[newbie-it] /dev/sequencer bloccato

Ciao, ho un problema quando lancio kmid (per sentire i file midi). Se lo lancio da console ottengo [alberto@master alberto]$ kmid [1] 1582 [alberto@master alberto]$ KMid 2.0 Copyright (C) 1997,98,99,2000 Antonio Larrosa Jimenez. Malaga (Spain) KMid comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;

[newbie-it] Registrazione

Ciao, vorrei chiedere un'informazione sulla possibilita' di registrare suoni con Linux. Ho attaccato un microfono al mio computer, e vorrei sapere se qualcuno conosca/usi qualche tool per registrare il suono, creando, ad esempio, un file .wav. Grazie,

[newbie-it] Problemi di accesso alle partizioni NTFS da parte di utenti non ROOT

L'obbiettivo è di permettere l'accesso a due partizioni di win2000 a tutti gli utenti. Ho modificato il file /etc/fstab come sotto riportato ma mentre il ROOT accede benissimo alle due partizioni, gli altri utenti non possono. Il messaggio di errore che compare quando si tenta di accedere alla

[newbie-it] Programma di contabilità

Qualcuno di voi sa se esistono programmi (con licenza GPL) di contabilità per Linux? Ciao e grazie Marco

[newbie-it] Xmovie ed xmms

Nessuno dei 2 programmi mi va piu' da quando sono passato dalla 7.2 alla 8. Ho letto che in effetti il secondo e' buggato, senza pero' trovare la patch. E di Xmovie? ci sono altri che hanno problemi? Uso KDE ciao!

[newbie-it] Installazione M8???????

Ciao a tutti Vorrei esporre il mio problema: non sono riuscito a installare la mandrake nel mio computer di casa mentre i sul mio posto di lavoro si: Io posseggo un compaq presario con un celeron 433 ed ero riuscito ad installa re sia la 7.1 che la 7.2: adesso quando parte l'installazione della

RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will.

good, that will drive people in droves to linux,,, MS know that, thats why they hate and attack it at every turn... They don't like the fact that a viable alternative has appeared, they probablly thought that was over when OS2 dies.. (also a better OS then windows.) If this list and all the

RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will.

If you think about it, Microsnot,, is just a bunch of little boys in suits,, most of them lawyers not programmers,, so they are getting pissed that they are being surpassed by open source and losing revenue because of it,, they also need to impress their shareholders by saying they are doin

[newbie] Configuring K-Mail

Hello, Thank you Walter and Lance for the time of a reply. There may have been a few others to be so kind as to reply,but my Eudora sneezed y'day so I'm not sure :) Anyways, I am in k-mail,using the exact settings that work in Eudora.The problem is recieving mail only as I am able to send. So

[newbie] Couldn't find interface ppp()

I run kppp under terminal and i use user (not root) and i get this message Couldn't find interface ppp():No such device . But I still can use connect to internet. What I must do to fix this problem. Thank

[newbie] Virtual Machines

Does anybody out there know of a product that will allow a user to run Windows Apps under Mandrake or any other flavor of Linux? I know there is VMWare, but is there a product that will run any Windows Apps w/o a Windows OS? Sounds crazy?

Re: [newbie] Virtual Machines

Does anybody out there know of a product that will allow a user to run Windows Apps under Mandrake or any other flavor of Linux? I know there is VMWare, but is there a product that will run any Windows Apps w/o a Windows OS? Sounds crazy? Wine is apparently pretty good with many win apps. I

RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don'tknow what will.

ya know, about a year ago i read someplace that Gates was considering a system by which Windows would run off the internet and you would pay a yearly fee for using it. Since then i have heard nothing else about this plan. maybe it was only a rumour, but from the M$ point of view (hatred of

[newbie] Hard to read fonts in text editors.

When I used Konqueror to view a file or open one up using a gui text editor the fonts are almost unreadable. I have no idea where I am supposed to change the font settings. I am pretty sure that Courier is beinig used for the Fixed fonts in text files. I am using Mandrake 8.0. I did notice

[newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in there? Any ideas? TIA, Cheers, Jord

[newbie] tracing process

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Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? 'man rm' suggests that 'rm -rf' is what you want.

