Re: [newbie-it] mandrake 8.1

2001-11-13 Per discussione Stefano Salari
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ciao, qualcuno di voi sa dirmi un sito dal quale posso scaricare la mandrake 8.1 ? ciao e grazie alessandro ..Oltre al sito che ti hanno indicato, su Linux Pratico di questo mese c'e' la Mandrake 8.1 su 3 cdrom... Ciao. Steo.

Re: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom

2001-11-13 Per discussione max
--- Andrea Celli [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: max wrote: Ho installato ieri Linux Mandrake 8.1. Il sistema però non mi legge nè il cd rom nè il masterizzatore in /mnt/cdrom e /mnt/cdrom2. In DrakeConf ho visto che il masterizzatore è registrato in due modi diversi, in uno con la

Re: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andrea Celli
max wrote: ... li hai montati prima di leggerli? Il mndk-8.1 hanno dovuto togliere il supermount per incompatibilita` con il nuovo kernel. ciao, Andrea Perdona la mia ignoranza. /mnt è il supermount? Cosa vuol dire montarli? Come si fa? Quando hai un

R: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom

2001-11-13 Per discussione Enrico Piccinini
Spero che l'amico Max sia riuscito a risolvere i suoi problemi con i CDrom. Io no Ho il masterizzatore che non c'è verso di farlo funzionare!!! Già in fase di installazione (se tento di installare linux dal masterizzatore) me lo riconosce a mi avvia l'installazione, ma poi... mi chiede di

Re: R: [newbie-it] mdk 8.1 non legge Cd Rom

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Enrico Piccinini wrote: Spero che l'amico Max sia riuscito a risolvere i suoi problemi con i CDrom. Io no Ho il masterizzatore che non c'è verso di farlo funzionare!!! Già in fase di installazione (se tento di installare linux dal masterizzatore) me lo riconosce a mi avvia

[newbie-it] Problemi con chipset sis 630

2001-11-13 Per discussione Maguolo, Alessandro
Aiutatemi, ho installato Mandrake 8.0 ssu un portatile olivetti xtrema 4000 con chipset integrato sis630 e non riesco a far funzionare il modem e la scheda video. ° su http://www.tim.it, con iTim, puoi incontrare amici in chat

Re: [newbie-it] DCOP server

2001-11-13 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il 19:45, lunedì 12 novembre 2001, hai scritto: [CUT] Il 19:03, lunedì 12 novembre 2001, hai scritto: Provato a controllare le proprietà del file? Luko Quale, scusa... quello che dovrebbe essere cancellato? E' appena risuccesso. Il file (che dovrebbe essere stato rimosso

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Per discussione blinddog
Thanx for everyones help, go figure it now works, I dropped the file from Konqueror onto the printer icon and it printed with AbiWord formatting, I then went into Abi Word and as someone else stated it printed the last page only?? But I can request whichever page want and it will print that

RE: [newbie] mounting smbfs

2001-11-13 Per discussione belcoop
I did not have a clue neither. By accident, I stumbled upon harddrake disc mounting. It seems to be a program only for repartitioning, but it does more with samba.. There you can define the parts of different windows computers you want to access and it installs without a problem. . Geert

Re: [newbie] Installing hardare

2001-11-13 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:12:24 +0530 Mario Michael da Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: daim !! i must have missed it then. and all this time used to install wvdial from a RH 6.x cd, and for mdk 8.1 i had to compile wvdial from the sources. I have the downloaded 3 cd set of mdk 8.1, where can i

[newbie] Re: Mouse Scrolling Distance

2001-11-13 Per discussione SoloCDM
g stated the following: SoloCDM wrote: Anuerin G. Diaz stated the following: SoloCDM wrote: While at the console (not X), what settings make the mouse scroll further from top to bottom and left to right? I dont think mouse works in the console mode unless you are using

[newbie] filesharing and firewalling and ftp services HELP PLEASE!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Neil R Porter
Hi all I have LM 8.1 setup with an adsl connection networked and sharing the net connection to 2 win machines. I'm having problems setting up samba and firewalling and ftp services properly. 1) How can I tell which processes are running... I have read about samba and learn that it doesn't

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they work on ? I have 4.0. Cheers Jamie Which nvidia driver

