Re: [newbie-it] zend optimizer

2001-09-03 Per discussione robirossi
vorrei installare zend optimizer 1.1.0 su mandrake 8.0 con php 4.0.4.qualcuno sa dirmi come si fa? grazie roberto

Re: [newbie-it] MS office

2001-09-03 Per discussione max
Il 04:58, domenica 02 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Il 10:27, domenica 02 settembre 2001, hai scritto: ho installato Mandrake 8 come posso operare sui miei file di Word, Access, Excell dato che Koffice non me li apre? Libero Dipende: pe un uso normale potresti cavartela installando

[newbie-it] Problemi con mail, fetchmail e wget

2001-09-03 Per discussione Papa Delia Mihaela
Ciao! Io ho problemi con il programma mail. Provo a scrivere una mail ad un altro utente sullo stesso sistema, ma non funziona. All'inizio diceva che non esiste nessuna interfaccia di rete configurata (?!?). Adesso non dice più' niente ma la mail non arriva. Devo attivare una funzione, un MTA o

Re: [newbie-it] Fwd: Re: [linux] MDK8 alcuni problemi

2001-09-03 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 05:27, domenica 02 settembre 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] E infine, dispongo di una Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128, che mi dicono non sia nulla di speciale ma per l'uso che ne faccio io è sufficiente. Ho cercato di configurare la MDK per il suono, ma non va. Tenendo conto che ancora

[newbie-it] Problemi con il LILO Boot

2001-09-03 Per discussione [Whisper]
Ciao a tutti, quando si avvia il PC, il LILO mi chiede di selezionare LINUX, e non posso accedere alla partizione con WINDOWS 2000 (LINUX è su C:, mentre WINDOWS 2000 è du D:) come faccio a selezionare anche windows senza rimuovere il LILO ? grazie

R: [newbie-it] Problemi con il LILO Boot

2001-09-03 Per discussione LordZe
In Teoria NON SI PUO' Grazie a delle particolari caratteristiche del bootloader di NT (NTDLR.EXE), Per eseguire un DUal Boot devi far si che sia Windoze a far partire linux e non viceversa xchè windows 2000 (nt in genere) non utilizza il boot loader standard come fà 98 ma uno tutto suo.. quindi..

Re: [newbie-it] Problemi con il LILO Boot

2001-09-03 Per discussione Stefano Salari
--- [Whisper] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Ciao a tutti, quando si avvia il PC, il LILO mi chiede di selezionare LINUX, e non posso accedere alla partizione con WINDOWS 2000 (LINUX è su C:, mentre WINDOWS 2000 è du D:) come faccio a selezionare anche windows senza rimuovere il LILO ?

[newbie-it] star office

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lux
Sapete darmi un indirizzo dove scaricare StarOffice o dove trovare i cd? -- Ciao, Lux :-))

Re: [newbie-it] star office

2001-09-03 Per discussione Marco
www.sun.com e li cerchi staroffice ciao Marco - Original Message - From: Lux [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2001 12:15 AM Subject: [newbie-it] star office Sapete darmi un indirizzo dove scaricare StarOffice o dove trovare i cd? -- Ciao,

[newbie-it] modem occupato

2001-09-03 Per discussione mario
Ciao a tutti,ho installato linux mandracke da poco,ho configurato la connessione ad internet direttamente dal disco di installazione pero quando cerco di connettermi mi compare la scritta modem occupato,il modem è interno e risulta installato,grazie ciao.

[newbie-it] ciao

2001-09-03 Per discussione leo
Ciao a tutti sentite ho un grosso problema io ho un pc in cui ho installato mandrake 8.0 e non riesco a fargli riconoscere il modem, esso è un Motorola SM56 ho scritto al servizio assistenza motorola e mi hanno dato un URL dove scaricare il driver ma una volta installato non riconosce lo stesso

Re: [newbie-it] ciao

2001-09-03 Per discussione Maurizio Scaglione
Il 18:50, lunedì 03 settembre 2001, hai scritto: Ciao a tutti sentite ho un grosso problema io ho un pc in cui ho installato mandrake 8.0 e non riesco a fargli riconoscere il modem, esso è un Motorola SM56 ho scritto al servizio assistenza motorola e mi hanno dato un URL dove scaricare il

Re: [newbie] Another opinion, please.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 15:21, Gonzalix le Druide wrote: I have the same old problem with my Trident 975 AGP video card and LM 7.2. I believe you are much more advanced than me. I have the opinion of Jim. He said: Any of the recent ATI cards will work fine. For cheapness, try the SIS range or

Re: [newbie] how to add ttf?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:34, Pun Kuan Tou wrote: when I used mkttfdir to add some turetype fonts, It only have medium type fonts, no bold or italic. How can I add some bold and italic fonts ? Bold and italic versions of TrueType fonts are usually stored in separate files from the normal font.

