Re: [newbie-it] kernel e patch(era scheda Tv+ kernel patchato)

2003-05-28 Per discussione Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle 01:15, luned 26 maggio 2003, miKe ha scritto: credo che ricompilare il kernel linus non far male alla tua mandrake, anzi puoi riciclere il config-2.4.21... che trovi in /boot adattandolo comunque al tuo caso, e togliendo tutto quello che

[newbie-it] Problemi audio

2003-05-28 Per discussione Michele
Colgo l'occasione di salutare tutti come nuovo entrato in questa email-list. Il mio problema principale è che non riesco a capire perchè mi succede questo con l'audio. Ho istallato Audacity 1.1.1 su Mdk 9.1 con KDE scheda audio Creative Live 5.1. Per un po di giorni ho registrato da sorgenti

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Wohoo!)

2003-05-28 Per discussione eric huff
I just cvs'd and noticed that the themeset stuff is commented out of menu. My email is too blurry, now, though, so i will have to go to bed and try it tomorrow with the latest files. I just mailed the pekwm list about that. It seems there is supposed to be a file called pekwm_themeset that is

Re: [newbie] WM's in general

2003-05-28 Per discussione Vahur Lokk
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 12:51, Femme wrote: When drak first time comes up it gives you the option (in KDE anyway) to choose which WM to run on top of KDE itself. Like Enlightenment. NOw I chose that option once, couldn't figure out how to undo it. Silly me. Simply run this wizard again? I

RE: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Tony S. Sykes
Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ; rather than to separate the 2 commands? Tony. -Original Message- From: stormjumper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 2:40 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates if

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 17:57, Marco Verheul wrote: Hi all, I want to create a tarball from my home directory, but I'm confused about one thing. When I do: # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar /home/marco or # tar -zcvf homearchive.tar.gz /home/marco seems to have the same result.

Re: [newbie] OT: newbies and off-topic stuff

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 6:43 am, eric huff wrote: On Tue May 27 2003 12:04 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Did you try a search on mail? :) You get a hit for every page! eric I've just tried searching. I put 'newbie' into the box on the top line, and it came back with a not found - I think

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:26 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 10:55 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 9:37 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: snip When installing SO you have to enable it's networking capability to allow all users acces. To do so, become root, go to

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 11:01 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 04:51 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:17 pm, Frank Bax wrote: At 03:13 PM 5/27/03, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 7:38 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2003 at

Re: [newbie] unknown bridge resource?

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Thomas Williams wrote: I'm running 8.1 and I updated the kernel. Before I updated it I was getting one error message every time I boot up: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming transparent. After updating I'm still gettting that plus a bunch of other messages. Here's the error log file in its

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do advanced stuff, but you would have to spend ages composing the

Re: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 8:19 pm, John Drouhard wrote: At the login screen, login in to a user, then su to root. After that, go to /etc and edit the file inittab. Change the default runlevel to 5 instead of 3 like this: # Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Mandrake Linux are: # 0 - halt

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would seem ? On my right-click

Re: [newbie] Re: Pekwm (Gkrellm is cool)

2003-05-28 Per discussione Michael Scottaline
On 28 May 2003 13:32:35 + Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] insightfully noted: On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 04:08, Joe Hill wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2003 22:12:20 + John Drouhard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been googling around for the transparent skin, but cannot seem to find it. Could

Re: [newbie] Support questions

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:16 am, rikona wrote: Hello, I just signed up for support for the 9.0 Powerpack I bought. I thought I might be able to access another set of info about setting up Mandrake, but that does not seem to be the case. It seems to be asking me to open an 'incident'. Is

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:47 am, Technoslick wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 07:14 pm, Derek Jennings graced me with: snip Install the slocate package and then in a root terminal type 'updatedb' It will index every file on your computer and you can perform a quick search with the command

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Per discussione _nasturtium
On Wed, 28 May 2003 06:56 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just

Re[3]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-28 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 10:58 PM 5/27/2003 -0700, you wrote: Hello FemmeFatale, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 10:25:02 PM, you wrote: F See Attachment for explanations. Thanks for the notes. I was looking for a complete list, since one of the web pages mentioned there were many others. Dunno where it is though. :-))

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:50 am, Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always

Re: [newbie] cd-burning on 9.1--- 2nd attempt

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Pilagá wrote: El Lun 26 May 2003 09:32, Anne Wilson escribió: I refused to let k3b alter my fstab - I did the same under 9.0 and all was fine - but it doesn't work at all well for me (9.1). I've given up on it and gone back to XCDRoast, which has always served me well. Now it can see my cd-dvd

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will tar/gzip it for you...just FYI. Not in mine it would

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] Oops - what happened?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 3:05 am, rikona wrote: Hello Joeb, Tuesday, May 27, 2003, 6:58:13 PM, you wrote: J ctl-alt-backspace will restart the window manager. That might be J all that is needed instead of a complete reboot. Thanks very much for the tip. Maybe should have waited, but

