Re: [newbie-it] boot da partizione HD, cerco how-to

2003-11-05 Per discussione Andrea Celli
Alle 00:46, mercoledì 5 novembre 2003, alfredo ha scritto: Salve, posto un computer senza CD-rom ma con un HD con due partizioni, una fat32 ed una ext2, voglio trasportare per intero il cd di installazione di una distribuzione nella fat32, con un CD-ROM esterno, e poi fare un floppy di boot

Re: [newbie-it] UID e GID - Risolto!

2003-11-05 Per discussione Eraser Head
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 18:36, Fabio wrote: Sperando di ave capito il problema: se fai il login da un client come root, non riesci ad accedere al server co ni privilegi di root Questo è normale per le directory esportate con nfs. Infatti nel file /etc/exports , nelle varie directory

[newbie-it] problema root nfs

2003-11-05 Per discussione Eraser Head
Ciao! Ho un problema con il netboot della root. Il mio file fstab facente parte del filesystem nfs e' il seguente: # Begin /etc/fstab # filesystemmount fs-type options dump fsck-order 10.40.41.66:/typen / nfs defaults0 0 proc

[newbie-it] Router DLINK dsl500

2003-11-05 Per discussione EFFE.ELLE
Ciao,qualcuno di voi lo usa gia'?Dalle recensioni che ho visto è buono e dato che me lo hanno proposto a un prezzo niente male...e ci stavo pensando.. p.s Ho una serie periferiche da vendere..se qualcuno è interessato zona Milano mail in pvt Fulvio

Re: [newbie-it] Quanta: era Problemi con dcgui

2003-11-05 Per discussione Nevermind
Alle 22:42, martedì 4 novembre 2003, Giorgio Griffon ha scritto: Perdona la supponenza, ma posso assicurarti che con quanta + kwrite si può fare davvero tutto quello che si vuole in fatto di pagine web, a meno che non si vogliano usare le tabelle per incasellare testo e immagini. Si tratta di

[newbie-it] x session su netboot

2003-11-05 Per discussione Eraser Head
Ciao a tutti! Ho (ovviamente) un altro problema con il linux netboot: non riesco a far partire x. Riesco a fare correttamente il boot in runlevel 3, ma quando provo a lanciare startx lo schermo diventa completamente nero e resta li' in eterno, o per lo meno fino a che non schiaccio ctrl-alt-del

Re:[newbie-it] x session su netboot

2003-11-05 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nel dubbio che il mio problema risieda nel file XF86Config, ho rinominato il suddetto file ed ho provato a far testare a xfree il mio hw: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:root]$ XFree86 -probeonly XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build

Re:[newbie-it] Sempre Open Office

2003-11-05 Per discussione [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Utilizzando il foglio di calcolo di Open Office 1.1 ... Dato che la tabella creata è abbastanza lunga come posso fare per tenere la 1 riga, ovvero l'intestazione, fissa, in modo tale che quando scorro i dati con la scrollbar ho sempre l'intestazione della tabella di riferimento bloccata in

Re: [newbie-it] moz

2003-11-05 Per discussione beo
Il Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:18:19 + Arwan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ebbe a dire: E adesso direte che sono veramente un disastro. Non riesco a installare Mozilla 1.4: ho la 1.0 su, ho recuperato un tar.gz; lo scompatto, leggo le istruzioni e c'e' scritto solo di lanciare ./mozilla, dopo essersi

[newbie-it] Re: [Milug] stampante di rete

2003-11-05 Per discussione kudega
On 05.11.2003 15:08, Marco D'Amico wrote: Ciao a tutti, ho installato da poco Red Hat 9 sul mio portatile, salutando definitivamente XP. Confesso di essere un neofita di Linux... ma un passo alla volta... ;-) Ho un piccolo problema, ho una stampante di rete che vorrei utilizzare ma non so come

Re: [newbie-it] Sanner LG Studioworks 600U

2003-11-05 Per discussione Santarella Benedetto
Alle 00:01, martedì 4 novembre 2003, Corrado ha scritto: [cut] Prova con il comando sane-find-scanner ecco il risultato : # No SCSI scanners found. If you expected something different, make sure that # you have loaded a SCSI driver for your SCSI adapter. found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461,

