Re: [newbie-it] 6 suppliche

2002-02-08 Per discussione Andrea Celli
ku68 wrote: Ho questi problemi: a) nella fase d'installazione abbiamo creato due utenti (pippo e pluto) se entro con pluto non ho problemi a scegliere Kde o Gnome o altri se entro con pippo posso entrare solo con kde o winmarker (non mi ricordo se sia esatto). Ho provato a

[newbie-it] Ricerca librerie

2002-02-08 Per discussione Giorgio Carrara
Vorrei installare Ximian con Red Carpet ed ho cominciato ma il tutto si ferma perchè non ho installate le segg. librerie, hce invece servono libspell_aspell.so.2 libaspell.so.10 se qualcuno sa dove posso andare a downloadarle e me lo comunica, mi fa un grande favore Grazie in anticipo

Re: [newbie-it] Ricerca librerie

2002-02-08 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Giorgio Carrara wrote: Vorrei installare Ximian con Red Carpet ed ho cominciato ma il tutto si ferma perchè non ho installate le segg. librerie, hce invece servono libspell_aspell.so.2 libaspell.so.10 se qualcuno sa dove posso andare a downloadarle e me lo

Re: [newbie-it] devfs

2002-02-08 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Luigi De Pascale wrote: .. A questo credo sia legato anche il mancato funzionamento della scheda audio con la vecchia configurazione. . Non ne so molto :-( So solo che vivo sereno avendo modificato il mio lilo da devfs=auto a devfs=noauto come da consigli sul sito Mandrake. :-)

[newbie-it] risoluzione console

2002-02-08 Per discussione syd
Salve a tutti, vorrei riuscire a modificare la risoluzione grafica della mia console. Con X ho 1024x768 ma questi valori non sembrano essere rispettati in modalità testo. Qualcuno conosce il file su cui poter agire? Grazie -- syd

[newbie-it] backup

2002-02-08 Per discussione Fabio Manunza
Alla lista, vale. Qualcuno sa indicarmi un interfaccia grafico, o un programma con interfaccia grafico, per eseguire dei backup? Sulla distro 8.1 avevo trovato taper, definito come programma con interfaccia user-friendly, ma non mi è sembrato molto friendly.. Attendo consigli, ma ringrazio in

[newbie-it] tiny firewall

2002-02-08 Per discussione Brunini Alessandro
Non è che qualcuno saprebbe dirmi dove stanno i files di configurazione del tiny firewall? Grazie.

[newbie-it] Winmodem e schede audio

2002-02-08 Per discussione Arwan
Ciao Luigi! Friday, February 08, 2002, 2:27:26 PM, you wrote: . LDP Ieri sera ho finalmente attivato ed utilizzato il mio winmodem ma ho avuto LDP alcune difficolta' extra a causa di questa faccenda. Il winmodem? Hai fatto partire un winmodem sotto linux? Winmodem modem interno? Dimmi dimmi

Re: [newbie] Windows machines could not find Samba server when Bastille (iptables) is 'up'

2002-02-08 Per discussione Colin Jenkins
Hello Jeroen, Friday, February 08, 2002, 6:50:29 PM, you wrote: JvdW Hi, JvdW I'm new at Linux and I've got a problem with Samba and the settings of my JvdW iptables. JvdW I'm using Bastille scripts to configure my iptables. JvdW This is the problem: when the iptables are 'up', I can't

Re: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Charles Muller
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 03:52, Jude Walker wrote: I've been using 8.0 for several months with no problem and now I'm thinking it's time to upgrade... If you are interested in trying the Ximian Desktop, their Red Carpet service really does a slick job in updating programs--including Mandrake.

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??