Re: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-13 Per discussione pesarif
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001 19:40, _nasturtium wrote: It works and you know it... The NT Loaded stopped Linux from booting and you know it. If it doesn't work then remake it. I've tried it and it works perfectly on a Pentium II 350... And don't forget I happen to be an Internet Security expert

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] LOLI LILO (long live lilo)

2001-11-13 Per discussione pesarif
On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 02:35, Dan Butler wrote: If LILO is so damn great, why is GRUB so much easier to work with? Does a better job and is easier to manage. I believe in working smarter, not harder. Thus, I have to agree that LILO can be improved. I am sticking with Grub. And I work in the

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Robert MacLean
jamie, install them as you would the offical nvidia ones. they will work fine on X4.0 hth ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa
www.nvidia.com has the latest drivers- Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:00 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
cheers i'll give it a go later tonight. Jamie From: Robert MacLean [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:56:59 +0200 jamie, install them as you would the offical nvidia ones. they will

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Robert MacLean
they do not have the 8.1 drivers. the only place for 8.1 drivers is off of mandrakeuser ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Mohammed Arafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 12:17 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [newbie] filesharing and firewalling and ftp services HELP PLEASE!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:43, Neil R Porter wrote: Hi all Hi... You got your ADSL working then ? I have LM 8.1 setup with an adsl connection networked and sharing the net connection to 2 win machines. I'm having problems setting up samba and firewalling and ftp services properly.

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:00, Jamie Kerwick wrote: Just about to download the drivers at mandrake user. How do i install them, do i just do the same as per the official nVidia instructions but use the mandrake user files in place of their own?? Also which version of Xfree86 will they

[newbie] Sound Card: Opti PnP

2001-11-13 Per discussione Hugo Ferreira
Hi, First and foremost, I would like to apologise for the lengthy mail, but I am sure those that are willing to help me will find the info. important. Please note that there may be some incorrections because I am on another location/machine at the moment and am writing this from some notes I

[newbie] DVD Installation help

2001-11-13 Per discussione JDRadio
DVD drive installation help needed. I have just pulled my old cdrom and replaced it with a friends spare dvd drive and can't get Mandrake 8.1 to recognize it as dvd. After swapping out the cdrom Mandrake and HardDrake did not detect new devices for DVD but kept the cdrom settings. Hard Drake

Re: [newbie] xawtv recording

2001-11-13 Per discussione Valerie Cheng
Yes, I do hear sound. I've been using xawtv to watch tv for a while already and there is sound. There is also sound when it's recording, just the avi file has no sound. Mohammed Arafa wrote Valerie, did u hear the sound output before u began recording? if not did u check to see the sound was

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jamie Kerwick
Just noticed that you said that these files are patched, what are they patches for ? BTW do you know if these drivers work for GeForce 3 cards, i heard that some of the earlier drivers had problems ?? cheers Jamie From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Xlib: extension RENDER missing

2001-11-13 Per discussione Robert MacLean
they work fine on all geforce cards he was speaking about other patches on the mandrakeuser site, as far as I understood it. ___ Robert MacLean - Original Message - From: Jamie Kerwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Per discussione windstar
Hi folks, I'm a newbie and wanted to install mandrake 8.1 - it don't work :-( There is a PC with a 200 CPU, 1,2 gb hdd, 24 CD-ROM and 64 MB ram. The hdd is empty - fresh born. I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the

Re: [newbie] SoundBlaster 16 work only after I run sndconfig

2001-11-13 Per discussione Terry
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 08:40 am, you wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001 15:03:01 -0800 Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, all I clean installed Mandrake 8.1 on a P166 box to set it up as a mp3 box. Everything works alright, except the sound card. The sound card only works after I run

Re: [newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Per discussione Hugo Ferreira
Hi, I'm a newbie too but I have had problems installing from a CD (Win95 installation). After many hours wasted, I came to the conclsion that the CD ROM was broken. If you can, I suggeste your conform that the CD, CD ROM, IDE or disk are operational. Try installing NT 4 for example. The

Re: [newbie] fat32 vs reiserfs for storage

2001-11-13 Per discussione Rick [Kitty5]
unless you want to access your file from winows and from your post, you don't, there is really no point in storing your files on fat32. As far as the disk usage goes, on a 8 GB partition, the smallest block on a fat 32 partition was 8 kb i think. so a 10 kb file would use up 16 kb on you