Re: [newbie-it] Creare un server

2003-11-05 Per discussione Santarella Benedetto
Alle 22:07, lunedì 3 novembre 2003, miKe ha scritto: ti servono un dominio registrato (quindi un dns che risolva il tuo nome) e una macchina sulla quale far girare apache , una macchina non dico blindata ma quantomeno configurata in modo decente per resistere ai probabili problemi che si

Re: [newbie-it] boot da partizione HD, cerco how-to

2003-11-05 Per discussione alfredo
Grazie, scusami, mi sono spiegato male, il problema non mi si pone con mdk, che ha proprio l'iso del cd-rom esterno, mi sono incasinato quando ho tentato di installare su un veccho portatile: Debian/Libranet, il cui manuale di istruzioni sulla installazione da HD è criptico (almeno per me) per

[newbie-it] Consiglio

2003-11-05 Per discussione Matteo Villani
Cioa, vorrei un consiglio su politiche di backup! Ho un fileserver samba su linux al quale acedono più di 100 macchine, in contenporaneo ho attivato un altra macchina speculare al fileserver ma con nome diverso (logico). Faccio la copia di tutte le aree samba nella macchina slave, in questo

Re: [newbie-it] nmap (BO????)

2003-11-05 Per discussione Santarella Benedetto
Alle 22:04, lunedì 3 novembre 2003, miKe ha scritto: il loopback... 127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0 Ovvero? bye miKe ^ Slackware 8.1 GNU/Linux 2.4.22--jl12 @ ASUS S1N 1330c R.U.219755 - S.R.U.705 - R.M.110932 - MajaGLUG Member -BEGIN

Re: [newbie-it] Sanner LG Studioworks 600U

2003-11-05 Per discussione Corrado
Il mer, 2003-11-05 alle 18:34, Santarella Benedetto ha scritto: found USB scanner (vendor=0x0461, product=0x0346) at /dev/usb/scanner0 # Your USB scanner was detected. It may or may not be supported by # SANE. Try scanimage -L and read the backend's manpage. Se il mio pessimo inglese non

Re: [newbie-it] moz

2003-11-05 Per discussione Arwan
E' inutile che tu faccia finta di nulla e ti guardi intorno, caro beo, perche' ho le prove, il mercoledì 05 novembre 2003, alle 17:33 hai scritto: non so cosa intendi per normalmente, ma creando un link al nuovo mozzillo sul desktop o sulla barra ottieni lo scopo desiderato Da qualche parte

Re: [newbie] Audio streams

2003-11-05 Per discussione Raffaele Belardi
Yes, seems you are right. It was something I did not know, sound can be played from the IDE directly to the soundcard: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue80/tag/4.html Seems there is also something to do with scsi emulation, but that's outside of my limited knowledge. raffaele [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] Why do I have to start KDE manually?

2003-11-05 Per discussione John Richard Smith
I don't believe you answered the question:- Possibly you don't have kde available as an option in the dropdown list , and that is your real problem ? John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-05 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 03:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: By means of employing gramofile I have created a set of .wav files from an audio tape. When I come to load the .wav files into Rezound I get an error message, error reading audio data from /tmp/track01.wav

Re: [newbie] USB V.90 Modem Problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione John Richard Smith
Rico Zuñiga wrote: Hello, It's a WebExcel USB modem, can't get it to work, though Mandrake seems to have detected it, the driver (USB Modem Ambient Tech...) is listed in the 'other' section of the hardware list. I am very new to linux (and mandrake) and have been trying to correct this for

Re: [newbie] Some questions with Mandrake 9. 2 and ASUS A7N8X-deluxe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:24 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Everybody , I have some questions and any help is appreciated. I have installed Mandrake 9.2 on my Asus A7N8X - Deluxe mainboarded ,athlon 2500 system with ASUS FX 9560 - video suite graphic card. now the questionas are 1) I

[newbie] Fw: Soundcard at ASUS P4S533-X

2003-11-05 Per discussione Anisio Rodrigues Neto
hello, i´m new at the list and inlinux as well... i installed the mandrake 9.1 on my pc, the motherboard is an ASUS P4S533-X, the mandrake recognize my sound card but it doensn´t work at all. i tried other alsa drivers but i don´t know how to use them. Does anyboy had the same problem and

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 21:35:05 -0800 E. Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: (Debian 3rd). are you quite mad?! the only reason Debian isn't wiping the floor with Mandrake is the lack of a dead-simple graphical installer and a central software-management and config tool like MCC. sorry, but apt-get is