2002-02-08 Per discussione George Pitcher
Tomek, I don't think so. Just say that you'll join later. G - Original Message - From: Tomek Nowinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership?? Hi, Maybe I don't understand well english, but... DO

Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram

2002-02-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Dave, Thanks for your response! Randy Kramer Dave Sherman wrote: snip Agreed. Choice is always a benefit to the consumer/user. snip Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram

2002-02-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
shane wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 06:46, you spoke unto me thusly: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux has some problems. To get the performance of IE5 and Word97 on Win95 with 48 MB and a 233 MHz processor, I needed 256 MB on a 700 MHz processor (running Konqueror, primarily). (I

Re: [newbie] Operating Systems and Ram

2002-02-08 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Erylon, Thanks for your response! Randy Kramer Erylon Hines wrote: I feel I must disagree with this. IF you run the latest KDE/graphical gui you need more ram, but 256 on a reasonably up-to-date machine (700+mhz) is enough for the job. If you run an older, slower machine, and use a

RE: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Thanks for your message. Here's what I get: root.drewvogel:~$ ls -ail /dev/ide total 0 3640 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 19 17:26 ./ 10 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Dec 31 1969 ../ 10620 drwxr-xr-x1 root root0 Jan 21

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-08 Per discussione Vijay Ramachandran
If you do choose ReiserFs, please ensure that you have disk write-caching turned off (I dont know how - maybe edit bdflush parameters?) I recently experienced a lot of file corruption due to power failure on my reiserfs partitions. Please note, I did not fool around with write caching, so maybe

Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-08 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Tell him to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). Thanks for the info Ric, I would like to get the Soyo

[newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Stojs
Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover from basic stuff like installing rpms and tarballs to networking with windows and internet as an ftp server. Thanks in advance, Stojs Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?

2002-02-08 Per discussione mud
If you order PowerPack there are a few good pdf/html books included with in the cds, cheaper in the long run then buying the hard copies. These books include KDE/Gimp/Mandrake. On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one,

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover from basic stuff like installing rpms and tarballs to networking with windows and internet as an ftp server. Thanks in

Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-08 Per discussione Walter de Bruin
- Original Message - From: Marc Audard [EMAIL PROTECTED] I managed to rebuild the RPM database, while this did not improve the situation. RPMDrake always stops at 68% when reading the FTP site of LM8.0 updates. From what I gather from the Linux Usenet groups, the update function is a

[newbie] Viking Compact Flash Adapter

2002-02-08 Per discussione Paul Kraus
Any know how to install a PCMCIA Compact Flash Adapter? MDK8. PK Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] New kernel .. tips?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Damian G
Thank you all very much. i will try the RPM's out !! wish me luck ;oP see ya,. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-08 Per discussione Terry S.
Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I can't use it since I don't have an 686 processor. I have searched RPMfind.net, and they didn't have one either. Thanks! Terry Want to buy your

[newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate

2002-02-08 Per discussione Matt Harrison
I asked this before and got an answer, but now I need an answer for the answer. When I tell Software Manager to update the list of mirrors, it closes SMSomeone (sorry I can't remember who) told me to use the Cooker address. Well, if at all possible, could someone please give me an

[newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Jason Ditri
I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my machine. PIII @ 733MHz 64 MB Ram, 40 GIG HDD, With about 38 GIGs free. After I use KDE or GNOME and browse the internet for a while (maybe 20 or 30 mins), the machines starts bogging down so bad that it takes MINUTES to open new windows, check mail, open

[newbie] How to switch between gcc versions?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Chen, Ya
I installed gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.0.1 in Mandrake 8.1. The cc and cpp etc. are linked to 2.96 by default. Although only 4 or 5 links I have to change, I still want to know whether there is a single command to that. TIA Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate

2002-02-08 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:21:34 -0500 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked this before and got an answer, but now I need an answer for the answer. When I tell Software Manager to update the list of mirrors, it closes SMSomeone (sorry I can't remember who) told me to use the

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover from basic stuff like installing rpms and tarballs to networking with windows and internet as an ftp server. Running Linux, by Matt Welsh,

Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-08 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
They offer src.rpm's om the nvidia site... why not make your own rpm's? rpm --rebuild NVidia_blaah_blaah.src.rpm Greetings, Ralph Terry S. wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only one NVidia offers is an RPM for an i686, but I

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??

