Re: [newbie] ACPI failed -another one!

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030122 Jun 17 16:53:34 pc-00066 kernel: ACPI: Disabled via command line (acpi=off) That's the bootup command line in lilo.conf, and it's probably been set off for a reason. Many people here have set it to off because sound

Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-19 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Thursday 19 June 2003 08:40 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Along these lines When I boot up my machine go directly to KDE. If I want to select to run gnome (for instance) at booting time how do I do that? Surely pressing some key at some time in the booting process will offer me that menu - when

Re: [newbie] Canon D646U USB Scanner Driver?

2003-06-19 Per discussione John Layt
Hi! I've been looking into this as my father has one and I'm trying to convert him over to Linux (he finally had enough of the Illegal Operations in Winblows). Unfortunately, he brought the scanner without checking with me first. The current state, according to the SANE website

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
On 20 Jun 2003 12:40:19 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Mate, if you don't mind posting to Oz, it's: 2 Hertford St. Berkeley, NSW 2506 Australia ...can't seem to find it at the local software shop(s) wouldn't it be quicker just to download the ISO? I could up it to my

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
I tried everything i could think of to get it to alpabetize, but couldn't. Plus, the mozzilla that came with 9.1 is so borked, it eventually stopped working all together for me. Even after deleting the mozilla dir. Were you using the most recent version of Mozilla released

Re: [newbie] recognizing/testing hardware problems?

2003-06-19 Per discussione Crak600 - Michael
On Thursday 19 June 2003 10:32 pm, JoeHill wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:03:12 -0400 Crak600 - Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Samsung 955? that's what I got, love it! no, 950B. don't know how much difference there is between the 2. ordered from Techonweb, where geeks shop or

[newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Per discussione revolt
I am trying to rip a dvd, used urpmi to install quickrip, without errors. Went to run it and got this: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. If you think it is, but you still get this message, please see the frequent problems page online at: http://quickrip.sf.net/fp.shtml

Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Per discussione Charles A Edwards
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles -- Bart: Dad, you killed the Zombie Flanders! Homer: He was a zombie? Treehouse of Horror III

[newbie] Noatun Multimedia Player won't open

2003-06-19 Per discussione Crak600 - Michael
subject says it. Kaboodle will, but Noatun won't. don't know why either. i'm only on day 5 of running linux...HELP! :) www.basiclinux.net doesn't start til july from the e-mail i was sent earlier pointing me to it (and it looks like a great idea for me to take it). so until i can get

Re: [newbie] Bookmarks in Galeon

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
Not knowing anything about Galeon I had completely ignored this thread until now. But If I am understanding correctly you may want to try Opera as a browser. I think it will organize bookmarks the way you want, Haven't been following this one. Whatever is it in IE that you can't find

[newbie] This ROCKS

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/ -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + Don't believe the Hype! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Per discussione revolt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles Ok i searched around a bit and it looks like there is an incompatibility between pyqt 3.5 and

Re: [newbie] Noatun Multimedia Player won't open

2003-06-19 Per discussione Crak600 - Michael
ok, so i rebooted, and when i get back into KDE (which i was in before i rebooted) Noatun fires right up. i closed it out, switched to another desktop (i LOVE having 4 desktops to work with), opened it back up, and now it's working flawlessly. any clues? Want to buy your Pack or Services

Re: [newbie] quickrip and pyqt

2003-06-19 Per discussione revolt
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 21:05:02 -0600 revolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't load PyQT module! Check it's installed properly. Do you have PyQt installed? Charles urpmi installed PyQt-3.5-1.mdk for me. I have been looking for a newer version without any

Re: [newbie] video editing

2003-06-19 Per discussione Linus Drouhard
I'm running 1600 x 1200 so I don't think screensize is the issue. I downloaded and ran version 1.1.6 from PLF. I can use alttab to cycle between a screen with a black bar down the left center of the screen and a totally blank screen with a mustard yellow color background. right clicking in

Re: [newbie] missing libraries, awkward fonts

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
well i bought a WD For windows ONLY... My maxtor does linux duty. My g'f has a maxtor. No problems with either. But they bought out another company repackaged them as maxtors on the box... maybe thats the problem? That was less than ayear ago I bought mine 2 years ago... Yeah, they

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
BTW, what is a crunchie? Crunchhead or Crunchy=programmer code cruncher Hah! I guess that's true. When i first saw it, i used the granola / hippie meaning... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
Todd, Todd - Don't get too huffed up there Hey, i resemble that remark... huff Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] OO is taking abnormally long... - SOLVED.