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Ooo! Oooo! I know this one hand waving in air With the ole force argument/option. Looks like this: -f. ex: rm -rf /home/s/junk/ -s :-) On Wednesday 02 May 2001 02:03 pm, you wrote: Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder?

Re: [newbie] KDE's address book data

On Wednesday 02 May 2001 04:40, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about [newbie] KDE's address book data that ... I would like to make a backup of the data stored in KDE's Address Book, abbrowser. Does anybody know where this data is found? Sure. It should be a *.kab file in

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

rm -rf - Original Message - From: Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 2:03 PM Subject: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

try rm -rf folder On Wed, 2 May 2001, Jordan Elver wrote: Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there might be an alias in .bashrc but I can't see anything in there? Any ideas? TIA, Cheers, Jord

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

there is indeed an alias i have such a thing also and it is put there upon install in order to protect us from ourselves. =) check again... it is someplace, either in you /home/user or maybe also in a global file. but it is there. i'm sure someone else can point you right to it. i

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

They do have an alias. I don't remember where it's defined, though. Until you find it, you can do rm -f, but please be careful. --- Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, How do I remove stuff i.e. rm -r folder/ without having to type yes to every file in the folder? I thought there

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

If rm is still asking you about each file, be sure it isn't aliased. If it asks questions, type Ctrl-C to exit, then re-run rm as follows: \rm -rf the \ will turn off any aliases for rm, such as 'rm=rm -i'. See the man page as Mark suggested for more info. ===Keith - Original Message

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Try /bin/rm -r folder/ but be careful, you will get no second chance. There is an alias somewhere that aliases rm so that it normally specifies the -i option (for interactive) which forces you to type yes to each filename. (I don't know where the alias is and haven't looked for it.) Using

Re: [newbie] Requesting removal

OK - then go back to where you signed up and follow the directions to have your name taken off the list - no one here can do it for you. At 12:22 PM 5/2/2001 -0500, you wrote: Can ya'll please remove me from this list. I am functioning well in Linux now and do not need the list. Thank you for

[newbie] Sound Card recommendation

Right now, I use Riptide and there is no driver for linux. I am considering to change my sound card. However, I need a PCI 2.2 compliant sound card that is supported by linux. All the ones I found are PCI 2.1 compliant. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanx you. Valerie

[newbie] Newbie Question

Hi, folks !!! Can Anyone tell me what is the real difference between Mandrake80-inst.iso and Mandrake80-ext.iso I'm downloading this, can You tell me something about it. Lúcio Costa São Paulo/Brazil

[newbie] rebuilding the kernel

Hi all 1. What packages do i need to download to rebuild my kernel 2. Where can i find a guide or how-to to rebuild my kernel Carlos Berardi

Re: [newbie] LM 8.0 (and KDE and otherwise) woes

Figured out how to get the root icon back. In KDE, go to the Login Manager under the Configuration/KDE menu (the KDE control center doesn't ask for root access), go to users, and select yourself, root, and whatever other users you wish to see, and select the show only selected radio button.

Re: [newbie] Configuring K-Mail

It was Wed, 02 May 2001 06:36:58 -0700 when Lee wrote: Hello, Thank you Walter and Lance for the time of a reply. There may have been a few others to be so kind as to reply,but my Eudora sneezed y'day so I'm not sure :) Anyways, I am in k-mail,using the exact settings that work in Eudora.The

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Thanks everyone. Gonna track that alias down somewhere ;-) Cheers, Jord On Wednesday 02 May 2001 13:01, you wrote: They do have an alias. I don't remember where it's defined, though. Until you find it, you can do rm -f, but please be careful. --- Jordan Elver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

Lucio, Mandrake80-inst.iso is the image to actually install LM 8.0 on your computer, whereas Mandrake80-ext.iso is the image for the extra applications not necessary to install and run LM 8.0. You don't actually need the -ext image to be able to install and use LM 8.0, just the -inst one.