[newbie] KPPP in Gnome (was Newbie still having problems...)

2001-09-03 Per discussione Paul
If you're using KDE try: KMenu Networking Remote Access Internet Dialer which hopefully will start kppp. I use kppp in KDE and it works fine, however I can't for the life of me get Gnome ppp (in Gnome) to work - I always get the error message the pppdaemon has died unexpectedly.

[newbie] Re: Domain name??

2001-09-03 Per discussione Stanley Sze
Hi, Here is my problem :( --the domain name that I set up for the server is for example, "linux-mandrake.com"and thehost name is "linux." However, I could only receive mails that are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]but not [EMAIL PROTECTED], which is the one I want. Can any tell me how to fix the

Re: [newbie] access permissions, please help

2001-09-03 Per discussione skinky
On Monday 03 September 2001 11:13, you wrote: Hello again, I'm trying to access my CD-Rom drive to install some items... but it says I don't have access rights to the drive... I am logged in as root and still I cannot access the drive; same message. Can someone direct me to where I can

RE: [newbie] Re: Domain name??

2001-09-03 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Title: Message Eh, try aliasing (CNAME) the linux-mandrake.com to linux.linux-mandrake.com in your DNS. Note this will only work if your DNS is authorative for your domain, and your domain is in turn registed with the Internic. You'll also have to modify your mail server to accept mail

RE: [newbie] OT - Hardware Dimensions

2001-09-03 Per discussione Franki
You are making a wrong assumption, AT and ATX have more to do with the motherboard design then they do with the size of the board.. If you have an AT board and case, the power supply has a seperate on/off switch that cuts the power from the motherboard directly... (an AT board has a power plug

Re: [newbie] Concurrent Remote X Login

2001-09-03 Per discussione Miark
Hi Isaac, I don't remember how to run X remotely, although it can obviously be done. What I've been doing a lot, though, is running individual X apps from my desktop (upstairs) on my laptop (downstairs with the stereo and TV ;-) Here's how you can do it: 1) On Speedy, run the telnet server.

RE: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione Franki
or open a console/xterm and type: kppp and that will start kppp if you have it installed... (I use kppp from within Icewm this way...) rgds Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of skinky Sent: Monday, 3 September 2001 3:35 PM To:

[newbie] how do i watch a movie on kde?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa
hi i got some files of format :avi, quicktime mov, mpeg, mp3, mpg, etc.and i wanna watch/hear them!! what i did was go to www.projectmayo.com and downloaded the rpms (from rpmfind.net Polish(ed) distribution .i686 format) for xmps, opendivx lib and decore. what happens is : from the command

Re: [newbie] how to add ttf?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Pun Kuan Tou
¦b 2001 ¤E¤ë 3 ¬P´Á¤@ 14:40¡A±z¼g¹D: On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:34, Pun Kuan Tou wrote: when I used mkttfdir to add some turetype fonts, It only have medium type fonts, no bold or italic. How can I add some bold and italic fonts ? Bold and italic versions of TrueType fonts are usually

Re[2]: [newbie] Firewalling

2001-09-03 Per discussione Colin Jenkins
Hello Mark, Monday, September 03, 2001, 9:05:24 AM, you wrote: MW Colin, MW If you open Mandrake's control center you'll be able to configure your MW firewall in there. Mdk 8.0 comes with iptables and there are two way to MW configure your firewall already on your machine. You have both tiny

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Firewalling

2001-09-03 Per discussione Paul
I did configure the firewall from Mandrake control center, but that stopped all local network access (printing, logon etc). I came to the conclusion that it is not possible to run a firewall on the same box that is used for logon, print sharing. or is there something i'm missing? Yes.