Re: [newbie] USB V.90 Modem Problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 5:10 am, Rico Zuñiga wrote: Hello, It's a WebExcel USB modem, can't get it to work, though Mandrake seems to have detected it, the driver (USB Modem Ambient Tech...) is listed in the 'other' section of the hardware list. I am very new to linux (and mandrake) and have

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Carl Creason
Thanks On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:22:50 +0100, Anders Lind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it

Re: [newbie] OT Qcad

2003-11-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 1:24 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: In my neverending quest to rid myself of win2k I am embracing Qcad ilo autocad. I can't figure out how to adjust the thickness of a line. All else is an improvement from the cumbersome autocad commands. Lee Could you add a line or two

Re: [newbie] Full Version VMWARE?

2003-11-05 Per discussione Lee Wiggers
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:17:21 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:57 pm, Karl Krauter wrote: Can anyone tell me if the full version of VMWARE is included in the Mandrake 9.2 PowerPack package? I am contemplating buying the 9.2 powerpack package but want

Re: [newbie] OT Qcad

2003-11-05 Per discussione Lee Wiggers
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 13:46:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 1:24 pm, Lee Wiggers wrote: In my neverending quest to rid myself of win2k I am embracing Qcad ilo autocad. I can't figure out how to adjust the thickness of a line. All else is an

RE: [newbie] 4 speakers linux - ATTEN: Anne Wilson

2003-11-05 Per discussione Tango Echo
-Original Message- From: Anne Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux On Monday 08 Sep 2003 1:28 pm, Tango Echo wrote: Anarky, I had a hard time with rear sound on my SB Live 5.1 card.

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione Franki
Tom Brinkman wrote: snip / So y'all can help, or give up. One or the other, no free rides. Join the Club, but also, tom $ cat /etc/mandrake-release Mandrake Linux release 10.0 (Cooker) for i586 got goin yesterday. Install an test it, specially those with ready made marginal

[newbie] teething problems with 9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione Aidan Holmes
I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone and I don't know how to start it again. If I reboot and select old_linux, the computer

Re: [newbie] teething problems with 9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione lduvall
When you are in command line/text mode, does the GUI start if you type startx? LeRoy I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Firstly, In lilo if i select linux 9.2 boots ok, but into text mode. The nice pretty GUI has gone

Re: [newbie] Error loading .wav in Rezound

2003-11-05 Per discussione Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:05 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Thanks everyone for your replies, Oh yes, I'm quite sure that gramofile completed OK, and indeed the .wav files play OK in xcdroast, well I have to check what I find, before writing to disc. The main concern here is to

Re: [newbie] teething problems with 9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 09:41 am, Aidan Holmes wrote: I have just upgraded from 9.0 to 9.2 and My computer is now running about as well as when I ran windows :o( Sounds to me like you have an nvidia video card and when you upgraded your kernel, you hosed your nvidia driver install. Does

[newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Per discussione Phan N. Thu
Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no more mouse. I know it isn't the mouse 'cause it

[newbie] Smbclient lm9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione Pat Patterson
I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the other machines from linux. I have lisa running. It will

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong Linux support

Re: [newbie] Smbclient lm9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 8:00 am, Pat Patterson wrote: I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the

[newbie] kde

2003-11-05 Per discussione philip
Hi I am running 9.1. On boot it boots into Gnome which is fine but I want to boot into kde as default. In the log off option I chose to have it go into kde as default, but nothing happened, so it still boots into Gnome. How can I change it so that it boots straight into kde. Thanks Philip

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Per discussione Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no

Re: [newbie] Smbclient lm9.2

2003-11-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 8:00 am, Pat Patterson wrote: I have been setting up 9.2 and it has been going pretty well but I am having a Samba problem. I can access the linux box from all of my other machines a mix of w98, w2k, and a laptop with XP home. My problem is with accessing some of the

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Per discussione Derek Jennings
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 4:29 pm, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since,

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Per discussione Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 08:29, Phan N. Thu wrote: Hi everybody My mouse (a USB MiniWheel Logitech) had been detected at install of 9.1 and working perfectly for about a month.Then I got ambitious and went to Harddrake and added 'Logitech' to the default setting of USB / WHEEL. Ever since, no

[newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Sebastien Plante
Hi, I have a weird sound problem. I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a new Dell desktop. My sound card is an original Sound Blaster 16 PCI (that I bought separately). After installing Mandrake, the sound card has been detected (es1371) and the module is loaded (when I check with lsmod)automatically.