2002-02-08 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Tomek Nowinski wrote: Hi, Maybe I don't understand well english, but... DO I NEED TO JOIN Mandrake Club Membership (and pay it of course) to download Mandrake 8.2 Beta? Tomek No Tomek, you do not need to sign up as a member. The Mandrake Club is a way to donate some money

Re: [newbie] Speed.... Or lack of?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Jason Ditri wrote: I just installed Mandrake 8.1 on my machine. PIII @ 733MHz 64 MB Ram, 40 GIG HDD, With about 38 GIGs free. After I use KDE or GNOME and browse the internet for a while (maybe 20 or 30 mins), the machines starts bogging down so bad that it takes

Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-08 Per discussione Richard Wenninger
Try using their source rpms. The installation instruction are in the README at the bottom of this page. http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux On Friday 08 February 2002 02:07 pm, you wrote: Does anyone know where I can get the NVidia_kernel RPM for an NVidia GeForce2 MX/400? The only

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Club Membership??

2002-02-08 Per discussione Bo Rosén
fre 2002-02-08 klockan 21.44 skrev Kaj Haulrich: ftp://ftp.sunet.se and dig down to mandrake. I suppose it's there too ! It's where I got mine some weeks ago .-) Cheers, Bo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate

2002-02-08 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
Matt Harrison wrote: I asked this before and got an answer, but now I need an answer for the answer. When I tell Software Manager to update the list of mirrors, it closes SMSomeone (sorry I can't remember who) told me to use the Cooker address. Well, if at all possible, could someone

[newbie] Unsatisfied Dependancies

2002-02-08 Per discussione Mark Evans
Hi Im attempt to install mplayer in a Mandrake 8.1 system. My question is when Package Manger reports unsatisfied dependancies such as libdvdread.so.2, audiofile and libvorbis, include others where can I find which other RPM's to install to resolve the dependancies. It seems reporting the

Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-08 Per discussione Rick
OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Hmmm... At the console, rpm --help doesn't even list --rebuild (of course, it lists --rebuilddb but that's

Re: [newbie] NVidia RPMs for LM 8.1

2002-02-08 Per discussione Ralph Slooten
Hey there Rick Rick wrote: OK... I think I just learned something about RPM... Do I understand Mr. Slooten correctly? By using RPM with a --rebuild option on a SRC.RPM, you'll create a binary build of the SRC RPM?? Please call me Ralph :-) Sounds so formal... Mr. Slooten... Yes, by doing

Re: [newbie] Man--Konqueror STINKS

2002-02-08 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 07 February 2002 18:34, you wrote: http://www.theskull.com/javascript/randmidi/randmidi.html? Try this one, it made Konqueror Konq out. On Thursday 07 February 2002 05:37 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:08, you wrote: How come every dang time

[newbie] Help with pop-before-smtp

2002-02-08 Per discussione Dennis Cardinale
Hi, All. This is my first post here...hope it helps. I've spent the last few weeks setting up a mail/ftp/http server for my company using Mandrake-Linux 8.0 on a Pentium II 233 with considerable success. The server exists at the office, and ties to the internet via a 1.5 Mbps DSL line. I

Re: [newbie] mandrake 8.1 books?

2002-02-08 Per discussione JOHN HEMMER
On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Kaj Haulrich wrote: Stojs wrote: Is there a good book for beginners about mandrake 8.1? Preferable a printed one, but a digital one would be ok. I would like it to cover Running Linux, by Matt Welsh, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer Lar Kaufman. O'Reilly ISBN

Re: [newbie] How do I upgrade existing 8.0 to 8.1?

2002-02-08 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
I'm showing you my configuration here. Usually there is a host1 and a host2, however in my case I have disconnected all drives from the first two ide buses. Therefore when devfs creates the directory structure in dev, it shows only the buses that have active devices attached.

[newbie] Keyboard Special Shortcuts

2002-02-08 Per discussione Jesse Angell
Hello, My speakers volume control does not function. But my keyboard features volume buttons and other such things. How do I get them to work in Mandrake 8.1... Thank you Jesse Angell _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com

RE: [newbie] Unsatisfied Dependancies

2002-02-08 Per discussione FLYNN, Steve
Have you tried www.rpmfind.org? -Original Message- From: Mark Evans [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 10:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Unsatisfied Dependancies Hi Im attempt to install mplayer in a Mandrake 8.1 system. My

[newbie] About the 3 ISO files

2002-02-08 Per discussione Pablo
Hi group, I'm downloading the first iso file (Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso) and I was wondering wheter if I needed the other two iso files or not. I wanted to know what they contain exactly and if they are necessary for the installation. Thanks in advance Pablo -- Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] About the 3 ISO files