[newbie] can't set up SB Live! 5.1

2001-09-03 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
hi. i am using Mandrake 8.0 and i'm using alsa 0.5.11 for my SB Live! 5.1. but it gives me the following message during modprobe: /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/misc/snd-card-emu10k1.o: init_module: No such device Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including

[newbie] Complaint to microsoft

2001-09-03 Per discussione Paul
Hi all, If you have time and a PDF reader, take a look at http://www.epic.org/privacy/consumer/MS_complaint.pdf It is the complaint that a load of privacy organizations filed against M$ because of the unclear goings on with Win XP and the possible exploit of personal information that people

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 19:35:17 +1200 skinky [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: I use kppp in KDE and it works fine, however I can't for the life of me get Gnome ppp (in Gnome) to work - I always get the error message the pppdaemon has died unexpectedly. Gave up on that one weeks ago and

Re: [newbie] OT - Hardware Dimensions

2001-09-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Franki wrote: If you have an AT board and case, the power supply has a seperate on/off switch that cuts the power from the motherboard directly... (an AT board has a power plug to the board that is made up of two seperate plugs.) Just a few points: 1. Just to make it clear, an AT

RE: [newbie] Re: Domain name??

2001-09-03 Per discussione Franki
in postfix, (assuming that you are using postfix...) open /etc/postfix/main.cf for editing... look for the myorigin =$myhostname line and change it to: myorigon = $mydomain that will help no end also, make sure that the line inet_interfaces = all is not hashed out... (and

[newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-03 Per discussione Bill Cole and Virginia Morton
Having upgraded from 7.1 to 8.0 I wanted to change a couple of kernel settings and so typed in (at root) make menuconfig. The message returned was No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop. I also tried xconfig with the same result. I don't understand this because I had no trouble doing this

[newbie] bash: java: command not found

2001-09-03 Per discussione antoine rivoire
hi there, sorry about this again, i know there has been some traffic on this subject before but none of it seemed to do anything for me. everything used to work fineon my puter until i mucked up the system badly and decided to reinstall the whole thing. but i don't seem to get java to work

Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found

2001-09-03 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
did you set PATH correctly after you insatlled the jdk? hi there, sorry about this again, i know there has been some traffic on this subject before but none of it seemed to do anything for me. everything used to work fineon my puter until i mucked up the system badly and decided to reinstall

Re: [newbie] Need to start different window mgr

2001-09-03 Per discussione Dave Sherman
On 02 Sep 2001 16:40:40 -0400, Steve wrote: When you run 'startx', your specified window manager will be used. Dave Thanks very much Dave, after waiting a few hours for my download to finish, I'm happily starting icewm from runlevel 3 without any gnome. Thanks for your help! Great

Re: [newbie] how to play mov files?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Dave Sherman
On 02 Sep 2001 20:40:53 -0500, Jeremy Davidson wrote: Seems to me I once got a mov file to play in Netscape. It didn't have any playback controls (just a box centered within the working area), but it worked (don't remember if it had sound or not -- was having soundcard troubles at the

Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found

2001-09-03 Per discussione antoine rivoire
valerie, excuse my lack of knowledge, but i do i do this? i feel terribly stupid now :) On Monday 03 September 2001 08:52, you wrote: did you set PATH correctly after you insatlled the jdk? hi there, sorry about this again, i know there has been some traffic on this subject before

[newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
how to i make mozzila handle pdf properly? i want to be able to click on a link and view the file w/o having to download and open w/ xpdf. thanx. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Paul
how to i make mozzila handle pdf properly? i want to be able to click on a link and view the file w/o having to download and open w/ xpdf. thanx. If the config is anything like Netscape, you should add an application to the helper-applications in the preferences, type probably x/pdf or

Re: [newbie] can't access scanner (USB)

2001-09-03 Per discussione Renato Tognaccini
Peter Rymshaw wrote: I'm dual booting with W98, trying to make full switch to Linux step by step. I have a Visioneer 6200 USB scanner which Linux does not seem to be able to recognize. (The USB shows up in Mandrake Control Centerr, but no scanner.) I installed all RPMs named SANE and now have a