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Per discussione FemmeFatale
At 11:14 AM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: I think he wants different combinations of FAT partitions to be visible in DOS and Windows. lilo will let the Microsoft systems, when booting, make their own decisions as to what is visible, which is precisely what he does not want. Now there is a utility

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and

RE: [newbie] Can't get a GUI boot

2003-05-28 Per discussione MARTIN HENDRIK RAD
This makes me think: I've gone through a lot of WM's (but not pekwm) and I've more or less settled on Blackbox as the best for me. But I would like to set up a kind of launchbar for a few apps on the desktop to avoid rummaging through the menu's. Or even a kind of command line box, maybe one that

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Mail

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:57 am, g wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: You could be right, there. Thinking about it, I've mainly been importing Netscape mail into different Netscape versions, and to some extent Mozilla mail into new Mozilla installs. Netscape did seamlessly take up my Mozilla

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:46 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am sure you could combine slocate ,awk and grep together to do

Re: [newbie] Creating archive

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 10:22 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Stephen Kuhn wrote: You know, you can just open a Konqueror window, right-click on the directory you want to archive and choose tar from it - it will

[newbie] pdf to KSpread format

2003-05-28 Per discussione Benjamin Jeeves
Hi all Does any one know how I can convert a pdf file to a Kpread format for editing. Thank you benjamin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Cody Harris
At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download dependences easier and software installs would work better. It

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Derek Jennings
Ok I found a fast graphical interface for slocate. In fact I found three :- xlocate - I did not find a download site, but it will be out there somewhere. klocate2 - Two versions. One for KDE2 and one for KDE3 http://apps.kde.com/rf/2/latest I tried to compile it, but so far without success.

[newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-28 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] namp/firewall behavoir

2003-05-28 Per discussione Andrei Raevsky
Two nmap/firewall questions: 1) I am using the firestarter firewall. When I try to scan a server with nmap I get repeated operation not permitted and my firewall's logs show blocked hits from MY ip. why is this? 2) when I stop the firewall and type nmap -sF -F -O xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx on a serveur

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top to bottom automatically. It would make download

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 03:26 am, Tony S. Sykes wrote: Won't that job run both commands at the same time? don't you need a ; rather than to separate the 2 commands? The prevents the second one from running if the first one does not complete successfully. -- Greg Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved

2003-05-28 Per discussione olli
I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX! Congratulations Ollimax - I did'nt know that ! As you have

Re: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Frans Ketelaars
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 11:40, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 9:46 am, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 02:09, Derek Jennings wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As for advanced searches I am

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:53 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 06:29 am, Cody Harris wrote: At 09:00 PM 5/27/2003 -0400, you wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2003 08:44 pm, Cody Harris wrote: I think mandrake need a script will it will automatically update the whole system, top

Re: [newbie] What did I do wrong with StarOffice 6 - solved

2003-05-28 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 12:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I saw DrewMartin's got a similiar problem with oo. I added line unset SESSION_MANAGER in swriter-script, and voilá: it wuks grate! Life is wunderbar! (pity I didn't read it in the first place...) OllimaX!

Re: Re[2]: [newbie] *Fast* file contents search tool?

2003-05-28 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:37:11AM +0100, Derek Jennings wrote: On Wednesday 28 May 2003 1:37 am, Todd Slater wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2003 01:09:26 +0100 Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can use regular expressions http://www.linuxpcug.org/lessons/rute/node8.html As

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-28 Per discussione Toran Korshnah
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:32, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name

Re: [newbie] gFTP

2003-05-28 Per discussione Toran Korshnah
On Tuesday 27 May 2003 17:32, RichardA wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2003 15:26:18 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: g I meant I haven't tried uploading to that site. I use gFtp myself, and it's easy. Let us know how you go on. Anne Anne, quick gFTP question: I put my user name

Re: [newbie] Surprized At Updates

2003-05-28 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 28 May 2003 08:07 am, Anne Wilson wrote: Greg - I have to say that when I first met this I did not find it at all easy to set up. You have to know what it is expecting to achieve anything - at least unless they have changed it a good deal. So I'm going to quote an old email

Re: [newbie] Checking for new Hardware

2003-05-28 Per discussione Joeb
On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:22:12 +0100 John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone else find that the bootup of M9.1 spends a long time checking for new hardware every time. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you sure it's spending a long time checking for

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Per discussione Graham Banks
snip FemmeFatale wrote: IF he wants partition hiding all the fun usefulness of running DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL say fuck LILO. Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing. How do I know? There was an article about it in Maximumpc about a guy who

Re: [newbie] Booting mdk/w98/dos

2003-05-28 Per discussione Graham Banks
Graham Banks wrote: snip FemmeFatale wrote: IF he wants partition hiding all the fun usefulness of running DOS/Win98/XP/Linux/another Linux Distro all at once, Use XOSL say fuck LILO. Cause frankly, it sucks for this kind of thing. How do I know? There was an article about it in Maximumpc