Re: [newbie] 4 speakers linux - ATTEN: Anne Wilson

2003-11-05 Per discussione Anne Wilson
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 2:17 pm, Tango Echo wrote: I was cleaning out my newbie list folder when I realized you had hoped I would post this fix to Twiki. Better late than never? =) Absolutely. And it looks fine to me. This is my first post ever to Twiki so if you don't mind, could you

Re: [newbie] kde

2003-11-05 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:03 pm, philip wrote: Hi I am running 9.1. On boot it boots into Gnome which is fine but I want to boot into kde as default. In the log off option I chose to have it go into kde as default, but nothing happened, so it still boots into Gnome. How can I change it

[newbie] Organizing bookmarks

2003-11-05 Per discussione Trey Sizemore
I have accumulated bookmarks in each of 3 browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon) over time and I'm ready to clean house. I'm looking to either import from one into another or find some way that they can all 3 share a common set of bookmarks. I tend to use Firebird the majority of the time, so

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione robin
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just purchased Suse for $210 million:

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:04, robin wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:24 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:05 pm, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:05 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: According to this article, Novell has just

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione robin
Kaj Haulrich wrote: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:38 am, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip What's next, only time will tell. IBM has been a strong Linux supporter for several years. To the tune that they put about $75Mil into SuSE a year or so ago. Now that's been acquired by Novell, also a strong

Re: [newbie] Help: I need my mouse back

2003-11-05 Per discussione qhwang
Just like what derek said, run 'mousedrake as root to reconfigure your mouse. I run into the similar condition several weeks ago. Wishes, QingHua Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Grant
On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 10:13:17 -0700 Carl Creason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the ignorance but what is portsystem. I googled, but the few pages I found were in German and seemed to be about FreeBSD. Yes, it is the packagesystem in FreeBSDit downloads, compiles and

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione Kaj Haulrich
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:16 pm, robin wrote: snip grammarnazi It's viruses, not vira. Vira would be the plural of virum, not virus. Virii is also wrong (it would be the plural of virius). Viri would be possible, though I've never seen it in a dictionary./grammarnazi /snip

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:14:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Ya, if you enjoy a 3 day install process so you get 5 more FPS in Quake... ;-) --

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione robin
Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:17 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Oh, and *wow*, it will automatically dual boot with Windows, MDK has been doing that since, what, 9.0? errr... my first crack at Mandrake was 7.0, and it did the dual boot tango flawlessly. I started with 7.0 too,

Re: [newbie] xconfig

2003-11-05 Per discussione Oder
Thanks, thank you very much indeed for your information. Oder. - Original Message - From: Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] xconfig On Wednesday 05 November 2003 07:58 am, Oder wrote: I can open

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione HaywireMac
On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 21:49:11 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Haywire makes a good point I made a good point?! Drugs must be wearing off... -- HaywireMac ++ ICQ # 279518458 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake

RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Grant
Drugs must be wearing off... I hate that. - Grant Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Organizing bookmarks

2003-11-05 Per discussione Todd Slater
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:44:51PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have accumulated bookmarks in each of 3 browsers (Mozilla, Firebird, and Galeon) over time and I'm ready to clean house. I'm looking to either import from one into another or find some way that they can all 3 share a common set

Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 12:29 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: Hi, I have a weird sound problem. I am running Mandrake 9.1 on a new Dell desktop. My sound card is an original Sound Blaster 16 PCI (that I bought separately). After installing Mandrake, the sound card has been detected

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Aronsmith
On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 11:49, robin wrote: Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 07:17 pm, HaywireMac wrote: Oh, and *wow*, it will automatically dual boot with Windows, MDK has been doing that since, what, 9.0? errr... my first crack at Mandrake was 7.0, and it did

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Inhabitant of Zion
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless of

RE: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione Grant
Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Yes its great if you don't mind waiting 5 days for everything to compile (even on a relativly fast machine like my dual 1Ghz wintel box - unless

[newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot

2003-11-05 Per discussione tsmets
Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... I had to access another console invoke the REBOOT option ! Is that a mistake of mine or is it for a special purpose ... ? I now have to

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot

2003-11-05 Per discussione Paul
On 11/05/2003 10:11 PM, tsmets wrote: Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... Doesn't Ctrl-Alt-Delete still work? It does here (although my security is not 'high') Paul -- The