Re: [newbie] bash: java: command not found

2001-09-03 Per discussione antoine rivoire
sorry valerie, i did a bit of looking, and i found out how you do that, and it works. thanks. On Monday 03 September 2001 08:52, you wrote: did you set PATH correctly after you insatlled the jdk? hi there, sorry about this again, i know there has been some traffic on this subject before

Re: [newbie] how do i watch a movie on kde?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa
update on my situation: xmps now plays mp3. with mpeg it only outputs sound but no picture avi's, divx will cause it to dump unless i create a sample playlist and put all this in and get no response - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbie [EMAIL

[newbie] IBM thinkpad 760EL and X

2001-09-03 Per discussione Rathgeb, Mathew:
HI All, I need some help getting mandrake 8.0 to run on an old thinkpad. I have Mandrake running ok from console but cant get the x windows to give me anything other that a horrible scrambled screen output. The laptop is running a Trident Cyber 9320 chipset with 1 meg ov video mem. The

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lanman
Wwl Mark, Since you mentioned it ! LOL ! ( Nah, no references to the stupid comment!) Just a quik tip, never operate heavy equipment (ie; a mouse or keyboard) without having a substantial amount of your favorite Columbian beverage inside. Besides, you'll run better than a Pentium (

Re: [newbie] Kernel Make Commands

2001-09-03 Per discussione A V Flinsch
On Sunday 02 September 2001 08:16 pm, you wrote: Having upgraded from 7.1 to 8.0 I wanted to change a couple of kernel settings and so typed in (at root) make menuconfig. The message returned was No rule to make target 'menuconfig'. Stop. I also tried xconfig with the same result. I don't

Re: [newbie] Modem won't work after kernel upgrade

2001-09-03 Per discussione Michael
Try re-installing your modem. It works for me. Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] how to add ttf?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 17:57, Pun Kuan Tou wrote: ¦b 2001 ¤E¤ë 3 ¬P´Á¤@ 14:40¡A±z¼g¹D: On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 13:34, Pun Kuan Tou wrote: when I used mkttfdir to add some turetype fonts, It only have medium type fonts, no bold or italic. How can I add some bold and italic fonts ? Bold

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
oops...never mind...found it. coffee hadn't started to work yet. stupid me... -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box

RE: [newbie] OT - Hardware Dimensions

2001-09-03 Per discussione Rick Commo
There are some other differenced between an AT and ATX board. The AT boards are an older design and used the older, large diameter keyboard socket (5 or 8 pins). They also used COM1 for the mouse. The ATX motherboards on the other hand use the modern 6 pin mini-din connectors for the mouse and

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:38, Valerie Cheng wrote: how to i make mozzila handle pdf properly? i want to be able to click on a link and view the file w/o having to download and open w/ xpdf. thanx. Go to adobe.com and get their Acrobat reader. Like the Windos version, it has a Netscape plug-in,

Re: [newbie] I need libraries for KDE 22

2001-09-03 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001 01:38, Alex K wrote: Hello Guys, Does someone have any idea where I can find these libraries: libSDL.so.0 libpcreposix.so.0 libpcre.so.0 xanim apmd I need them for KDE 22. I have LM 80. I found on cd's just apmd. I tried to use Software manager but it's really a

Re: [newbie] Mysterious Mouse pointer - Please Help!

2001-09-03 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:27 am, Rick Commo escribió: But fundamentally, I've always been attached to Mandrake so yesterday I installed MandrakeLinux 8.1b2 - a *really* sweet process incidentally! I found that I had to remove my mouse, which is a Logitech MarbleMan track-ball, from the

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Skippipix
well, you could use mandrakeexpert.com annoyance if the web site worked anyhow. i've been trying to fix a problem for 2 days now and the web site locks up my browser everytime i try to submit my question. /annoyance i like mandrake their product -- but sometimes good help *is* impossible to

[newbie] Firewall/networking tutorial?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Ben Bayer
Hi all, I want to set up an old computer I installed mandrake 8 on as a firewall for my main PC. Does anyone know of a howto, forum discussion, book, or article that might help me get started networking and firewalling? Thanks, Ben Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go

Re: [newbie] I need libraries for KDE 22

2001-09-03 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:38 am, Alex K escribió: Hello Guys, Does someone have any idea where I can find these libraries: libSDL.so.0 libpcreposix.so.0 libpcre.so.0 xanim apmd http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ and enter the above as search terms. You may find 'Mandrake'

[newbie] StarOffice can't find sofficerc

2001-09-03 Per discussione Ben Bayer
Hi all, I recently reinstalled Mandrake 8 on an old computer. After installing staroffice in the user home directory, I ran staroffice, but instead of starting it ran a repair program, telling me I needed sofficerc in ~/office52/user/sofficerc. Well, sofficerc is there alright, but

[newbie] bugs - was: Mysterious Mouse pointer - Please Help!

