[newbie-it] Linux Mandrake 8.0 è in edicola

2001-06-01 Per discussione Massimo Lizzi
Lo potete trovare allegato a questa rivista: http://www.oltrelinux.com/home.php?num_riv=16 Ciao, Massimo

Re: [newbie-it] Linux Mandrake 8.0 è inedicola

2001-06-01 Per discussione mistro
Lo potete trovare allegato a questa rivista: http://www.oltrelinux.com/home.php?num_riv=16 Ciao, Massimo Per completezza dell'informazione c'è anche su Linux magazine. E' solo un (1) CD, però. Saluti. Andrea M.

Re: [newbie-it] errori di ricompilazione del kernel

2001-06-01 Per discussione Sebastiano Cordiano
On Thu, 31 May 2001 22:59:19 +0200 (CEST) Gigi Cyber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Saluti a tutti gli aficionados di questa fantastica lista, vi scrivo per esporvi il mio problema. Ho cercato per la cinquantesima volta di ricompilare il kernel, volevo passare dal 2.5.3 al 2.4.5. 2.5.3??? Non

Re: [newbie-it] /etc/modules.conf

2001-06-01 Per discussione Sebastiano Cordiano
On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:27:31 +0200 Alberto Zanoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ciao, avendo seri problemi con kmid e kmidi, che non ne vogliono proprio sapere di funzionare (Mandrake 7.2, KDE 2.0), vorrei chiedere come sia il vostro file /etc/modules.conf. Il mio e' pre-install

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi...

2001-06-01 Per discussione Mr_Brain
Il 23:17, lunedì 28 Maggio 2001, Ale ha scritto: scusate... ho appena installato la mandrake 8.0... all'apparenza tutto bene nella configurazione, solo che puntualmente, dopo pochi minuti che la utilizzo, crasha... :-(( Nessun altro indizio? Come stanno ram e processore? Surriscaldati?

Re: [newbie-it] /etc/modules.conf

2001-06-01 Per discussione Mr_Brain
Il 15:27, giovedì 31 Maggio 2001, hai scritto: Ciao, avendo seri problemi con kmid e kmidi, che non ne vogliono proprio sapere di funzionare (Mandrake 7.2, KDE 2.0), vorrei chiedere come sia il vostro file /etc/modules.conf. Queste righe funzionano bene per una sb16 ISA:

Re: [newbie-it] Hard Disk rallentato

2001-06-01 Per discussione Mr_Brain
Il 02:30, giovedì 31 Maggio 2001, Daniele Micci ha scritto: [cut] 2. ACCESSO AL DISCO. Non so da cosa possa dipendere, ma quando lancio un qualsiasi programma (uso KDE; ho verificato che con GNOME non succede: in quel caso il PC va veloce come sempre!), So che il kernel 2.4 fa un uso piu`

Re: [newbie-it] Risoluzione

2001-06-01 Per discussione Mr_Brain
Il 08:30, giovedì 31 Maggio 2001, Luca Tabor ha scritto: Non riesco a digitare neppure il login. Come faccio a bloccare il loop? Hai provato a partire con un init = 3 (login testuale)? Una volta loggato potresti usare un tool testuale come Xconfigurator per rimettere tutto a posto... Per

Re: [newbie-it] disco di avvio mandrake 7.1

2001-06-01 Per discussione Antonio Bonifati
Sul mio computer ho sia Windows che Linux Mandrake 7.1. Siccome devo reinstallare Windows, come faccio a fare un disco di avvio per Linux dato che quello che avevo fatto durante l'installazione mi si e' danneggiato? Ti sbobino un mio articoletto sull'argomento. Spero sia utile. saluti

[newbie] Disappointed

2001-06-01 Per discussione Adam Henson
Hm.. I have a cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 and a hd.img-2.2.19-BADZ5.. which one should I use and does anyone know how to use them for an install? Adam Henson Facts Helpdesk Advisor Meggitt Petroleum Systems Tel : 02476 69 Fax:02476 418210

RE: [newbie] Latop can't boot

2001-06-01 Per discussione Adam Henson
No - no mater what I try it hangs on INIT: version 2.78 booting Grrr... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 June 2001 10:13 To: Adam Henson Subject: [newbie] Latop can't boot he anny luck so far are you passed init 2.78 Ben de

RE: [newbie] Disappointed

2001-06-01 Per discussione Adam Henson
Yeah, - theres nothing connected to it at all. No fancy devices, no USB no nothing. PCMCIA network card also removed. Plain old laptop. :-( a. -Original Message- From: serafim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 01 June 2001 10:20 To: Adam Henson Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'

