Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Stefano Salari
--- Alberto [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: On 13-02-2002 13:51, Fatto anche questo..mentre lo istallo mi chiede le libpng.so.3 o una cosa del genere. Io forzo. Lui istalla. Lancio xine e mi cerca quelle maledette lib. Se provo a istallare le lib mi dice che andranno in conflitto con un

Re: [newbie-it] Scanner USB Agfa e25

2002-02-14 Per discussione Pollo
Il mer, 2002-02-13 alle 17:24, Mario Lodi Rizzini ha scritto: Scusa se ti rompo, ma a questo punto ti chiedo cortesemente qualche ragguaglio. Quanto segue l'ho fatto seguendo quanto riportato in snapscan.sourceforge.net Ho installato i backends di sane 1.0.7 Poi ho definito lo scanner

Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Alberto
On 14-02-2002 9:04, Stefano Salari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Marco Canapicchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Alberto wrote: Di istallato ho le libpng2 ma se ne frega..e adesso che faccio? Levo le due e metto le 3?ma quei conflitti che mi dice darebber la libpng3 che cosa fanno? Non so

Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Alberto
Scusa, ho appena risposto alla tua precedente mail consigliandoti anch'io la 0.9.8 perche' mi ero perso questo tuo messaggio... Non so dirti che tipo di conflitti siano, non mi e' mai capitato! Potresti postare l'output di ./configure quando ti chiede le libpng? ...E mi viene un

Re: [newbie-it] Divx! Come vederli?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Luigi De Pascale
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Alberto wrote: Ciao! Steo. Ma allora sono io che sono troppo fortunato? Che faccio ci metto ste libpng.so.3 anche se dice che da conflitti col mondo? Grazie Ciao Alberto Direi di no. FInisce che dopo non ti funziona piu' niente. Potresti invece scaricare i surce

Re: [newbie-it] anti-aliasing

2002-02-14 Per discussione Rodolfo Colombo
Alle 18:45, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Qualcuno che ha applicato con successo l'opzione anti-aliasing saprebbe indicarmi che caratteri sta usando (ho la possibilità di sfruttare pure i caratteri win)? l'antialiasing io l'ho disattivato perchè mi dava degli errori e inoltre mi

Re: [newbie-it] Galeon e java

2002-02-14 Per discussione syd
Lele wrote: Usando Galeon mi imbatto in siti che richiedono java e il browser mi dice di scaricarne i plugins, cosa che ho fatto, ma sneza ottenere risultati. Dove sbaglio ? e poi, in netscape o mozilla non ci sono plugins adatti ? Se si dove posso trovarli ed eventualmente copiarli ?

[newbie-it] Internet

2002-02-14 Per discussione Pollo
Ho un grosso problema per la navigazione in internet. Non sono ancora riuscito a trovare un browser veramente completo. Con qualcuno non funzionano gli applet java, con qualcun'altro non riesco a utilizzare tutte le funzioni di alcuni siti (tipo inviare sms ecc.), con altri non posso rivisitare

[newbie-it] Dove ho sbagliato?

2002-02-14 Per discussione ku68
Ciao, ieri ho provato a installare staroffice 5.2. E memore di un consiglio l'ho installato da root con l'opzione net. Praticamente la directory era questa /home/root/staroffice/net Per non riuscivo ad aprire il prg da altri utenti (ho creato per provare 3 utenti su un pc singolo) in quanto la

[newbie-it] permessi-proprietario

2002-02-14 Per discussione Giorgio Carrara
Ieri l'altro ho installato Ximian Gnome. Credo di aver fatto tutto per bene ( tanto è tutto in 'automatico' ) infatti, per quanto ne capisco mi pare vada tutto bene, ma mi ritrovo con il lettore floppy, col DvdCdRom e col masterizzatore che mi vengono negati. Infatti, guardando le loro proprietà