2001-09-03 Per discussione Rick Commo
Thanks for the reply! And it brings up a good point. Where can I find known bugs and where should I send what I think are bugs? -rick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:26 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
and that site would be where? -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Arthur H. Johnson II wrote: You can download the RPMS from a Ximian FTP mirror. Arthur H. Johnson II [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Linux Box http://www.linuxbox.nu On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Charles A. Punch

Re: [newbie] access permissions, please help

2001-09-03 Per discussione skinky
Perhaps editing your /etc/fstab file might help (after making a backup copy first). The line in my file for the CD-ROM drive is as follows: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Note, this was done automatically on a new installation of LM8.0 just the other day and

RE: [newbie] Mysterious Mouse pointer - Please Help!

2001-09-03 Per discussione Rick Commo
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joe Burks Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:29 AM ... I have an optical intellimouse connected through a Belkin KVM Switch (a cool little device that let's me hook up 4 computers to just one keyboard,

[newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

2001-09-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
I know this is at least slightly off topic (well, it's a newbie question, maybe not a Linux question) ;-) I'd like to make sense of the way times are reported in email. I'm in the Eastern (U.S.) Time Zone, with Daylight Savings in effect. Just a few minutes (3:38 PM) ago I sent myself a test

[newbie] enabling Disk quotas

2001-09-03 Per discussione Julio Rodríguez
hi everyone, I wan't to know how can I enable disk quotas for my filesystem... I am running linux Mandrake with Kernel 2.4.3 Thanks. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] HowTO patch

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lionel Pitaru
Hello Call me dummy, but, after reading the man page of patch I sill can't make it owrk well. I'm using Mandrake 8.0 and BlackBox 0.61.1 as my window manager, without any other desktop manager. So I have a lot of modularised and light weight patchs for my window manager. What I have to do with

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
Paul - i set up netscape before using application/pdf w/ xpdf %s and it worked. but it didn't work w/ mozilla. nothing happens when i try to open a pdf file. If the config is anything like Netscape, you should add an application to the helper-applications in the preferences, type probably

[newbie] CD Writer

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lionel Pitaru
Hello everyone Some one know of a robust application to write CDs R-RW? (I'm using BlackBox-0.61.1 and Mandrake 8.0) Thanks Lionel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

2001-09-03 Per discussione d
LURKER here, if they are four hours ahead, you would NOT Subtract the four hours. Look at a globe of the earth and see that if they are ahead, you ADD and if they are the other way you would Subtract. In California they are behind you by four hours so you Subtract the hours, because it is

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione d
LURKER here, below is what I think on this. At 01:22 PM 9/3/01, you wrote: skinky wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 10:14, Admin wrote: [snip] One more thing, I keep reading of a program called Kppp. I can't find in my system to safe my life. I have checked under installed s/w

RE: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lex Middelberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: 03 September 2001 09:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support. snip Everybody, Ever' once in a while I feel compelled to post

RE: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Lex Middelberg
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of civileme Sent: 04 September 2001 01:48 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support. Well what do you need support for? Write to me. I will respond. Civileme

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Monday 03 September 2001 21:56, Tom Brinkman wrote: Ever' once in a while I feel compelled to post this opinion. Most problems are _USER_, then software applications, then the OS, even if it's Windoze. I'd place the USER fault at about 80+%, apps maybe ~10% True, true. I've lost count

Re: [newbie] Getting closer to a working modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione Ben Bayer
Admin, Getting a modem to work in Linux can be a pain. I have an internal Actiontec real modem, and whenever I switch it around from one computer to another, I have to follow this basic sequence: Plug in, boot up In a terminal: cat /proc/pci Examine for the modem, noting the first I/O