RE: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 09:13, Carl Lafferty wrote: You are on the right track. By fedault, Mandrake creates an fstab entry for the floppy with the fat (DOS) filesystem. You can create another fstab entry for the same device (using the ext2 filesystem), just give it a different name (and

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Nicolas gomez's words, written Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:35:36 -0300 Did you set up the DNS servers in your settings? That is vital for stuff like that. Paul Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run

[newbie] burning ISO CDs

2001-11-13 Per discussione Gronbach, Paul
Hi all, Thanks for the responses and help. The software I had is what came with the CD, i.e. DirectCD. I now have NeroBurn; it is working great. Once again thanks. Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound, Iowa Mold Tooling Co., Inc.that is why

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by

Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dave Sherman
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 08:24, Carl Lafferty wrote: it occured to me the other day to try mounting a floppy on which I had created an EXT2 file system. I can mount the floppy with mount /dev/fd0 /floppy -t ext2 as root and things work OK but under no circumstances can I mount it from my

[newbie] Abiword abnormal exit

2001-11-13 Per discussione Newbie
Hmm what happened here? abiword AbiWord_d: manager_impl.cc:30: void free_lt_handle (void *): Assertion `s == 0' failed. /usr//bin/abiword: line 68: 10605 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/AbiWord_d $@ It printed this on the console when it just disappeared. Want to buy your Pack

[newbie] Once again MR8 on PPC Open Firmware

2001-11-13 Per discussione gunner carstens
I try once again to get an answer as I didn't get any answer the first time and this problem is bugging me completely to get Mandrake 8.0 up and booting om my iMac 333, rev b (I think): Installation seems to have been alright. (Two OS'es MacOS 8.6 and MR8) But I get no bootprompt on restart.

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione shane
the next place to look i would bet is dns, do you have it configured? can you ping a site by ip but not name? can you for example go to 207.200.81.139 but not dmoz.org? if so the trouble is likely dns On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:35, you spoke unto me thusly: When I run Kppp, the daemon

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione tek1
hi andre! thx very much for the advice! it worked! :) out of curiosity, are you using postgres as mandrake pre-installed it (in /var/lib/pgsql/data) or have you changed the location and create your own db/installation? thx again! :) At 11:09 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: On Tuesday 13

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 09:35, you wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ

Re: [newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 15:49:57 +0100 windstar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm a newbie and wanted to install mandrake 8.1 - it don't work :-( There is a PC with a 200 CPU, 1,2 gb hdd, 24 CD-ROM and 64 MB ram. The hdd is empty - fresh born. I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and

[newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Nicolas gomez
Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online I do not know what

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:18, you wrote: hi andre! thx very much for the advice! it worked! :) out of curiosity, are you using postgres as mandrake pre-installed it (in /var/lib/pgsql/data) or have you changed the location and create your own db/installation? thx again! :) At

Re: [newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Per discussione windstar
Hi, I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( I did try with cd nothing. I did try with the bootdisk ( I made 3 of them) I did start to install win98 - it worked I did try a bootable cd with redheat

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Per discussione Gordon Burgess-Parker
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Onur Kucuk
Ng Hi Buddies! Ng I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also configured it. Ng When I run Kppp, the daemon starts and I am connected... but when I open any browser, I cannot surf on any site... I open LICQ and it doesnt connect online Ng I do

RE: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-13 Per discussione Stephen Liu
Hi Rafael, At 09:48 PM 11/11/2001 -0300, you wrote: Stephen, I didn't have that problem with Linux, but not long ago I have exactly the same problem in Windows. First I thought it was a problem with my ISP, but finally I solve this deleting the Outlook account and creating a whole new one.

Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Per discussione alex
Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems Administration Consultant Web Spinners,

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-13 Per discussione Stephen Liu
Hi Derek, At 01:19 PM 11/11/2001 +, you wrote: Sounds strange. Does it work with another mail client such as Evolution? I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving email from ISP it prompted : evolution - mail (Process. 2623)

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 01:41, you wrote: i'm trying to create a new user in postgres (createuser [user]), but when logged in as root or any other user, i get permission denied. i tried to su postgres, but it prompts me for the password, which seems to have been set by default by

Re: [newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Per discussione Mark D'voo
gnucash is an excellent finiancial management program. It reminds me of quicken. As for games, most the top games are also for linux, and those that aren't for linux ie half-life, run flawlessly under wine. I have even had success with Zoo Tycoon, a Microsoft game to run almost perfectly

Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:23, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? Pardon me for jumping in, I am off work today and thought I might help

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:51, you wrote: the next place to look i would bet is dns, do you have it configured? can you ping a site by ip but not name? can you for example go to 207.200.81.139 but not dmoz.org? if so the trouble is likely dns On Tuesday 13 November 2001 07:35, you

Re: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help

2001-11-13 Per discussione Miark
I don't think it has to be changed. You may want to ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd so that DVD-specific applications, which often look for DVDs at /dev/dvd, see DVDs using default settings. But I don't think there's anything you have to do. DVD drives are basically CD drives that can read DVDs.

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Per discussione H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:20, you wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word - Original Message - Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e.

Re: [newbie] problem with netscape6.2 bookmarks on mandrake/linux

2001-11-13 Per discussione skinky
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 18:50, tek1 wrote: | anyone have the problem when clicking on the bookmarks, that the | bookmarks pop-up menu doesn't go away and you can't do anything else in | netscape? | | thanks. Yep, seems to happen when a page is loading and you click on bookmarks. Even worse when

Re: [newbie] burning ISO CDs

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:14, you wrote: Hi all, Thanks for the responses and help. The software I had is what came with the CD, i.e. DirectCD. I now have NeroBurn; it is working great. Once again thanks. Paul W Gronbach Jr / IS Supervisor Light travels faster than sound,

[newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Per discussione Johnson, David
Folks, I'd love to ditch Windows completely, but there is still some good software that I hang on to that I think is only available for Windows. Somebody prove me wrong: Outlook with Exchange server - I run an Exchange server at the house and want to maintain the Outlook functionality. Is

Re: [newbie] Need DVD drive install help

2001-11-13 Per discussione Rob
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 12:00 pm, you wrote: I just link it to cdrom and it works like a dvd this is what I did: ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd I don't think it has to be changed. You may want to ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/dvd so that DVD-specific applications, which often look for DVDs at

[newbie] Can't upgrade Mandrake with the Single Network Firewall.

2001-11-13 Per discussione Wayne Bornall
Hi, I wanted to install the Single Network Firewall on Mandrake 8.1, but it doesn't upgrade, it replaces Mandrake 8.1 with Mandrake 7.1 and the firewall. I've noticed this after ending an incomplete install. The install is incomplete because I couldn't choose my adapter because it wasn't

[newbie] kmail filters

2001-11-13 Per discussione David
Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules Cheerz David Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie]

2001-11-13 Per discussione James R. McKenzie
Stupid question alert! Are you installing from a CDR/W drive or an old fashioned ROM drive? I've had no luck what so ever installing from my PLEXTOR 16/10/40a (ATAPI) and I've tried both LM 8.1 and RH 7.2. My cheezy/generic PINE 52x CD-ROM drive has very few troubles however. I don't know if

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione Ed Tharp
one page I found with lots 'o help is http://theory.physics.ubc.ca/ppp-linux.html; the problem may be dns or the default route setting. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:35, you wrote: Hi Buddies! I have a problem I have an external modem that LM 8.1 recognized it very well and also

Re: [newbie] Installation

2001-11-13 Per discussione Ed Tharp
did you buy the cds or burn them? sounds like a defect cd On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:06, you wrote: Hi, I put the cd no. 1 in the cd-rom and started the PC. It stoped while accessing the cd-rom. Then I made a bootdisk - the same :-( I did try with cd nothing. I did try with

Re: [newbie] It connects... but I cannot surf!!!