[newbie-it] Opzione distruggi

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Ciao a tutti, uso Mandrake 8.1; nella versione precedente, in KDE era possibile - cliccandoci su col pulsante destro - selezionare l'opzione distruggi oltre alle semplici elimina e cestina. In MDK 8.1, invece, questa opzione sembra scomparsa. Pensavo l'avessero rimossa. Invece mi sono accorto

Re: [newbie-it] Kmail e allegati

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 08:46, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Salve, volevo sapere un paio di cose: 1) è possibile fare in modo che nell'elenco dei messaggi di una cartella kmail mostri l'icona della graffetta per quelli che hanno l'allegato? Ciao, credo che questo non sia possibile. Non so se

Re: [newbie-it] Cattiva qualità di stampa e problema con floppy

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 10:37, mercoledì 13 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Scusa, ma non avevi detto che l'installazione di Linux riconosce il tuo modello senza problemi? Quindi dovrebbe essere già installata, perchè devi nuovamente scegliere nell'elenco dei drivers? Con un altro prg la vede con kups no

Re: [newbie-it] Dove ho sbagliato?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 14:59, gioved 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Ciao, ieri ho provato a installare staroffice 5.2. E memore di un consiglio l'ho installato da root con l'opzione net. Praticamente la directory era questa /home/root/staroffice/net Per non riuscivo ad aprire il prg da altri utenti (ho

[newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip

2002-02-14 Per discussione e/tacc
Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PATH Questo è il contenuto della variabile PATH: echo $PATH /usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games: Queste sono i programmi zip: /bin/gzip /bin/gunzip /usr/bin/bunzip2

[newbie-it] Inappropriate ioctl for device

2002-02-14 Per discussione Marco Fortini
Salve a tutti, sempre nel contesto dei miei tentativi di connettermi col modem ADL Alcatel; sapreste dirmi cosa è l' IOCTL ? Feb 11 22:21:01 localhost pppd[4126]: pppd 2.4.1 started by

[newbie-it] Scaricare i file dalla rete

2002-02-14 Per discussione e/tacc
Non riesco a scaricare i file dalla rete. Indico il percorso dove scaricare, do l' OK e poi più nulla. Ciao

Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 18:08, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PAT Perchè non funziona? Grazie Ciao, devi semplicemente installarla. Cerca zip usando il Software Manager: troverai un pacchetto chiamato zip-2.3-7mdk

Re: [newbie-it] Slackware e ISDN

2002-02-14 Per discussione miKe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 21:10, martedì 12 febbraio 2002, in merito a [newbie-it] Slackware e ISDN, syd ha scritto: Mi rivolgo a tutta la lista ma in particolare a chi usa una slack 8 (ciao mike!!): ciao! scrivo per conto di un mio amico con il quale circa un mese

Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip

2002-02-14 Per discussione e/tacc
Alle 18:31, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002, hai scritto: Il giorno 18:08, giovedì 14 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non riesco a decomprimere i file zip. Mi dice:Spiacente l'utilità zip non è nel tuo PAT Perchè non funziona? Grazie Ciao, devi semplicemente installarla. Cerca zip usando il

Re: [newbie-it] Decomprimere i file zip

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniele Micci
Il giorno 00:45, venerdì 15 febbraio 2002 hai scritto: Non ho quel file e purtroppo non riesco a scaricarlo dalla rete, questo per ora è il secondo problema. Ciao e ti ringrazio Che versione usi di Mandrake Linux?

[newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andrei Raevsky
Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user

Re: [newbie] Text Editing

2002-02-14 Per discussione Robin Turner
I missed the begining of this string, so ignore me if I'm heading off in the wrong direction KWrite has a good find-replace function which allows regular expressions. Alternatively, if you need to do this operation a lot, then a Perl script might be the way to go. Robin On Thursday 14

RE: [newbie] group permissions

2002-02-14 Per discussione Mithrilhall2000
What I really want to do is make every directory non-browse-able to the user anonymous. I want anonymous to only be able to browse its home directory. So I guess I would like to also change all subdirectories and the files within them as well. Something like: chgrp -R anonymous /etc/ Now the

[newbie] Re: Salam :)

2002-02-14 Per discussione Mohammed Arafa 2 Mailing Lists
hello i m not very strong on linux nor hardware so i cant really help you .. however mandrake has a hardware compatibility page ..unfortunately it is not updated regularly but maybe u will find something there that will help you good luck salam - Original Message - From: Hanan Z. Shargi

RE: [newbie] group permissions

2002-02-14 Per discussione Sam STern
Hi Mithrilhall, What you need to do is audit your system permissions. Make certain that the all permissions are very restrictive. Here is an example: /home drwxr-x--x 15 root adm 4096 Feb 14 01:53 ./ drwxr-x--x 21 root adm 1024 Feb 9 01:18 ../ drwx--5

Re: [newbie] uninstall/re-install KDE Kmail (8.1)?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Walter Logeman
I am not sure at all either, but i recently used rpmdrake to delete another program. Note that the actual emails are in ~/Mail and you may wish to keep those. Walter On Monday 11 February 2002 08:07 pm, you wrote: I have gotten the KDE Kmail setup all fouled up ... how do I uninstall

Re: [newbie] RaiserFS or Linux partition

2002-02-14 Per discussione Bryan B Whitehead
I don't think ReiserFS is worth crying about since it doesn't get smaller than 32MB... A partition that small (such as /boot) isn't getting much activity anyhow. So using a non journel FS is fine. Or, like you seggested, ext3. Fsck on 32MB is hardly even noticable. On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 14:23,

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione NDPTAL85
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which

[newbie] Program with ./configure

2002-02-14 Per discussione Daniel Chen
Strange problem I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got

[newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-14 Per discussione Claudio Mio
First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem Ive installed a very small setup of Mandrake 8.1 with firewall support only. The intention is to run it as a firewall/Name

Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure

2002-02-14 Per discussione Brendan
I download the source code of PHP-4.1.1 and tried to compile it in my Mandrake Linux 8.1 This is my first time compiled a source code. I followed the instruction in INSTALL and execute ./configure. However, no matter how hard I tried, I could not run ./configure. I always got this error

[newbie] Another related question - iptables

2002-02-14 Per discussione Claudio Mio
I have setup firewall rules on my linux box. The iptables script I have used is: #!/bin/sh iptables -F iptables -P INPUT DROP iptables -A INPUT -i lo -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -s 192.168.0.2/24 -i ppp0 -j DROP iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p icmp -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -p tcp -j

[newbie] Installing a Downloaded File

2002-02-14 Per discussione Tonton
Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view this in Linux, all their extension names are all ended with asterisk (*) eg.

Re: [newbie] Program with ./configure

2002-02-14 Per discussione Brian Parish
This is a permissions problem. I usually see it when attempting to run something I've put on an NFS mounted directory and I've somehow got the ownership screwed up. Try just copying the whole directory into your home directory and running it there. That seems to work for me as a quick bypass.

Re: [newbie] monitor

2002-02-14 Per discussione g
vasscon wrote: My monitor,a 15'' Proview PK-572 isn't listed if no other responce log http://www.google.com/ and run search for 'proview AND pk-572 AND linux' and you should get a few hits. drop 'linux' and you should get many hits. log proview site, search 'pk-572', pull tech specs, plug

Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-14 Per discussione Brian Parish
What is in your /etc/resolv.conf file before and after you get it working? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 20:48, Claudio Mio wrote: First of all can I say its really good that 8,1 has added support for the Alcatel SpeedTouch modem. This has simplified things alot for me! Now onto my problem

Re: [newbie] Installing a Downloaded File

2002-02-14 Per discussione Brian Parish
You need to unpack the files ending with .tar Easiest way is to right click on them in konqueror and choose to open them with the archiver. Tell it to extract all the files, then check what's in the directory it creates. Hopefully there will be a readme or install file that documents how to go

