Re: [newbie-it] Firewire

2003-03-15 Per discussione freefred
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 15 March 2003 3:17 pm, fabio wrote about [newbie-it] Firewire: Sto preparando per un amico un sitema linux mdk per acquisizione ed elaborazione di filmati. Qualcuno mi sa dare dritte e documentazione (in italiano è meglio) per riuscire

[newbie] RPM Dependency

2003-03-15 Per discussione Arvid Poon
I tried to upgrade my glibc by running 'rpm -Uvh glibc-' and got the following message : rpmlib(VersionedDependencies) = 3.0.3-1 is need by glibc-x : : How can I find that rpm ? I can't find it in speakeasy.rpmfind.net. And I can't find the related document

Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux

2003-03-15 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 07:34, Greg Meyer wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 06:50 am, Luke Stutters wrote: Could I defrag my Win98SE disc from linux? It's a bit difficult to do in Windows, as it insists on writing to the disc for no reason while defragging, which slows it down a lot. MAny times

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 1:18 am, Andy Davidson wrote: I recently installed Mandrake 9.0 on my laptop and have run into some oddities. The first is crontab. If I do 'crontab -e', it brings up my editor (emacs), but when I exit it, I get the message crontab: no changes made to crontab The

Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux

2003-03-15 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 9:59 am, Michael Adams wrote: Depending on your motherboard safemode will be available from [F1], [F8] or perhaps another keypress during boot up at the same time as Bios Setup is an option. Pedantic note: It is not motherboard dependant. The option is controlled by

Re: [newbie] Defragging FAT32 partitions from linux

2003-03-15 Per discussione Paul
In reply to Richard's mail, d.d. Sat, 15 Mar 2003 10:10:43 +: Pedantic note: It is not motherboard dependant. The option is controlled by Windows, and is available for a second or three just as the boot starts. I can never remember if it is F8 or F5, but it doesn't change. F8 gives you the

Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz

2003-03-15 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 4:08 am, David E. Fox wrote: First step is to look at it: $ zcat xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz | tar -tvf - tar (at least on MDK9.0) can read compressed archives, so $ tar -tzvf xtrs-4.5a.tar.gz will do just as well. In fact bash wildcarding is your friend here. I usually use just

Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange

2003-03-15 Per discussione Anders Lind
Speaking of strange occurances, I get something strange with my ADSL in MDK 9.1 rc1 (Have not tried RC2 though) where I can't get RP-PPPoE to work, it always fails. I have not tried 9.0 either, because my CD's are busted (I guess I could a FTP-install if I could that to run, which I haven't tried

Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9

2003-03-15 Per discussione Graham Watkins
Derek Jennings wrote: Try Turboprint It is free (as in beer) for personal use and is said to work well with Canon printers. http://www.turboprint.de/english.html derek Installed it - did the business - thanks -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm

Re: [newbie] Dell Latitude notebook

2003-03-15 Per discussione dennis
On Saturday 15 March 2003 12:01 am, Noah A Hicks wrote: I'm running a laptop that sounds identical to yours is it an LS400? Mine works fine with Mandrake 9.1rc1 as it did with 9.0. I would recomment using 9.1 if you use GNOME (a lot of bugs were fixed) but KDE seemed fine on both.

Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange

2003-03-15 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:26 am, Anders Lind wrote: Speaking of strange occurances, I get something strange with my ADSL in MDK 9.1 rc1 (Have not tried RC2 though) where I can't get RP-PPPoE to work, it always fails. I have not tried 9.0 either, because my CD's are busted (I guess I could a

Re: [newbie] Strange strange strange

2003-03-15 Per discussione Anders Lind
See if rp-pppoe is installed. 9.1rc1 had connection problems, don't know if they were showing up in adsl but defenitely in a LAN connection. rp-pppoe is the ADSL driver you should have and I would wait for 9.1 final cause it is very close to being released I believe. HTH I was actually

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 9.0 Windows XP Co-existing

2003-03-15 Per discussione Marshall Lake
Thanks to everyone for your help concerning this subject. -- Marshall Lake -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mlake.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] VMWare problem - Signal 11 during X startup in 9.1 RC2

2003-03-15 Per discussione Johannes Climacus
Hi, I'm having problem getting X to load under Mandrake 9.1 RC2. I'm running it inside Vmware 3.1.1 on Windows XP, which runs my Redhat 7 image without any problem. When I run startx under Mandrake 9.1, I can see X switching into hi-res graphics mode successfully, and the blue desktop

[newbie] authentication(?) via linux

2003-03-15 Per discussione Bill Winegarden
Hi, Is there any way for me to login via a web page to a Win2k site that is serving files? I don't get a chance to enter the username / password. All I ever get is this error You are not authorized to view this page You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the

Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz

2003-03-15 Per discussione Marc Oestreicher
On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:08 am, David E. Fox wrote: I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good=20 documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. What are you ttrying to install? coffee cup A wysiwyg html editor -- Marc KM5KW

Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz

2003-03-15 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 18:21, Marc Oestreicher wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2003 04:08 am, David E. Fox wrote: I have looked around and so far have been unable to find any good=20 documation explaining how to install a application from a tar.gz file. What are you ttrying to install?