2001-11-13 Per discussione shane
wasn't me with the trouble, but i have noticed that also. seems that is dialup only though, since i got the dsl much less dns trouble. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 11:59, you spoke unto me thusly: Shane, another thing to try, with Earthlink/Mindspring they use contracted -- when

[newbie] boot failed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Antonio Soto
hi, i am a newbie and i am having problems installing mandrake 7.2, i did download it from the net , rigth now i am trying to install it from my hard disk but it does not work. My computer specifications are the following: - win98 version a - celeron 533 mhz - 5 gb free space - ibm model pc300 -

Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome

2001-11-13 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? Run Gimp, there's an option for it in there somewhere. Paul -- What we think, we become. -Buddha http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 -

Re: [newbie] kmail filters

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jim Kempton
Not sure about NOT downloading, but you can filter it straight to trash. Take a look at the filter options, dead easy. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 20:32, David wrote: Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules Cheerz David --

Re: [newbie] Some Windows hang-ons...

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jesse C. Chang
Mark D'voo wrote: I have even had success with Zoo Tycoon, a Microsoft game to run almost perfectly under wineX www.transgaming.com (WineX is wine with directX support). Anyone know if EverQuest will run under WineX? That's really about all that keeps me from getting rid of Windows

RE: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome

2001-11-13 Per discussione Mark Johnson
is it possible to take a screen shot using a command line utility? -Original Message- From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome In reply to Søren Neigaard's words, written 13

Re: [newbie] Can't upgrade Mandrake with the Single Network Firewall.

2001-11-13 Per discussione Ed Tharp
and , may I ask why you would want to do that? if you have 8.1, run InteractiveBastille to set up the firewall.. SNF is a earlier (some saymore stable) kernel, without all the bells and whistles a regular Mandrake Distro comes with. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 15:24, you wrote: Hi, I

RE: [newbie] boot failed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Ferris, Thomas M
What you need to do is, burn the ISO file onto a CDR. Then put that into your cdrom drive and make your system boots off of the CD first. Then from there the Mandrake CD should boot up. Then just go threw the steps of the installation. I would do the recommended install. Once you get to the

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Idea.listBT
Thanks all. Will follow thse suggestions Dave S. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] kmail filters

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 20:32, David wrote: Hi Can Kmail be set up via the filters NOT to download an email that complies to a set of filter rules No. KMail does not see a mail until it is already downloaded. However there is an application called Mailfilter which you can run to

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
A search on Sourceforge for the word 'Autocad' throws up 10 projects of various types. One of them ought to do the trick. On Tuesday 13 November 2001 22:59, Ed Tharp wrote: as far as mail goes... try Kmail, and on the file menu, imports On Tuesday 13 November 2001 17:44, you wrote: I am

Re: [newbie] Kmail cannot receive email but can send email

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 14:57, Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Derek, At 01:19 PM 11/11/2001 +, you wrote: Sounds strange. Does it work with another mail client such as Evolution? I think that most likely the problem came from my OS - Mandrake 8.1 When I tried Evolution, on retrieving

Re: [newbie] What have Mandrake done to cdrom/floppy devices?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 13:51, you wrote: Dear all, I have recently updated to LM8.1 on my office PC and my laptop. It seems like Mandrake have taken a step backwards regarding accessing cdrom/floppy drives, which worked fine for me in LM8.0! Yes. They rushed the 8.1 release, and it

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Per discussione tek1
i too am looking to switch from my win2k system over to linux, as my system has crashed or been corrupted (undeletable files, programs, massive application errors, corrupted eudora emails/netscape bookmarks, etc.). glad for the staroffice6beta alternative to bring over all the ms office dox,

Re: [newbie] Screenshot in Gnome

2001-11-13 Per discussione Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 13 Nov 2001 21:53:04 +0100 Søren Neigaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I take a screenshot of my desktop in Gnome? You can use the SCreenShooter panel applet. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet. The Internet: Designed for

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione tek1
hi andre! thx for the DISPLAY warning. can you explain why this was necessary? thx! :) good luck with the creating the tables! my next step too... :) At 14:05 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: Hi tek! Nope. I'm using the pre-installed version. Btw, shortly after I sent the last reply, I

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 16:44, you wrote: I am still a captive of Windows, mainly because I depend on Autocad and I have a relatively huge mail archive stuck in Outlook Express. snip So, does anyone know of: a) a prog that will convert OE files b) a draghting package similar to Autocad