Re: [newbie] greek fonts

2002-02-14 Per discussione g
vasscon wrote: Does the latest distribution support greek fonts as well? should. saw it somewhere in 8.0, did not bother. intend to install when i up to 8.1. your need is special? tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send

[newbie] cdrom can't accessed

2002-02-14 Per discussione christiyono
hello lists, I have unknown condition about my cdrom (ASUS 50X), suddenly it can't be accessed either by user nor root. When I try to mount it error message is bash : cd : /mnt/cdrom : Input/Output error --- in xterminal mode. When I try it not in xwindow the error message is like this: hdd

[newbie] Dual Head

2002-02-14 Per discussione Nelson Bartley
Heyo, I'm interested in creating a dual head (dual desktop?) configuration for my computer. I currently have the 2 monitors required, as well as the 2 video cards (Geforce 2 GTS, Ati Rage Pro). Now, when I go into XFdrake, it asks me a series of questions. 1) Configure Heads independently

Re: Re(8): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hey, Do you know how GSM mobile phones became an international standard? The Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland) agreed on a common standard for mobile phone communications. The Nordic countries don't have the largest populations of any countries in the world, nor

Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-14 Per discussione Roman Korcek
Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source it should be on the second installation CD. Alaa Thank you very much. BTW: How come the package is

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andrei Raevsky
Thanks for the info. This answers my question very well. Cheers, Andrei Ok to save you some time the only differences are in the file system. Linux can use the ext2, ext3, JFS, ResierFS or XFS file systems. All except ext2 are journaling. Mac OS X can use the HFS+ (which is the recommended

Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....

2002-02-14 Per discussione Robin Turner
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] kernel sources

2002-02-14 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:42:48 +0100 Roman Korcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hi, I found Kernel-source on the 8.1 CD that I had downloaded. It's on CD#2..I believe it's called kernel-source-2.4.8-26mdk.i586.rpm Terry the package for kernel sources is kernel-source

[newbie] iptables

2002-02-14 Per discussione tsmets
I'm a bit confused with the iptables installation in the MDK 8.1... There is in the /etc/sysconfig/ a rather cryptic iptables file called in the start up process. When trying to by-pass the call to the file for a self made file the call to iptabes commands. The commands give error codes

[newbie] mount as a regular user

2002-02-14 Per discussione rsch77
Hello all ! My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE desktop icons. I've changed the permissions of /bin/mount, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy in order to give me execution/write permissions. Also I've checked

[newbie] help with Alcatel USB ADSL drivers

2002-02-14 Per discussione JIm Killock
Hi all, i'm having a problem with my new install of Madrake Standfard 8.1 - which i bought cos it runs these drivers out of the box .. but I'm getting two problems: The internet connection wizard reckons I need the second Commercial apps CD - true or not?? The connection script in

RE: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Nick
Thanks Kipling but I think i may do it the hard way and use the RedCarpet Installer over the next few months! Nah, should only take a couple of days but I just though there may be a zip/tar file out there that I can download instead of all the individual rpm's as there's around 50 of them and i

Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....

2002-02-14 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Franki wrote: %_Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for ^M

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione Nicolas VERITE
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 03:16 AM, Andrei Raevsky wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which

Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop

2002-02-14 Per discussione Nicolas VERITE
Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to play audio CDs, don't mount the

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione Kenn Yahoo
i DID see that post, i checked out the article you recommend, and it was PHENOMENAL !!! thought *slightly* slanted toward BeOS, it was one of the most informative comparison of operating systems I've seen ... thanks for the suggestion. kennM | | I have not seen my post, so I repost : | | The

Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop

2002-02-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Nicolas VERITE wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have been able to. Doesn't happen on the desktop. Anybody know why this would be? - Paul Rodriguez Isn't there a problem of mounting ? I've read that : - in order to