Re: [newbie] urpmi is hanging

2003-03-15 Per discussione David E. Fox
main ftp site back in until I did the delete and reinstall. No idea why but maybe it will work in your situation. HTH Well, it may be a one-time problem with the specific mirror I'm using for updates. I was able to continue by ctrl-c and it then began to integrate the new data for the other

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Per discussione Miark
ls test; emacs test; echo $? Betcha the exit value is non-zero. Same here: it's zero. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Installing Tar.gz

2003-03-15 Per discussione David E. Fox
coffee cup A wysiwyg html editor Hmm. 'make coffee' ... interesting. I'll take mine with cream and sugar :). Seriously, after a few seconds in google I found the coffecup HTML editor I think you are referring to. The page says it is free but not open source. (dumb) Anyhow, that makes it seem

Re: [newbie] problem upgrading to new usermode package?

2003-03-15 Per discussione Benjamin Pflugmann
Hello. On Sat 2003-03-15 at 10:30:13 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: don't know much about shell scripting. anyone care to tell me what it is doing? $ rpm -qp --scripts usermode-1.42-8.2mdk.i586.rpm postinstall scriptlet (through /bin/sh): if [ ! -z $SECURE_LEVEL ];then if [ -x

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Per discussione Technoslick
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 14:21, civileme wrote: So goodbye.. Civileme Good luck to you, Civileme. T -- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:21 pm, civileme wrote: So goodbye.. Civileme Civileme, I wish you all the best. To me it is incomprehensible that IT corporations aren't fighting to get you onboard. I sure will miss you. Good luck ! Kaj haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at

Re: [newbie] Mail server questions

2003-03-15 Per discussione Stephen Jeppesen
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:27:23 -0500 Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My isp is being absorbed by Comcast so all my email addresses are about to change again. Can someone tell me how to set up my own mail server (just an overview for a dummy) and perhaps a tutorial or 10 for starters would be

Re: [newbie] VMWare problem - Signal 11 during X startup in 9.1 RC2

2003-03-15 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-03-16 at 03:11, Johannes Climacus wrote: Hi, I'm having problem getting X to load under Mandrake 9.1 RC2. I'm running it inside Vmware 3.1.1 on Windows XP, which runs my Redhat 7 image without any problem. When I run startx under Mandrake 9.1, I can see X switching into

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On Sat, 15 Mar 2003 21:01:04 +0100 Kaj Haulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Saturday 15 March 2003 08:21 pm, civileme wrote: So goodbye.. Civileme Civileme, I wish you all the best. To me it is incomprehensible that IT corporations aren't fighting to get you onboard. I sure

Re: [newbie] Mail server questions

2003-03-15 Per discussione Lee
Chris at Lockergnome mentioned it last week. It took me 6 months to recover from the MediaOne crap. Just a rumor would make me get my butt in gear. With the best of help, I'm not expecting overnight results, but when I finish I will be in charge, in a proper Linux tradition. Or something

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Per discussione Adolfo Bello
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:21, civileme wrote: I was looking at the Mandrakesoft site recently and I saw a recommendation for folks to use MandrakeExpert rather than these mailing lists. I hate the web interface and It required a great effort with databases to keep up with the incidents when

Re: [newbie] Off list for a while

2003-03-15 Per discussione Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hope you find what you're looking for. You've been my reference since I discovered Mandrake 2 years ago... 8-| Es Dissabte 15 Març 2003 20:21, en civileme va escriure: I was looking at the Mandrakesoft site recently and I saw a recommendation

[newbie] Procmail Recipes

2003-03-15 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
Hey y'all - anyone remember that I posed a PROCMAILRC a while ago - well, as y'all know, all my mail went the way of the wind, and if anyone can blast me a copy of it back - cuz I'm hustling to get my system back to specREALLY APPRECIATE! -- Sun Mar 16 08:50:00 EST 2003 08:50:00 up 1 day,

Re: [newbie] crontab -e doesn't work

2003-03-15 Per discussione Andy Davidson
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 10:07:39AM +, Richard Urwin wrote: This sounds like a two phase save problem. In order not to loose your work if there is a catastrophic crash, many editors save the edited file under a temporary name, then rename the original as a backup, and rename the saved

[newbie] The sounds of static.

2003-03-15 Per discussione James Henry Maiewski
OS: Mandrake 9.0 CPU: AMD Athlon Board: ASUS A7V Sound Card: SoundblasterLive MP3+ 5.1 Modem: US Robotics/3COM 56K FaxModem model 5610 Hello, I'm not sure what (besides my incompetence) is to blame, but I can't get anything but static when I try to play any kind of sound file. CDs play

Re: [newbie] Mail server questions

2003-03-15 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 11:58 pm, Carter Harris wrote: With Comcast you are going to have a big-time problem if your Comcast is like mine. In my area, Comcast won't ... will not give you a static IP address. You could get around that with a dynamic DNS service but they (Comcast) also

[newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-15 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
Okay, I'm still having some hardware problems. I installed and ran memtest overnight, about 24 passes with no errors. I grabbed and installed cpuburn 1.4 last night, then ran burnMMX. It won't run longer than 2 minutes before I get a full lockup that requires a hardware reset or powerdown and

Re: [newbie] Mail server questions

2003-03-15 Per discussione Guy Rouillier
Carter Harris wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 5:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Mail server questions On Saturday 15 Mar 2003 7:27 pm, Lee wrote: My isp is being absorbed by Comcast so all my

Re: [newbie] cpuburn and memtest

2003-03-15 Per discussione Ian Trickett
Should be fine at 50C. If your memory is in 2 sticks, try taking one out. If it still crashes, switch them! If it's ok you've found your problem. Make sure you,ve got good air circulation, esp. round your vid card - they can get real hot too. What speed and timings are you running the memory at?