Re: [newbie] postgres - postgres user password?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 18:53, you wrote: hi andre! thx for the DISPLAY warning. can you explain why this was necessary? thx! :) good luck with the creating the tables! my next step too... :) At 14:05 01/11/13 -0500, you wrote: Hi tek! Nope. I'm using the pre-installed

[newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download

2001-11-13 Per discussione Newbie
Whenever I hit a web page with a midi file, the web page disappears and http://kittypuss.org/dialogue.gif appears and stays there. What is going wrong please? Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Outlook Express to Linux - how can I - also Draughting package needed

2001-11-13 Per discussione Tim Holmes
From what I've read, and what I've played with, you don't need to make the Outlook Express mail file anything. You should be able to use it as is, and then port it to something you can use in *nix. http://freshmeat.net/projects/mbx2mbox/ I was looking for something to port Eudora Pro mail

[newbie] web page woe's

2001-11-13 Per discussione freeman
I have a little problem. I set up a web page on my linux mandrake 8.0 server and am unable to get to it remotely. I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as

Re: [newbie] web page woe's

2001-11-13 Per discussione Travis Olds
On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can connect to it on a small local network (3 winblows systems and a mandrake server) by typing in the ip of the local address (192.xxx.x.x) or the external ip(24.x.x.x)but as soon as I try to connect from out side ie work there is no trace. no

Re: [newbie] xawtv recording

2001-11-13 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 10:53, Valerie Cheng wrote: Hi, Has anyone tried recording with xawtv? I tried recording to avi file... But it's always sound-less. I'm playing w/ xine and I thought it might be a xine problem... but I tried playing in windoz and it still didn't have sound. So I

Re: [newbie] web page woe's

2001-11-13 Per discussione Tim Holmes
24-net... which one? Are you running off a RoadRunner connection? They closed down port 80 after the CodeRed fiasco. So you'd have to change the port you use for your webserver in httpd.conf to something like port 90. That's what most people do. http://name.dns.com:90/ is how you'd access

Re: [newbie] CDRW problem

2001-11-13 Per discussione Lee Roberts
At 11:35 PM 11/12/2001 -0400, skidley wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2001, Lee Roberts wrote: At 08:03 AM 11/7/2001 -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 06 November 2001 11:22 pm, Lee Roberts wrote: I added append hdc=ide-scsi to lilo.conf but I still can't find the drive with cdrecord -scanbus

Re: [newbie] Mounting EXT2 Floppy

2001-11-13 Per discussione Michael D. Viron
At 02:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: Michael D. Viron wrote: Make sure that the user is a part of the 'floppy' group. Otherwise you will not be able to mount the floppy as a non-root user. How do you do this? edit /etc/groups, and add the username after the last : in whatever group

Re: [newbie] Tripwire-1.3.1-1.tar.gz

2001-11-13 Per discussione Anke Max
Gidday G So what would one use in addition to (instead of) tripwire and how can things trick tripwire? Thanks Max g answered Anuerin G. Diaz on Monday, November 12, 2001 6:32 PM Anuerin G. Diaz wrote: and what does tripwire do anyway? basically, it is a file security monitor data base

[newbie] nec870 network printer

2001-11-13 Per discussione Bill Winegarden
Hi everyone, Now I'm just getting greedy. I already have a funtioning network printer, but I have moved to a different location and the closest printer is the NEC870. The first printer, I set up using CupsIPP protocol as a socket printer. It is a HP2200dnworks beautifully.

[newbie] joystick as mouse?

2001-11-13 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Does anybody have any information of using a joystick as a mouse in Linux? I'm putting a system together for an elderly person, i think that a joystick will be much more comfortable for her. Particularly, perhaps, one that went naturally back to the center. How do I set this up? -Paul

Re: [newbie] Abiword won't load this document

2001-11-13 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Abi can only officially open Microsoft Word Docs up to 98, for Me and XP Word Docs you may need to try OpenOffice.org. -Paul Rodríguez On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 17:24, Richard Wenninger wrote: Anyone else get this? It happens when opening a .doc file. I'm assuming it's a microsoft office

RE: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download

2001-11-13 Per discussione Jose M. Sanchez
You might want to look at the SBLive instructions I posted earlier... -JMS |-Original Message- |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Newbie |Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:17 PM |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: [newbie] Konqueror Help Midi download | |