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Per discussione NDPTAL85
On Thursday, February 14, 2002, at 11:30 AM, Mike Settle wrote: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. Have you actually been reading the emails? This entire

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione s
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:35 am, you wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS IMPORTANT TO KEEP NAME AS FULL PATH TO

RE: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP)
Thanks again for your help. I'll try these things out tonight (I'm not at my machine right now!) and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your assistance! Do you know anything about ZIP drives? See below... ;-) I've got an internal ATAPI ZIP drive in my box (it's the SECOND device on

Re: [newbie] xscreen saver

2002-02-14 Per discussione Rich Buckner
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:42 pm, christiyono wrote: hi all, is it any tricks to put xscreensaver from another distro to be activated in my mandrake 8.0? let say I have xscreensaver rpm from redhat and how to do it? so I can select and activate it from mandrake control center. thank's

[newbie] Changing from KDM to GDM

2002-02-14 Per discussione Terry
Anyone know how to change from KDM to GDM? I like the look of GDM better, but couldn't figure out how to configure Mandrake to tell it to use GDM instead. Any suggestions? Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-14 Per discussione Claudio Mio
The /etc/resolv.conf is as follows: nameserver 213.120.62.100 nameserver 213.120.62.101 search localdomain Ive now got something working by adding the following into my rc.local: route del default route add default ppp0 This is a bit quirky though and it smells like Im not doing something

Re: [newbie] Changing from KDM to GDM

2002-02-14 Per discussione Kathy Montgomery
My /etc/sysconfig/desktop file contains the line DESKTOP=GNOME. I believe /etc/X11/prefdm checks this file and if DESKTOP is set to Gnome, GDM is run. So I think you change the /etc/sysconfig/desktop file - Kathy Terry wrote: Anyone know how to change from KDM to GDM? I like the look of

[newbie] Lilo Problems

2002-02-14 Per discussione Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos
I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs, that I am not obtaining to decide, if somebody will be able to help. LI The First estage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot loader, but has

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione s
On Thursday 14 February 2002 11:13 am, you wrote: Thanks again for your help. I'll try these things out tonight (I'm not at my machine right now!) and let you know how it goes. I really appreciate your assistance! Do you know anything about ZIP drives? See below... ;-) Well, some of that

Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....

2002-02-14 Per discussione Michel Clasquin
On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: Hi all, I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control characters.. I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) grep every file for

Re: [newbie] unix to dos and dos to unix....

2002-02-14 Per discussione Miark
Robin, AFAIK KWrite doesn't show, but does give the opportunity to, say, search/replace regexps, and change the EOL character. I'm still finding I have the same problem - I converted a ton of Word documents ages ago (with noword, IIRC) but some control characters just won't go, no

Re: [newbie] Source

2002-02-14 Per discussione Paul
On 14 Feb 2002 05:56:23 -0500 Paul wrote: Ok well after some research it seem that compliing from source is always better then rpm's. Lets you get very specific on how you want the program setup and more so where it is install (woo who!). How do you determin dependencies for source? Thanks.

Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Dan Shackelford
I believe you will find that CTRL - ALT - F7 will get you back ... Xwindows by default puts the GUI on F7. At 12:49 PM 2/14/2002 -0600, you wrote: Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is

Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? Press CTRLALTF7 (or occasionally, I've had to press F8). Pressing ctrlaltF2 took you to a

Re: [newbie] Source

2002-02-14 Per discussione civileme
Paul Kraus wrote: Ok well after some research it seem that compliing from source is always better then rpm's. Lets you get very specific on how you want the program setup and more so where it is install (woo who!). How do you determin dependencies for source? Thanks. PK

[newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Marcia
Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or Services

[newbie] Full Screen in Vmware2.04

2002-02-14 Per discussione Marcia
I now have vmware 2.04 running Windows95 in my LM8.1. I am very thrilled about that however I cannot get it to full screen mode. I was able to run it full screen with 2.03 in LM8. Is there something I can do to remedy this? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Mark Weaver
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:26:50 -0500 Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] thoughtfully uttered these words to ponder: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Afonso
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Full Screen in Vmware2.04