2002-02-08 Per discussione Damian G
nope, the second and third cd's are a lot of useful packages and programs, but they are not necesary to make the OS work. anyway if you have a broadband connection, i suggest you get them too.. see ya. Hi group, I'm downloading the first iso file (Mandrake81-cd1-inst.i586.iso) and I was

Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc

2002-02-08 Per discussione Walter Logeman
try man XXX|col -b|XXX.txt Sounds good , but alas did not work for me as you can see i get a file with nothing in it. What am I missing? 909 walter@psybernet:~ (03:13:50) $ man urpmi|col -b|urpmi.txt 910 walter@psybernet:~ (03:14:17) $ ls urpmi* -l -rw-r--r--1 walter walter

[newbie] bastille and gateway

2002-02-08 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Hi, when I set up my gateway via drakgw (Mandrake Control Center) it seems to do something funky with bastille? What exactly is happening, is bastille turned off when drakgw starts working? How do I get them to play nice? - Paul Rodriguez

Re: Re(6): [newbie] Building a PC (2).

2002-02-08 Per discussione Ric Tibbetts
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 00:44, Brian Durant wrote: Tell him to order it from Singapore. I used to get all my stuff there. :) (I lived in Bandung for a couple years. Seemed everytime I needed something, it was being ordered from Singapore.). Thanks for the info Ric, I would like to get the

Re: [newbie] About the 3 ISO files

2002-02-08 Per discussione Pablo
Thanks Damian for the quick response. Regards -Pablo At 02:17 09/02/2002 +, you wrote: nope, the second and third cd's are a lot of useful packages and programs, but they are not necesary to make the OS work. anyway if you have a broadband connection, i suggest you get them too.. see

Re: [newbie] XMMS working - sort of

2002-02-08 Per discussione s
On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:18 pm, you wrote: Hi everybody, We've been having a lot of power troubles recently (ice storm) and as a consequence, my computer has been abused by power outages and power ups (I wasn't home to turn it all off). Anyway, now sound is goofy. I can get

Re: [newbie] Frozen RPMDrake

2002-02-08 Per discussione Walter Logeman
RPMDrake always stops at 68% when reading the FTP site of LM8.0 updates. I have already mentioned this in the Installing Files thread - but it is OT here: How did you configure RPMDrake to go there? Upon opening RPMDrake checks the database of installed files etc. I have explored it but

Re: [newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate

2002-02-08 Per discussione Matthew Harrison
Thanks, that did the trick. Matt - Original Message - From: Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 3:34 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] 8.2 and MandrakeUpdate On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 15:21:34 -0500 Matt Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I

Re: Fw: [newbie] making a file from a man doc

2002-02-08 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Friday 08 February 2002 09:18 pm, Walter Logeman wrote: try man XXX|col -b|XXX.txt Sounds good , but alas did not work for me as you can see i get a file with nothing in it. What am I missing? Try it like this, worked for me as I had the same trouble. $ man urpmi| col -b urpmi.txt

[newbie] Building a PC (3).

2002-02-08 Per discussione Brian Durant
Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions: 1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any problems with Mandrake recognition of the card or performance problems with

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (3).

2002-02-08 Per discussione Roger Sherman
On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions: 1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6 Channel Sound Card). Any problems with Mandrake recognition of

[newbie] Install error

2002-02-08 Per discussione Roger Sherman
Trying to reinstall 8.1, with CDs from the PowerPack. Now, I'd installed from these CDs before, on the HD I'm trying to install from. But now its saying Error in exec of stage2 :-( FATAL ERROR IN STAGE1: Not a dir I cannot recover from this. You may reboot your system. Anyone seen this

RE: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Reboot..how often]

2002-02-08 Per discussione FLYNN, Steve
I seem to recall, and I may be off the mark here, as it's a dim and distant memory, that kppp is written in Tcl which isn't the most gracious handler of memory in my opinion - it does something weird holding onto resources (especailly memory), which could be the cause of your problems. Just my

Re: [newbie] Building a PC (3).

2002-02-08 Per discussione skinky
On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:51, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 9 Feb 2002, Brian Durant wrote: Ok, I am getting closer to my goal, but still have a few questions: 1) For those on the list using the Soyo Dragon+. I see that there is a sound card built into the motherboard (C-Media 6