Re: [newbie] rebuilding the kernel

http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/install/kupgrade.html --- Carlos Berardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all 1. What packages do i need to download to rebuild my kernel 2. Where can i find a guide or how-to to rebuild my kernel Carlos Berardi

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Randy Kramer wrote: Try /bin/rm -r folder/ but be careful, you will get no second chance. Y'all be careful with that! I had a Jr. admin helping me clean up a production server one day. She went to clean out an old directory (she was in the dir at the time). So she (rather quickly) typed rm

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

The -inst.iso file is the first (bootable) CD. -ext.iso is the second CD. Michael -- Michael Viron Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 04:11 PM 05/02/2001 -0300, Lúcio Costa wrote: Hi, folks !!! Can Anyone tell me what is the real

[newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)

I was just trying to find this so that I could check to see which version of X I am running, and to my surprise, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't seem to have one??? I am running the Release Candidate 1 (FWIW). Thanks, Steven

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

The inst package will create a bootable CD for you that will install the basic Mandrake system. The ext package contains hundreds of RPM packages that you will probably want to install so that you have a fully operating system. ...Dave Quoting Lúcio Costa [EMAIL

[newbie] Scanner

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone had any luck installing a SCSI scanner on their Mandrake 7.2 configuration. However, I have a zipdrive as my first SCSI device, and it is in the chain of SCSI devices. The system recognizes it, but I haven't installed SANE. I was just wondering. My scanner

[newbie] PCI

I have a PCI soundcard which is trying to use irq 11, (if I'm not mistaken) The problem is my video card is taking irq 11. So I can't get my sound card to work. Actually, if my sound card is physically in it's PCI slot, HardDrake crashes when booting up. The only way I can boot my machine with

[newbie] RE: [expert] Does the Software Manager Work?

-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jason Chaffey Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Does the Software Manager Work? Hi, everyone. Has anyone been able to use the Software Manager

Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

Simple answer: Mandrake80-inst.iso = Disk 1 Mandrake80-ext.iso = Disk 2 S'all there is to that. Ric Terry wrote: Lucio, Mandrake80-inst.iso is the image to actually install LM 8.0 on your computer, whereas Mandrake80-ext.iso is the image for the extra applications not

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[newbie] removal from email listing

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Re: [newbie] Newbie Question

Lúcio Costa wrote: Hi, folks !!! Can Anyone tell me what is the real difference between Mandrake80-inst.iso and Mandrake80-ext.iso I'm downloading this, can You tell me something about it. Lúcio Costa São Paulo/Brazil LúcioMandrake80-inst.iso is installation CD #1 and

[newbie] [OT] Question about HUBs

Sorry for the off-topic message, but I figured y'all would know this off the bat. If I have an 8 port hub that doesn't have an WAN or Uplink port and I want to connect it another hub ( a LinkSys Router actually ), do I just need to connect, for example, port 1 on the LinkSys to port 1 on the

Re: [newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)

You might be using XFree86 3.3.x. XFree86 3.3.x does not use /var/log/XFree86.***.log (or at least not on LM7.2), which might be the reason why those files are not there. To find out which version of X you're running, try two things: a) ls -al /etc/X11/X. /etc/X11/X is a symbolic link, and if

Re: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will.

- Original Message - From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie@Linux-Mandrake. Com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:32 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] If this will not turn businesses to Linux I don't know what will. If you think about it, Microsnot,, is just a bunch of

Re: [newbie] Sound Card recommendation

Isn't PCI 2.2 backwards compatible with 2.1? Check the supported hardware list on the web page. That should give you an indiction/suggest. Myself and another member of UNIXTECHS.ORG have SoundBlaster 16's. Mean while he had problems getting it to work initially, but after moving the card to

Re: [newbie] Hard to read fonts in text editors. [OT]

Steve: Since you brought up the subject of hard-to-read, please turn off the HTML. Plain text works much better for e-mail. Your HTML is real squinty and gray in Netscape; for people that use some other mail readers, they have to wade through all of the HTML tags. A lot of them don't, thereby

Re: [newbie] PCI

I had a similar problem with an ethernet card, that in windows was irq 5 but in linux this irq was occuped for other peripheric; the problem was solved when I try a modprobe using memory address of the card but not irq (it was a ethernet card compatible with ne2000 -module ne- and that used

Re: [newbie] rm 'ing stuff

Most shells have what I like to call dumby aliases. In the .shellrc, and when I say .shellrc I mean .YOUR_SHELLrc file. So if you are using bash, in your .bashrc you will find various dumby aliases. [timh@eric timh]$ cat .bashrc # .bashrc # User specific aliases and functions alias rm='rm