2002-02-14 Per discussione Afonso
Marcia wrote: I now have vmware 2.04 running Windows95 in my LM8.1. I am very thrilled about that however I cannot get it to full screen mode. I was able to run it full screen with 2.03 in LM8. Is there something I can do to remedy this? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Per discussione civileme
Burrows, Scott wrote: Hi all, I've just installed MD 8.1. My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it took me to a command prompt out of GNOME. This is OK and expected but.. How do I get back to GNOME from there? How is this different then simply clicking the Open

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Gerald Waugh
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Marcia wrote: %_Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? run top if you are doing a lot of

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Marcia wrote: I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? No, IME, additional RAM is often more significant than increased processor speed in influencing the

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione civileme
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Happy Valentine's Day. I have a desktop computer that is only 200mhz and has 96 megs of ram. I would like to upgrade it to have 256 megs of ram but is that all for nothing if I do not upgrade the cpu? Thanks for the help. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] Memory

2002-02-14 Per discussione Roy
ram is the biggest bottle neck on a machine. installing ram will help out alot by improving most software preformace and reduce the read-write caching to your hard drive roy - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:26

RE: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Burrows, Scott
Thanks Randy! Scott -Original Message- From: Randy Kramer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 2:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] What does CTRL-ALT-F2 get you? Burrows, Scott wrote: My system starts up in GNOME. I pressed CTRLALTF1 and it

Re: [newbie] Modem PCTel

2002-02-14 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 14 February 2002 10:09 am, you wrote: Does anyone know any driver for the PCTel Platinum V90 HSP Micromodem that works in Mandrake 8.1 ? Thanks, Rodrigo Rodrigo: Try linux.nf/pctel.html HTH -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

[newbie] Netscape 6.2 Installation

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
Maybe I'm paranoid, but to install Netscape using NetscapeInstaller involves downloading from the net. I've no problem with that, but I do take issue that, in order for the install to succeed, the files must go into /usr/local/netscape. Now, unless I'm mistaken /usr/local has root:root

Re: [newbie] is there an easier way to install Gnone update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Guy Zelck
You should have a look at the X-Downloader at http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo. This app amazed me: it's a beauty, it works very well and even has sound events. Guy. Nick wrote: Trying to upgrade my version of Gnome to the latest from www.ximian.com/download with the suggested method of

Re: [newbie] DVDRom problem

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andy Gay
Thanks for help so far. I have tried several things. The dmesg reported: hdc: Toshiba DVD-ROM SDC2502, ATAPI CD-DVD ROM drive I did a ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/hdc as root and got /dev/hdc already exists Doing ls -l /dev/cdrom I get lr-xr-xr-x 1 rootroot 16 Feb 14 10:09

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

2002-02-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Brendan wrote: # ./man2txt umlug.1x.txt | less Brendan, Thanks for this! Where did you find man2txt. It seems to not be installed on Mandrake 8.1 with the selection I made, and although I found a man page for it on the internet, I haven't, so far, found a place to download it. Randy Kramer

Re: [newbie] Lilo Problems

2002-02-14 Per discussione Bryan B Whitehead
can you give allot more info? like how many disks? scsi? ide? mixed? how is the partitions? On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 10:33, Carlos Alberto Lima dos Santos wrote: I installed windows 2000, after that linux 8.1, but I am with problems to initiate with lilo. The following error occurs,

Re: [newbie] NVIDIA after Kernel update?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Alaa The Great
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:35:35 -0500 Vogel, Andrew (VOGELAP) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your assistance! I've got a couple of questions for you... In my /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file, I've got the following in Section Module: # This loads the NVIDIA GLX extension module. # IT IS

