Re: [newbie] total newbie questions

2003-10-23 Per discussione Dick Gevers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 23:16:22 +0100, Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [newbie] total newbie questions: As a workaround use the command urpmi.addmedia Club --wget http://user_name:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/downloads2/comm/9.1 with ./hdlist.cz

Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install

2003-10-23 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 15:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: At 03:31 PM 10/23/2003, Lyvim Xaphir said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 14:53, Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: I am using 9.1 right now, and I have ordered 9.2 as a boxed set from

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
Yes, all my sound does work. Only KMid doesn't work and that's because it gives me the error /dev/sequencer could not be found. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa is

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa is

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa is

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 05:16 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or

Re: [newbie] /dev/sequencer not found.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
You are using the OSS sound driver when the link DarkLord pointed you to recommends the Alsa driver for Midi. Your card should work OK in 9.1 with the Alsa driver. If the Alsa driver is correctly installed it will install a midi module for you In my experience the easiest way to set up alsa is

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Per discussione Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 October 2003 12:45 pm, Martin L. Johansen wrote: Does that mean I'm actually better off using less than 1Gig of RAM ? Yes. 99% of users don't even need 512MB But (just to clarify things), does it perform better with 512 than 1024 ? Or does a person just not need

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Aidan Holmes
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 19:37, Greg Meyer wrote: The TNT2 should perform better than that. Have you installed the hardware acceleration enabled drivers from nvidia, or are you using the free nv driver? Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file to tell. No, I am just using the ones that came

Re: [newbie] CDROM fails on detection

2003-10-23 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:22 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 08:11 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Wednesday 22 October 2003 07:42 pm, Greg Meyer wrote: I had never even heard of LG Electronics before this came up. I haven't been following this all that closely,

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
Hey I just did this a little bit back. You go to NVIDIA.com and choose the Drivers section. Look for your card and you should run into a driver called Linux IA32 Go download that file and put it anywhere you like. Then follow the instructions at this link

[newbie] PDF printing in landscape mode

2003-10-23 Per discussione Russ
Hi All, I am trying to print a document (pdf) in landscape mode but it doesn't seem to be cooperating. I am running MD9.1 with a Canon s750 printer with TurboPrint up and running. I have tried xpdf, Ghostview, kghostview and all seem to chop up the document. Open Office has no problems

Re: [newbie] Open GL graphics cards.

2003-10-23 Per discussione Scott Naylor
Hey I just did this a little bit back. You go to NVIDIA.com and choose the Drivers section. Look for your card and you should run into a driver called Linux IA32 Go download that file and put it anywhere you like. Then follow the instructions at this link

Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)

2003-10-23 Per discussione Eric Huff
|I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my |Mandrake 9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this urpmi seems to be the method of choice for most Mandrake users - Also, have a look at: http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/UrpmiUpgrade eric -- Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Upgrade vs. new install

2003-10-23 Per discussione Kevin B. O'Brien
At 06:54 PM 10/23/2003, Lyvim Xaphir said something remarkably like (but somehow subtly different from): One way to avoid the import stuff is to store all your email in Maildir format. That way, it's easier (and faster) to get your email recognized by Evo after you tell it where your Maildir

Re: [newbie] MDK9.1 on P100/32Mbyte

2003-10-23 Per discussione The Other
10/23/03 Hello Raffaele, This may have worked for me, it may work for you. Go into your BIOS and turn off (disable) any Shadow Ram on your machine. On a PII 350MHz with 128MB RAM, it seems to be working. (Although I still get some X Window failures on re-login in after installing new

[newbie] Upgrade or Install

2003-10-23 Per discussione Roland Hughes
Just to put my input to the group. Before 9.2 I have always done an install and just left the /home partition alone. This time I decided to try the upgrade and if it bombed I would just do a new install. Well everything went perfectly. Took about 20 minutes and so far everything works even the

[newbie] Adobe tar.gz

2003-10-23 Per discussione Russ
Hi All, I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured no problem I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right). I extracted it but can't seem to get it to install. make and make install don't seem to

Re: [newbie] Adobe tar.gz

2003-10-23 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Thursday 23 October 2003 10:07 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I have decided to install Adobe Acrobat to view and print pdf files. So I downloaded the newest version for Linux. It is a tar.gz. I figured no problem I've done a couple of those :-) (ya right). I extracted it but can't seem to get

Re: [newbie] multivolume tar

2003-10-23 Per discussione Lyvim Xaphir
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 00:25, Michael Adams wrote: On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 08:57:02 -0700 (PDT) Lyvim Xaphir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you can :-) No, you still can't, because it is not tar doing the job anymore, it is either you or some

Re: [newbie] Upgrade or Install

2003-10-23 Per discussione Eric Huff
Just to put my input to the group. Before 9.2 I have always done an install and just left the /home partition alone. This time I decided to try the upgrade and if it bombed I would just do a new install. Well everything went perfectly. Took about 20 minutes and so far everything works even

Re: [newbie] OT Help with samba

2003-10-23 Per discussione Dan Gordon
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:38:22 +0100 Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Install Webmin, if you don't already have it, and try configuring through that. If you still don't get it right, post your smb.conf file and we'll look at it for you. I have tryed everything sugested so far and then

Spare install - was Re: [newbie] Newbie Etiquette

2003-10-23 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 14:28:38 -0400 Heather/Femme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really need to setup a fuck me! OS beside my normal install of linux. sigh Femme It's not as nutty as it sounds. I have three on my Desktop box. MDK 9.0 - Stable MDK 9.0 - Tweak MDK 9.1 - Update Anyone

Re: [newbie] best way to upgrade (apt or urpmi)

2003-10-23 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:00:24 -0500 C. Tresenriter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 08:46:01 -0400 T wrote: |I have recently found that I need to desperately upgrade my Mandrake |9.0 installation. I noticed a few discussions on this list that deal |with apt and urpmi as upgrade

Re: [newbie] Ballmer: Win more secure that Lin

2003-10-23 Per discussione Michael Adams
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:45:56 -0400 Bryan Phinney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 23 October 2003 04:33 pm, Paul M. Bucalo wrote: Balmer may be conveniently throwing in *all* of Red Hat's critical vulnerabilities in its *distribution release*, which amounts to many, many

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