Re: [newbie] Getting closer to a working modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione etharp
not to seem like the wise a$$ I uassly am, but we are not typing ttySX in this space are we? 4. ln -s ttySXenter I needs a number to corrasponde to the correct com port in Linux where the X is should be ttyS0 for com1, ttyS1 for com2, ttyS2 for com3, etc. On Monday 03 September 2001 17:24,

Re: [newbie] Well, Hell

2001-09-03 Per discussione etharp
Ahhh,,, come on if you at least give us some clues, we might be able to waste your time,,, err,, get you connected to the net, after all some of use are connected thru Mandrake to the internet. (damn how I wish I had gotten this mail when I had dual booted into winders, but ever

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione etharp
LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest info, I will keep on posting at the top and welcome any one it bothers to either hit the

[newbie] problems with partitions

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mare y Guille
Hello, i Install Madrake 8 today. All work well, but in Windows something is wrong. I have two HD, one of 12 G and one of 8 gb. I install Linux y an 4 gb partition of the 8 Hd, but windows still recognize 8 GB. Why? How can I change it? Thank You Guillermo Movia Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione skinky
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 07:56, you wrote: Everybody, Ever' once in a while I feel compelled to post this opinion. Most problems are _USER_, then software applications, then the OS, even if it's Windoze. I'd place the USER fault at about 80+%, apps maybe ~10% (more if it's

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

2001-09-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
d wrote: LURKER here, if they are four hours ahead, you would NOT Subtract the four hours. Look at a globe of the earth and see that if they are ahead, you ADD and if they are the other way you would Subtract. In California they are behind you by four hours so you Subtract the hours,

[newbie] (no subject)

2001-09-03 Per discussione Gonzalix le Druide
Thank you very much, Jim. How to obtain LM 8, please ? regards Jim Kempton wrote: Any of the recent ATI cards will work fine. For cheapness, try the SIS range or the Cirrus Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

2001-09-03 Per discussione d
Lurker here with a little different perspective on what you are seeing. They are attempting to let you know your local time is four hours after GMT. That is GMT less 4 hours to get your local time. NOT your time less four hours to get GMT. You wrote: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:38:00 -0400

RE: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
Actually this one is rather obvious... Just DON'T auto allocate. The installer is VERY confused because you are trying to install everything on a secondary hard drive. The boot loader wants to be on the primary, as does the /boot partition. You CAN do this, but Lilo (afaik grub doesn't do

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
sure will! as soon as i can get the entire download finished. seems everyone in the family needed to check their mail everytime i would resume the FTP transfer. as soon as I saw that the installer was just a small script that would connect to another server and grab the packages i new i might

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione d
LURKER here again, I do NOT know anything about this system but some thingys are referenced differently in different WM. I do not know the differences just wanting to put some fodor out there for people (mainly NEWBY) to think about. I did NOT know you could access the kppp from Gnome.

Re: [newbie] can't access scanner (USB)

2001-09-03 Per discussione Peter Rymshaw
Thanks Renato. But my problems appear to be more difficult. The Visioneer scanner is not supported at all, and now I'm having problems with my second choice--a Umax Astra 1220P Parellel Port that is slow, I had replaced with the Visioneer USB, and is *supposed* to work fine with Linux. ---

Re: [newbie] access permissions, please help

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
skinky wrote: Perhaps editing your /etc/fstab file might help (after making a backup copy first). The line in my file for the CD-ROM drive is as follows: /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 Note, this was done automatically on a new installation of LM8.0 just

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Mon, 03 Sep 2001 15:47:58 -0500 d [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: Is not the kppp in Gnome called gppp? I do not have my Linux up at this time, having some problems with my LILO. Two separate programs [as Kedit and gedit are separate]. Though I've

Re: [newbie] Ximian Gnome

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Since this Gnome thing is relatively new to me could you clue me in a little as to what exactly this anti-aliasing thing is all about? TIA -- daRcmaTTeR =/\=??? |%C++ Beware of little sins. Mosquitoes drink more blood than lions. Author unknown

[newbie] ftp problems

2001-09-03 Per discussione Gonzalo Medina
hi list, i have problems with the ftp service, i configure a server and when i try to connect the service told me Conection close by remote server What i did wrong??? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-09-03 Per discussione Scott
xcdroast On Monday 03 September 2001 16:35, you wrote: Hello everyone Some one know of a robust application to write CDs R-RW? (I'm using BlackBox-0.61.1 and Mandrake 8.0) Thanks Lionel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1;