[newbie] monitor resolution

2001-06-01 Per discussione Edward Barrow
How do I configure xfree86 4 to produce legible fonts while still using the highest resolution on my monitor? The KDE help centre suggests editing the order of the fonts lines in xf86config, but there are no such lines, just a note saying that a font server is now used. Where is the relevant

[newbie] STUDIO-U-HD-705475 from LaCie on a Dell Inspiron

2001-06-01 Per discussione serafim
I cannot make LM8.0 find and mount a LaCie 20GB USB hard drive on a Dell Inspiron. I wrote to LaCie and there answer is the standard crap from PC/Mac dedicated companies: No tests have been made on Linux with these disks Officially supported operationg systems are the following: - Windows 98 -

Re: [newbie] STUDIO-U-HD-705475 from LaCie on a Dell Inspiron

2001-06-01 Per discussione serafim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is your usb conf. properly. I cannot make LM8.0 find and mount a LaCie 20GB USB hard drive on a Dell Inspiron. Did someone make this disk run properly under any Linux distribution and if so - how? I am slightly mistaken. My Linux-Mandrake(8.0) finds it but

[newbie] MANDRAKE 2ND CD INSTALL PROBLEM

2001-06-01 Per discussione D. Hoyem
I have a P200 32M ram Mach64 Video and want to install 8.0 on it. I have attempted to install 8.0 previously, but when it asked for the 2nd CD, I could not get the CD drawer to open. I have been able to install other distro's on it with multiple CD's with no problem. Any help would be

Re: [newbie] gcc ?

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Thursday 31 May 2001 23:53, you wrote: I just curious about the gcc 2.96 packaged with Mandrake 8.0, is it stable ? because the history of gcc 2.96 packaged with redhat 7.0 was not good right ? Well, the number 2.96 was abandoned by the gcc team. We used it to identify our pruning from

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 01:25, OOzy Pal wrote: I have already ordered my system with MSI K7T Turbo-R I hope it works fine. Even though it is RAID but I am running it as a normal IDE. I hope you realize you have the right to turn it around unopened and I STRONGLY recommend you do so. I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 setup hangs

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 02:27, Jesús Saucedo wrote: mandrake 8 setup hangs at the moment the cracklib package is being copied during the installation process, i am trying to install mandrake 8 on a celeron 400 pc with 128 ram and a 10 gb hard disk, the same result happens while trying the same

Re: [newbie] Partition problem after install

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 03:35, Ivor Blockley wrote: Hi I just installed mandrake 7.2 and now dos can't see my fat32 extended partitions (although linux still sees them). Prior to the mandrake install my harddrive was configured into 5 partitions - a primary dos fat32 parition (c:) which I

Re: [newbie] MANDRAKE 2ND CD INSTALL PROBLEM

2001-06-01 Per discussione Richard Turner
I have a similar problem with my CD - it opens but the install program goes straight into post install and does not attempt to read the second CD (nor prompt for it). It reports install successful but will not boot into Mandrake 8. The disks worked fine on another machine using the graphical

[newbie] Re: Disappointed

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 11:24, Adam Henson wrote: Civileme, You suggested trying an alternative image from the cdrom/images - how can I use one of these alternative images? A. In linux-- dd if=/images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 of=/dev/fd0 Use that floppy for boot/install

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 8 setup hangs

2001-06-01 Per discussione Richard Turner
Are you using the text install? I have a problem with text installation which sounds similar. - Original Message - From: Jesús Saucedo To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 1:27 AM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake 8 setup hangs mandrake 8 setup

[newbie] Linux Blue Screen of Death

2001-06-01 Per discussione CHAN Kin Poon
Greetings, I wonder if anyone experienced this. I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and Kmail to download emails from my ISP. If I have approx 300 or more emails Kmail will crash out after downloading all the emails. What is left is the Linux blue screen of death! I've to press CTRL+ALT+Backspace keys to

[newbie] Disappointed - the saga continues

2001-06-01 Per discussione Adam Henson
Just looked at the partition tables with partition magic, and it only lists a Linux EXT2 filesystem, and one other partition of hex type 85. Surely this isnt right? When Mandrake installs it repartitions with two data partitions and a swap partition..? Might this be what is causing INIT to hang

[newbie] PAM problem

2001-06-01 Per discussione Quaylar
hi all ! i am experiencing following problem : i am trying to login to my qpopper (pop3) server and get following PAM error : PAM_pwdb[2237]: authentication failure; (uid=0) - mylogin for pop3 service does anyone know why this happens ?.. this is mysterious because my user login doesnt