2003-06-19 Per discussione Damian Gatabria
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 03:02, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: Damian Gatabria wrote: On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:33, eric huff wrote: So, in the end, it did have something to do with networking... -A INPUT -s 127.0.0.1 -d 127.0.0.1 -p tcp -j ACCEPT Sorry if i missed it: where does this go?

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 10:39, FemmeFatale wrote: At 09:28 AM 6/20/2003 +1000, you wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 02:28, Miark wrote: You should get Quake III--it really rocks rocks, using the Winblows CD with the Linux installer. Much less trouble to install than Quake II. Miark So

Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-19 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 18:29, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:37 pm, Mark wrote: Seems Orrin Hatch also maybe a software pirate Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? http://wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,59305,00.html Mark: Thanks for this excellent link. I'd seen another

Re: [newbie] How to add session types to users

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
How can I add session types ( kde, gnome etc ) to users when you are not yet on desktop. I can drop to a root terminal, but what do I call ? big snip Where do I go to add these desktops to the login managers session menu ? I thin kthis is what you want. Here are excerpts from emails on

Re: [newbie] RE: OpenOffice

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
I remember somebody on this list suggesting there is something what can be done to speed up OpenOffice at start up, some sort of additional software. Does anybody remember/know what is it? This from gurpmi: Name: oooqs Version: 1.0-0.rc3.2mdk Size: 255 KB

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:07, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:06:06 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Fine. Trial by combat hasn't been popular since the Middle ages, but if Yarro wants to go up against me, I'm game. Dibs on the Halberd! I want the Morningstar! Want

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Per discussione Stephen Kuhn
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 15:19, Aron Smith wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 17:07, JoeHill wrote: On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 02:06:06 +0300 Robin Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Fine. Trial by combat hasn't been popular since the Middle ages, but if Yarro wants to go up against me, I'm game.

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
On 19 Jun 2003 22:19:50 -0700 Aron Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I want the Morningstar! Did you ever see this really crappy movie, ages old, musta been like 197x, called The Sword and the Sorcerer? The guy had this sword with three blades, at the time I thought it was the coolest thing

[newbie] Boo Hoo Hoo

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
Rob Enderle complains that the Linux peeps are not nice to him: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storycid=74ncid=74e=2u=/cmp/20030619/tc_cmp/10700411 Maybe because of his blatantly biased views (worked for MS, knows Bill Gates personally, works for Forrester Research...) Forrester Research

Re: [newbie] System Hangs on Login

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
When it is there hanging (i guess that would be hung), did you try CTRL-ALT-F1 (or any F* dfrom F1 to F6) to see if you could get to a pormpt? If that doesn't work, i'd log in in rescue mode and change your default init to level 3. This will at least let you log into the command line where

Re: [newbie] Forbes can *@$ my *#$

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
On 20 Jun 2003 15:26:02 +1000 Stephen Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: I'm borrowing Elric's fave. what was that? -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + I'm even lethal when I'm unarmed, + cuz I'm louder than a bomb!

Re: [newbie] RTCW on linux (well, Mandrake to be more specific)

2003-06-19 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 15:36, FemmeFatale wrote: At 10:31 AM 6/19/2003 -0500, you wrote: This is a multi-part message in MIME format... =_1056033112-796-241 SNIP The official word as I understand it is that games from Blizzard will never run natively on Linux due to their

[newbie] more on Mr Enderle

2003-06-19 Per discussione JoeHill
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/21764.html -- + Joe Hill + Registered Linux user #282046 + Homepage: http://nodex.sytes.net + ICQ# 279518458 + I'm even lethal when I'm unarmed, + cuz I'm louder than a bomb! + - Chuck D, Public Enemy Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] what do these different things mean? KDE, Gnome, etc

2003-06-19 Per discussione eric huff
You can turn off autologin: At the CLI, as root: drakboot then click no fo autologins. Or, get there from in mandrake control center. select boot and then drakboot. eric On Thursday 19 June 2003 05:40 pm, Ralph Bagwell wrote: Along these lines When I boot up my machine go directly to KDE. If

Re: [newbie] This is an outrage!

2003-06-19 Per discussione Aron Smith
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 04:53, JoeHill wrote: Damn them to hell! http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/19/0459201 There are some things man is not allowed to modify Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Boo Hoo Hoo

2003-06-19 Per discussione MWafkowski
So True, So True, ain't it fscking grand?! Mike Wafkowski - Original Message - From: JoeHill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2003 1:23 AM Subject: [newbie] Boo Hoo Hoo Rob Enderle complains that the Linux peeps are not nice to him:

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