Re: [newbie] Dumb Email Time Question

2001-09-03 Per discussione Randy Kramer
d wrote: Lurker here with a little different perspective on what you are seeing. They are attempting to let you know your local time is four hours after GMT. That is GMT less 4 hours to get your local time. NOT your time less four hours to get GMT. You wrote: Mon, 03 Sep 2001

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
etharp wrote: LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest info, I will keep on posting at the top and welcome any one it bothers

Re: [newbie] StarOffice can't find sofficerc

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I recently reinstalled Mandrake 8 on an old computer. After installing staroffice in the user home directory, I ran staroffice, but instead of starting it ran a repair program, telling me I needed sofficerc in ~/office52/user/sofficerc. Well, sofficerc is

[newbie] ownership of /var/log/messages

2001-09-03 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
In Mandrake 8.0 messages are owned by root and read by group adm. By making one a member of adm group one can access it for reading. In RH7.1 linux it is not so. What all things to modify so that file is having -rwxr-- root adm permissions. I went through syslogs, syslog.conf. But I

Re: [newbie] Firewall/networking tutorial?

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Ben Bayer wrote: Hi all, I want to set up an old computer I installed mandrake 8 on as a firewall for my main PC. Does anyone know of a howto, forum discussion, book, or article that might help me get started networking and firewalling? Thanks, Ben Ben, There is a howto on your

Re: [newbie] Newbie still having problems with modem

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
d wrote: LURKER here, below is what I think on this. At 01:22 PM 9/3/01, you wrote: skinky wrote: On Monday 03 September 2001 10:14, Admin wrote: [snip] One more thing, I keep reading of a program called Kppp. I can't find in my system to safe my life. I have checked

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Valerie Cheng wrote: how to i make mozzila handle pdf properly? i want to be able to click on a link and view the file w/o having to download and open w/ xpdf. thanx. You will need to make sure you've got the plugin for this loaded in your installation of Mozilla. This can usually be

Re: [newbie] viewing pdf in mozilla

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Valerie Cheng wrote: Paul - i set up netscape before using application/pdf w/ xpdf %s and it worked. but it didn't work w/ mozilla. nothing happens when i try to open a pdf file. If the config is anything like Netscape, you should add an application to the helper-applications in the

[newbie] a stupid ftp server question

2001-09-03 Per discussione Linux Newbie
Sorry for the really dumb question, I cannot seem to find anything that tells me why my ftp server says: $ ftp kittypuss.org ftp: connect: Connection refused ftp I have installed wu-ftp and then tried pro-ftpd and nothing seems to fix this, I have noticed that when I shut down the server, the

Re: [newbie] enabling Disk quotas

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Julio Rodríguez wrote: hi everyone, I wan't to know how can I enable disk quotas for my filesystem... I am running linux Mandrake with Kernel 2.4.3 Thanks. I've found disk quota to be a bit of a pain, but if you really want to enable them and you're running Mandrake 8 then run

Re: [newbie] CD Writer

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Lionel Pitaru wrote: Hello everyone Some one know of a robust application to write CDs R-RW? (I'm using BlackBox-0.61.1 and Mandrake 8.0) Thanks Lionel Lionel, I've been using Gtoaster for all my CD burning and it works very nicely for all my CD burning needs. -- daRcmaTTeR

Re: [newbie] problems with partitions

2001-09-03 Per discussione Mark Weaver
Mare y Guille wrote: Hello, i Install Madrake 8 today. All work well, but in Windows something is wrong. I have two HD, one of 12 G and one of 8 gb. I install Linux y an 4 gb partition of the 8 Hd, but windows still recognize 8 GB. Why? How can I change it? Thank You Guillermo Movia

Re: [newbie] The myth that is Mandrake Support.

2001-09-03 Per discussione Steve
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:36:02PM -0400, Mark Weaver wrote: etharp wrote: LOOOK A TOP POSTER!! just me getting my... yayas out. I have had a problem sendin from -kmail for about a week now. and since I personally do not like to scan throu the whole e-mail for the latest info, I

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