RE: [newbie] PAM problem

2001-06-01 Per discussione Quaylar
At 14:45 01.06.2001 +0200, you wrote: with isp are you shure it sisn't pop2 . Ben de man running LM8.0 using KDE2 DT on a AMDk6-3-450mhz 196ram voodoo2 and rivatnt 2, 6,4 gb hd and tv-card (pinnacle tv rave) and CDRW 4/4/24 and DVD 40/12 hi its not the server of my isp but my OWN..and

[newbie] Disappointed - the saga continues

2001-06-01 Per discussione Adam Henson
Damn! No such luck. I repartitioned the drive with two ext2 partitions and a swap partition and reinstalled LM8. STILL no joy.. hangs on INIT 2.78. Is there no way of getting Mandrake running? :-( Someone pleeease help! a. Adam Henson Facts Helpdesk Advisor Meggitt Petroleum

[newbie] CD Writer

2001-06-01 Per discussione Jordan Elver
Hello, I've just got a cd writer after all your wonderful advice last week ;-) I have it installed and working. But not as a cdwriter. it works as a cdrom and Mandrake found it, but what now. All the tutorials that I have found refer to using lilo and using modprobe etc, but I'm using grub,

[newbie] Servlet engine on Mandrake 8

2001-06-01 Per discussione Nhu Le
I used to use JServ to run my servlets on 7.2 but now I don't have that option anymore. From what I understand, JServ is now merged into the Jakarta project and an obvious alternative is Tomcat engine. I can't find the Tomcat rpm on the 2 downloaded CDs. Am I missing something or is it

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-06-01 Per discussione Jordan Elver
I did. From the install cds, but if the burner isn't working as a scsi device it won't work ;-) On Friday 01 June 2001 10:13, you wrote: Hey, Try going to www.tucows.com and getting some Burner software. Install it and see what happens. -Original Message- From: Jordan

Re: [newbie] Linux Blue Screen of Death

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 14:19, CHAN Kin Poon wrote: Greetings, I wonder if anyone experienced this. I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and Kmail to download emails from my ISP. If I have approx 300 or more emails Kmail will crash out after downloading all the emails. What is left is the Linux blue

Re: [newbie] Disappointed - the saga continues

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 14:46, Adam Henson wrote: Just looked at the partition tables with partition magic, and it only lists a Linux EXT2 filesystem, and one other partition of hex type 85. Surely this isnt right? When Mandrake installs it repartitions with two data partitions and a swap

[newbie] OT: A strange one...

2001-06-01 Per discussione poogle
I have just replaced my PC case, a baby AT motherboard into an ATX case. Now because of the difference between AT and ATX power supplies my PC powers down when I issue the shutdown command, well almost, the monitor goes into suspend. Now for the strange part, if I have left my external

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione OOzy Pal
Hi Are you saying that this motherboard will not work with Linux? If this true then I am screwed. http://tw.msi.com.tw/showroom/mainboard/eng/k7tturbo-R.htm --- Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 01:25, OOzy Pal wrote: I have already ordered my system with MSI

Re: [newbie] OT: A strange one...

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 22:12, poogle wrote: I have just replaced my PC case, a baby AT motherboard into an ATX case. Now because of the difference between AT and ATX power supplies my PC powers down when I issue the shutdown command, well almost, the monitor goes into suspend. Now for the

RE: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Shawn Dolan
I'm running the A7V133 as well. I could not ask for more in a motherboard. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of OOzy Pal Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 10:45 AM To: Civileme; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Brandon Caudle; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Paul
It was Fri, 1 Jun 2001 13:17:34 +0200 when Civileme wrote: MSI K7T Turbo-R I hope you realize you have the right to turn it around unopened and I STRONGLY recommend you do so. I can more or less guarantee it will NOT work. Hot dang, thanks Civileme! I just got in an offer for a new PC, and

Re: [newbie] OT: A strange one...

2001-06-01 Per discussione John Rye
On Fri, 1 Jun 2001 17:57:49 +0200 Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 01 June 2001 22:12, poogle wrote: I have just replaced my PC case, a baby AT motherboard into an ATX case. Now because of the difference between AT and ATX power supplies my PC powers down when I issue the

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 17:45, OOzy Pal wrote: Hi Are you saying that this motherboard will not work with Linux? If this true then I am screwed. http://www.promise.com/PDF/FastTrak100.pdf Look at operating systems--No linux available... The driver we have to run it as a regular

Re: [newbie] Installing RPM's

2001-06-01 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Michael, I'm curious -- what email client do you use? It appears that you are able to somehow automatically incorporate some boilerplate text in your replies (First, please try ... difficult to read.) -- I'm curious how you do that? Thanks, Randy Kramer Michael D. Viron wrote: First,