Re: [newbie] No mouse and keyboard response in mandrake logon

Mike, I think and that is think your first error was installing Mandrake from windows.. You should install it on start up before it gets to windows. Do you have your CD selected in BIOS in the startup configuration? My Bios is set to start in this sequesce CD, floppy then hard drive. Also di

Re: [newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)

X -version --- Steven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just trying to find this so that I could check to see which version of X I am running, and to my surprise, Mandrake 8.0 doesn't seem to have one??? I am running the Release Candidate 1 (FWIW). Thanks, Steven

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Re: [newbie] Hard to read fonts in text editors. [OT]

Steve, First of all try turning on Anti-Aliased fonts. Bring up the KDE Control Center. Click LookNFeel. Click Style. Click the Use Anti-Aliasing for fonts and icons checkbox. Click Fonts on the left. Go through the listed fonts replacing them with the fonts you prefer. Note that you can

[newbie] lilo (boot cylender too big 1024)

I have installed linux-mandrake on my computer before but now when I try to everthing works fine untill it starts to install the bootloader then a message apears it says that the bootloader is to big then if I delete the windows boot partition it works fine. I have had both os on before, can

[newbie] KDE themes

Can someone out there give me a hand on getting some decent themes for KDE (2.1.1 I think) for LM 8.0? Themes.com's themes aren't loaded for some reason, assuming I have even done that right. In fact I can't even find out where KDE themes are stored under 8.0

[newbie] Virtual Machines

VMWare is supposedly a really good emulator for Windows apps. Apparently it allows you to run virtual machines on your linux box. Give them a look at www.vmware.com . If you have a boxed set of LM7.2 I know there is a RPM there for VMware

Re: [newbie] Missing /var/log/XFree86.***.log file??? (Mandrake 8.0 rc1)

Or, you can simply type: X -version from either the terminal or the console. [pj_hooker@flindet pj_hooker]$ X -version XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6400) Release Date: 16 March 2001 If the server is older than 6-12 months,

[newbie] Re: [expert] ALSA sound in new kernel

Unfortunately, in my case (and I assume Turgut's as well), the alsa sound module *is* loading, along with the other modules. The output on my laptop from lsmod proves this. Also, the Kcontrol sound options are different in Mdk 7.2 -- must be a different version of KDE, or at least Kcontrol? I

[newbie] new modem info

Just in case users are wondering. I went and bought a brand new : Creative labs Modem Blaster V.90 External DE5625 56k kbps/Data/Fax/Voice Modem today... I set it up in windows first (have dual-boot two HDs) then I re-booted to Mandrake-Linux 7.2 The OS seen it...on boot...(saw lights

[newbie] Problemo with Mandrake 8.0

Hi I just installed the mandrake 8.0 on a workstation and found that a lot of things isn't working for me, before I had mandrake 7.1 and 7.2 and they worked fine. 1. I have a old SCSI interface (aha1542) wish i use for my CD-rom drive and my CD-rom burner, but on this version of mandrake it

[newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

I know this is going to get me a serious heckling, but... Unfortunately, my boss wants me to switch one of our (very stable) Mandrake servers to Win2000 Pro (only) for a tester. The problem I keep running into is that I cannot get the server to boot from the Windows install cd. It goes through

Re: [newbie] Switching from LM 7.0 to Win2000 Pro

Victor, Boot from a windows 95/98 boot disk, get to the dos prompt, and type 'fdisk /mbr'. Then try booting off the CD. If you still can't, do an internet search on windows boot images--there is a site (url escapes me at the moment), that provides boot disk images of virtual any os that you

[newbie] Lines going across screen in X

Hello (Geforce 2 w/ 64 mb's DDR-RAM, ASUS A7V mother board, Xfree86 4.03) I am pretty new to linux and I just switched over from Redhat to Mandrake to see how it was. Needless to say its very nice. However after about 10-12 hours of my Desktop being open (doesnt matter if I actually use it in

Re: [newbie] Hard to read fonts in text editors. Sorry!!![OT]

Arggg, My apologies to all in the mail list. I just saw my message and it is awful. I thought that I had HTML turned off. I know better than to use HTML, especial in a mail list. Steve Helder - Original Message - From: Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]