Re: [newbie] Retry timeout exceeded?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Mark Evans
I have found that you must send emails to this list from the email account registered. Any other sending address is just bounced right back. Hope this help! On Wednesday 13 February 2002 14:48, you wrote: I haven't received messages from newbie since Sunday. I've received four failed mail

Re: [newbie] mount as a regular user

2002-02-14 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:28:34 + rsch77 [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Hello all ! My problem is I don't manage to mount my cdrom and floppy as a regular user, neither through the command line, nor through the KDE desktop icons. I've changed the permissions of /bin/mount,

Re: [newbie] DVDRom problem

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andy Gay
FINALLY WORKS with kssd As advised on list, I edited the ~/.kde/share/config/kscdrc for CDevise=/dev/hdc That did it! Thanks to everybody! Now if I can get XMMS to work. I really like that one. Andy On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 06:17, Andy Gay wrote: My DVD Rom which I use for the CD Rom functions

Re: [newbie] Retry timeout exceeded?

2002-02-14 Per discussione Andre Dubuc
Thanks Mark, That's probably what did it. Just after the 7th my IP changed providers, and with it, of course DNS addresses. I've had to change a few things at this end. Then I noticed the mail slowed down, and stopped entirely from N@L-M. Good to know, in hindsight. Nice to be back though!

Re: [newbie] ADSL Setup with Mandrake 8.1

2002-02-14 Per discussione Guy Zelck
Hi, I've got the same modem as you but the routing is set up correctly. I used drakconf to configure my setup. I see in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts that ifup sets the default route and ifup-ppp deletes any existing route prior to that. It's quite complicated. I'm also planning of setting up

Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop

2002-02-14 Per discussione Paul Rodríguez
Yes, I can listen to cd's fine on my laptop, but when I try to rip the cd, grip just stands there. - Paul Rodriguez On Thu, 2002-02-14 at 11:52, Randy Kramer wrote: Nicolas VERITE wrote: Paul Rodríguez wrote: For some reason I cannot rip audio cd's on my dell laptop, never have

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux - factual please

2002-02-14 Per discussione Pascal Goguey
Hello! Hi guys, Thanks for all your comments which, while very interesting, do not quite answer my maybe poorly formulated question. So I will re-phrase it: do you know of any comparisons between MAC OS X and Linux which would look at aspects such as connectivity, multi-tasking, multi-user

Re: [newbie] ripping cds on laptop

2002-02-14 Per discussione Randy Kramer
Paul Rodríguez wrote: Yes, I can listen to cd's fine on my laptop, but when I try to rip the cd, grip just stands there. Paul, Sorry, I don't have any ideas -- maybe somebody else? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] (OT) AT or ATX

2002-02-14 Per discussione skinky
I know this isn't the place to ask this question, but I just have a quick question: I have an old (1997) pc case that I want to use for a new pc. How do I tell whether the case is AT or ATX? The mobo currently in it is a J-656VXD (Intel VX chipset) with a Socket 7 200MHz CPU and 200W power

Re: Re(4): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

2002-02-14 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 10:30:17 -0600 Mike Settle [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: I thought this was supposed to be a Mandrake forum - For the last three days, all I've seen is Mac OS related !!! Why don't you guys find a chatroom, or something. no disrespect meant, but the

[newbie] [OT] saw this one in Sridhar's sig

2002-02-14 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
snip -- Sridhar Dhanapalan After you install Windows XP, you have the option to create user accounts. If you create user accounts, by default, they will have an account type of Administrator with no password. -- Microsoft KnowledgeBase article Q293834 hey, is this for real? if it

Re: [newbie] Installing a Downloaded File

2002-02-14 Per discussione Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:56:45 +0800 Tonton [EMAIL PROTECTED] revealed these words to me: Anyone, how can I install a downloaded file? Here are the filenames I download: gtk-splitter-0.9a.tar HID_fsbench.rar j2sdk-1_3_1_02-linux-i386.bin kmemmon-0.2.tgz All of this files, when I view

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