the heat, but from the pictures I have seen from my uncle and aunt, it was such beautiful countryside) and my heritage country (Britain) and

Re: [newbie] menu system problem

2001-01-21 Per discussione KompuKit
I tried that already...it still won't fix it... civileme wrote: On Sunday 21 January 2001 19:16, you wrote: Is there a way to fix multiple entriesin the Kmenu system? after an attempt of installing an app called: "rmagic" for analog (which also used CPAN to install some

Re: [newbie] Re: I want Micro-EMACS

2001-01-21 Per discussione Michael O'Henly
I used emacs until I discovered jed (which is also part of the LM distribution). Jed has most of emacs' power but none of the footprint. It's fast enough to use an an email editor, has umpteen dozen modes that support indenting, syntax highlighting, etc., and is actively developed and

[newbie] gnome-sawfish

2001-01-21 Per discussione Michael Keener
hello worldly beings!!! has anyone experienced problems with gome-sawfish? by problems I mean when logging in and choosing sawfish, it takes anywhere from 1-3 minutes to load and most of the time I can't log off, I have to use ctl-alt-bkspace. all of the other window managers work great.any

RE: [newbie] Mandrake and Winnt

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Bob, Yup, I did read that, and a bunch more... http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/MultiOS-HOWTO.html The how to, although having plenty of good info, does not address win/2000 or nt at all since the author had neither. Sorry. Thought I mentioned that. The reason I'd suggested it was for

[newbie] VMWare license

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Hey, OK. Maybe my last query on this was just too damned wordy;-). Where is the license.txt for VMWare? Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody." -Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux

[newbie] Problem with Gnome

2001-01-21 Per discussione Blomquist, Niklas
I have som problem with Gnome, I can't lock the screen or use anu screensavers. I'm running MD 7.2, Any suggestion? /Niklas -Ursprungligt meddelande- Frn: Meph Istopheles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Skickat: den 21 januari 2001 21:47 Till: Linux-Mandrake Newbie mne: [newbie] VMWare

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Dave Burrows
How can i install ppp This is interesting. Did your copy also come from Wal-Mart? I have a boxed version of 7.2 Complete which, I'm told, may not be so complete. Among other things, it's KDE 2.0 is not the final version but a Beta. Apparently, a disk is now on it's way to amend. Thing

Re: [newbie] all about su

2001-01-21 Per discussione John Agapito
No, I am always pathologically careful to stay away from cooker and anything too bleeding edge. Nevertheless, unless there are better ideas out there, I'll try installing version 2.1.3 of glibc as you suggest. cheers, john Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Did you upgrade glibc via Cooker (the

[newbie] Terratec sound card with CS4624

2001-01-21 Per discussione Leonidas Papadopoulos
Does anyone Know how can i install the Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card? (CS 4624)

Re: [newbie] Terratec sound card with CS4624

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Does anyone Know how can i install the Terratec DMX XFire 1024 sound card? (CS 4624) I have a Crystal Audio card which uses the cs4624 (I think -- HardDrake can't seem to figure it out). I got shound working first with a lesser module, but later with the right one. Do a CTL+ALT+F2 (if

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Sounds like a resolver issue. Most applications, including X need to be able to resolv hostnames to IP addresses. This even if it's only locally. If X cannot determine a local IP then X will not come up right away. Rather the applications will hang up until they time out, then things will run

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione civileme
On Sunday 21 January 2001 22:03, you wrote: How can i install ppp This is interesting. Did your copy also come from Wal-Mart? I have a boxed version of 7.2 Complete which, I'm told, may not be so complete. Among other things, it's KDE 2.0 is not the final version but a Beta.

Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom

2001-01-21 Per discussione Mike Baker
It's an ide reader only. At 16:31 21/01/2001, you wrote: If it is a R/RW CDROM then try /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/cdrom in fstab, but leave the /mnt/cdrom alone Don html I installed version 7.2 from cdrom. br It is an ide reader only. br /etc/fstab includes the line:- br

RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione Bob Currey
As I'm reading this, the install's host name prompt screen sits in front of me. Because of my setup, I am always lost in the how-tos as far as host name is concerned. At the moment, I'm loading a new server. For the time being, it will have eth0 connected to my home net, getting an IP address

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Dave Burrows
I know it was a verbose post but there were 2 points which you missed. You suggest to "choose the expert mode". Would that I could. As I said: "In fact, there were only 2 choices: 300MB minimal and custom installations." As to "DO NOT choose 100% of the packages unless.." snip, I'd agree

Re: [newbie] Elightenment as default

2001-01-21 Per discussione Tony Finnis
Romator wrote: How did it Enlightenment set itself as the default graphical virtual desktop? I used to have KDE as my default autoboot for user. I would like to pick and choose my default. I can't reset it back to KDE. There must be some sort of .conf file for this? And, I'm not too crazy about

[newbie] Resizing Partitions

2001-01-21 Per discussione Clem
Hi, I'm a very newbie Linux-Mandrake user who wants to know what is the best way to increase the size of my Windows Partition (I played around with RedHat a while ago, and set up a 7 GB Windows and a 13 GB RH partition - but most of my memory intensive applications are in Windows). Is it

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Alan Shoemaker
Emiliano Ogando wrote: How can i install ppp Please an easy way... Thank... Emilianoppp-2.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm is a file on your Installation CD. Mount your Installation CD then in console mode, as root, type: rpm -ivh /mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ppp-2.4.0-3mdk.i586.rpm -- Alan