RE: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Shawn Dolan
I'm using a promise ATA 33/66/100 driver from www.linhardware.com direct link: http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispdriver.php3?DISP?1069 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Civileme Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:07 AM To: OOzy Pal; [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione tazmun
Civileme Are you saying the mother board will not work period? Or are you rather saying the raid portion of the motherboard will not workie. the onboard promise adaptor will be supported for the 100 ATA harddrive rate in Linux but the Raid portion will not work Tazmun - Original

[newbie] md5 passwords

2001-06-01 Per discussione Quaylar
hi all i think i found the solution to my qpopper problem. it seems that qpopper cant deal with my md5 encr. passwords- i remember i chose md5 at install-time, but now i would like to change it back to dont use it, so i am able to user qpopper does anybody know how i can disable md5 passwords

[newbie] AOpen Modem

2001-06-01 Per discussione OOzy Pal
Hello When I got my system, it came with a free AOpen PCI Winmodem FM56-PM. Before I go and buy a new Linux compatible modem, I want to make sure that this modem won't work with linux. Does any one have any experience in running this modem under linux. See modem specs and link below: Model:

[newbie] VMware disk permissions

2001-06-01 Per discussione Renaud OLGIATI
I'm trying to configure VMware. As root, I can configure it to use the existing HD dos partition to run DOS. As user, i get an error message: Unable to open the /dev/hda device permission device How do I give a user permission to access /dev/hda ? TIA Ron the Frog, emulating on the banks of

Re: [newbie] mknod and dd

2001-06-01 Per discussione David E. Fox
I use the mknod command:...mknod /dev/fd0H1743 b 2 76 and I get. mknod: /dev/fd0H1743: File exists Well, if the floppy device already exists in /dev, there's not much point in running a mknod on it -- all that does is create a special file with entries into the driver table (that's what

[newbie] NIC Billionton in my laptop

2001-06-01 Per discussione hmi
I've just installed Mandrake 8.0 in my laptop, Mitac, AMD K6-2, 475 Mhz, Ram 88 Mb. Everything is okey, except: a. the onboard-modem can not function, but for the time being it is okey, since my laptop always connects to the network. b. NIC Billionton 10/100 Base/FastEthernet can not function.

Re: [newbie] monitor resolution

2001-06-01 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
Edit the order of the fonts in the xfs config file: vi /etc/X11/fs/config (it probably has the 75 point first and the 100point second. Reverse that, and put the 100 point first.). Then, stop restart xfs: service xfs restart Then stop restart X (a little trickier). If you're using kdm/gdm

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 19:07, Shawn Dolan wrote: I'm using a promise ATA 33/66/100 driver from www.linhardware.com direct link: http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispdriver.php3?DISP?1069 The page shows NO SUPPORT for the RAID controller--the FastTrak which is what is on the MSI board. It is in

Re: [newbie] A good Motherboard

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 19:13, tazmun wrote: Civileme Are you saying the mother board will not work period? Or are you rather saying the raid portion of the motherboard will not workie. the onboard promise adaptor will be supported for the 100 ATA harddrive rate in Linux but the Raid

[newbie] Hi everybody

2001-06-01 Per discussione Mehmet Erolu
I have mandrake 7.2 on my computer and also ý have apache int. pci mdem?:)) is there anyway to work wth my apache modem in the linux? Thanks..

RE: [newbie] AOpen Modem

2001-06-01 Per discussione OOzy Pal
I am not sure. It think it is a controller modem or winmodem. --- Williams, Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a WinModem or a Hardware Modem? -Original Message- From: OOzy Pal [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [newbie] AOpen Modem

2001-06-01 Per discussione mooseman
have you tried to find it on www.linmodems.org? they have quite a list and will tell you the status that they know of. moose. At 01:13 PM 01-06-01 -0700, you wrote: I am not sure. It think it is a controller modem or winmodem. --- Williams, Kris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is this a WinModem

Re: [newbie] AOpen Modem

2001-06-01 Per discussione Civileme
On Friday 01 June 2001 20:10, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello When I got my system, it came with a free AOpen PCI Winmodem FM56-PM. Before I go and buy a new Linux compatible modem, I want to make sure that this modem won't work with linux. Does any one have any experience in running this modem

[newbie] network problems

2001-06-01 Per discussione David Beahm
HW: Epox mbd, w/ resources set manually, AMD K6-2/350, 256MB SDRAM 3Com 3c509, port=300, irq=10 Everything worked ok under Windows. Just installed Mandrake 8.0 Standard Edition, and everything appears fine except the network (internal LAN). On one level it appears to be configured,