[newbie] fs fs=iso9660 not supported by kernel

2001-01-21 Per discussione Donald Hinds
I've been having more CDROM problems. MD7.2 First I had to change /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0 in fstab. Then I could run the CD and ran the Madrake Update CD. Then in KDE I was getting Permisson denied' (permission was set) amd somehow I fixed that in ROOT mode. But Now I cannot mount cdrom, I

Re: [newbie] BitchX

2001-01-21 Per discussione s
On Sunday 21 January 2001 04:05 pm, you wrote: Hey... I have installed BitchX, but I dont know how to run it... I cant find where is it... On your harddrive: locate bitchx. On the web: http://www.bitchx.org -s

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione s
On Sunday 21 January 2001 06:12 pm, you wrote: Seb, does anyone know how to get a Scanmaker e3 plus to work in LM 7.2 ? It's parralllel Have you tried first, DrakeConf? I've never heard of this manufacturer, but if it's there, you're set. Second would be to check the Linux /or sane

Re: [newbie] Scanner

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
Do you know of a decent scanning suite? I don't know if you're familar with Pagis Pro for windows, but I could really use something like that for Linux. Sorry. I've only recently come by a scanner. It's one of the Silitek's not supported either by sane or W2k (though the driver for W2k

Re: [newbie] Resizing Partitions

2001-01-21 Per discussione Dave Burrows
Clem; I'm only a few days old into Linux, too.. so am not taking expert status here but your situation is not unlike mine. I can't say that this is the right way, the best way or even the safest way but here's how I did it. I used a 1986 copy of Partition Magic (v. 3.0; it's what I had and

[newbie] Oidentd on Mandrake 7.2

2001-01-21 Per discussione John Catral
Hello! Has anyone tried using Oidentd with Mandrake? Did you get it to work? I heard that oidentd works well with any client thats behind a router/firewall that also acts as a dhcp server. The router I am using is FreeSCO. Any tips would be appreciated! =)

Re: [newbie] Elightenment as default

2001-01-21 Per discussione Romanator
Tony Finnis wrote: Romator wrote: How did it Enlightenment set itself as the default graphical virtual desktop? I used to have KDE as my default autoboot for user. I would like to pick and choose my default. I can't reset it back to KDE. There must be some sort of .conf file for this?

Re: [newbie] Tape drive problem

2001-01-21 Per discussione Dan Shanahan
Thanks for the suggestion, I took a quick look at the documentation the command is taper -T scsi but it still doesn't work. When I select "Restore Module" taper does not resond I cannot exit (same as with mt -f /dev/st0). And when I check the status of the process, it again says "down".

[newbie] Notebook display

2001-01-21 Per discussione Ardavan
(I know this is a very general question, but there might be someone out there who can help me.) I was trying to install Mandrake 7.2 on my notebook. After selecting the monitor recommended by the installer, it returned the error message "can't call "set_active" on an undefinied value", and I

Re: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......

2001-01-21 Per discussione abe
are you using DHCP on the windows machines or static IP's? Quaylar wrote: hiho... as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a linux and a win machine through thin ethernet. up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to ping

Re: [newbie] Unable to see cdrom

2001-01-21 Per discussione abe
there is no such directory as /root/mnt/cdrom it is /mnt/cdrom Mike Baker wrote: I installed version 7.2 from cdrom. It is an ide reader only. /etc/fstab includes the line:- /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 I am trying to use the install cd because

Re: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow

2001-01-21 Per discussione abe
you can buy a domain for 15 USD a year at http://www.directnic.com For your internal network? Just make one up. I usually use my computer name plus my ISP. example would be bob.earthlink.net I guess I could be making a horrible mistake here but it's never seemed to cause any problems.

[newbie] NIC Configuration

2001-01-21 Per discussione Rob Callow
I am familiar with Solaris and not Linux. I have installed 2 3com 3c509 ethernet cards in a linux box but I am unsure as to which device to address in the netconf program. If I run ifconfig 3c509 the two interfaces are added and I can configure them that way. Could someone tell me which files I

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-21 Per discussione abe
just to add a little perspective here, most american states are larger then other COUNTRIES. In europe it is not uncommon to be able to cross an entire country in a few hours by car. Yes, a few hours of driving and you are in a region with different Laws, customs, culture, etc. I revently

Re: [newbie] How to install ppp ???

2001-01-21 Per discussione Dave Burrows
Perhaps you were pointing also to what follows but deeper on the page to which you linked earlier: -- Error scenario: Cannot switch to Expert mode with the Complete/Desktop product When: During installation Why: The Complete/Desktop product is designed for beginners, not experts Solution: If you

Re: [newbie] drakxtools

2001-01-21 Per discussione Meph Istopheles
The average income in very small towns like trout creek montana (9 hours from seattle at 90mph) You're neglection the variable time involved on the shoulder of the 90 while the trooper writes you up lectures you on speeding;-). Meph -- "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."

Re: [newbie] all about su

2001-01-21 Per discussione John Agapito
Ok thanks. I'll keep googling around for a solution... John Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I tried doing as you did: upgrading glibc via MandrakeUpdate (not Cooker) and trying to run su. I have no problems. It looks like the cause of your su troubles could be something else. Just don't ask me

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