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione tsmets
Correct but if you are doing a runner up then you may change distro every new release because one comes with always the latests nicest, collest tools (for the next two weeks). Suze is greate but there are drawbacks too. While attending a course @IBM, they provided me a Suze 9.0 which was not

Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Sebastien Plante
The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31 1969 dsp1 crw---1 plante audio 14, 2 Dec 31 1969

[newbie] Re: kde

2003-11-05 Per discussione Greg Meyer
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 03:25 pm, you wrote: thanks Greg for your swift reply, but a little patience is needed with me. I do not have any idea what you are talking about with the etc/sysconfig where is this found and how do i do it... sorry as this says i am a newbie in every respect.I

Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:09 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante audio 14, 19 Dec 31

Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Jozef Riha
Bryan Phinney wrote --- napsal:: On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:09 pm, Sebastien Plante wrote: The onboard sound card is normally off in my BIOS... Here is the ls /dev/sound result: $ ls /dev/sound -l total 0 crw---1 plante audio 14, 3 Dec 31 1969 dsp crw---1 plante

[newbie] Looking for good digital image manager

2003-11-05 Per discussione Trey Sizemore
I'm looking for something like PixiePlus for categorizing and editing digital photos. PixiePlus is pretty good, but I'm looking at alternatives. I've also tried GQview. So what are the favorites out there? Thanks. -- Cheers, Trey --- signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [newbie] Writing scripts (small) in MDK

2003-11-05 Per discussione Bela Markus
As a former C programmer I was looking for easy, fast and portable solution to develop some SQL/WEB/etc. applications for my own. Tried PERL but personally do not like it (my problem) and moved to PYTHON. I really like and enjoy it. Easy to use, there are good libraries and also, I can run and

Re: [newbie] 9.1 does notproposes to reboot

2003-11-05 Per discussione Richard Urwin
On Wednesday 05 Nov 2003 9:11 pm, tsmets wrote: Dear, I upgrade my 9.0 to 9.1 raised the security level from normal from Higher. I now cannot find anything looking like a reboot entry in the menus... I had to access another console invoke the REBOOT option ! Is that a mistake of mine or is

[newbie] Red Hat Linux is dead

2003-11-05 Per discussione Miark
I'm not sure if everybody noted the context of Szulik's comments noted in the Redhat = traitors??? thread. But here it is: Red Hat is dropping its consumer line altogether. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33760.html Red Hat yesterday unveiled its answer to the vexed question of

Re: [newbie] Weird sound problem

2003-11-05 Per discussione Sebastien Plante
Here is the result: # ls /dev/dsp -l lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Nov 5 01:20 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp So I have changed the link to dsp1: # ln -s sound/dsp1 /dev/dsp # ls /dev/dsp -l lr-xr-xr-x1 root root 10 Nov 5 07:10 /dev/dsp - sound/dsp1 but still no sound

[newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs

2003-11-05 Per discussione Thinker
Hello All, I wish to download Mandrake 9.2 and make installation CD's so that I can install it on two of my machines at home and one at work. I noticed on the Mandrakelinux.com homepage that 9.2 is available for download. When I get to the information page I can't seem to find the location of

[newbie] Strange happenings in my PC

2003-11-05 Per discussione L.V.Gandhi
Yesterday I have worked (mdk 9.1)and properly shutdown my PC. But in the evening when I started my PC, it was giving errors for filesystems for ext3 and vfat. Totally I couldn't work. I tried upgrade from mdk cd1. That also didn't solve the problem. I saw /var/log/messages. normally file closes

Re: [newbie] Elsewhere in the news

2003-11-05 Per discussione Carroll Grigsby
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 02:04 pm, robin wrote: I'll be happy to test anything that doesn't blow up my monitor (remembering the good old days when you edited a modeline and said a prayer before typing startx). Sir Robin It's not an LG monitor, is it? -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs

2003-11-05 Per discussione Dennis Myers
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 08:24 pm, Thinker wrote: Hello All, I wish to download Mandrake 9.2 and make installation CD's so that I can install it on two of my machines at home and one at work. I noticed on the Mandrakelinux.com homepage that 9.2 is available for download. When I get to

Re: [newbie] SHould I get SuSe

2003-11-05 Per discussione David Filion
HaywireMac wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 11:14:44 -0800 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: Has anyone considered Gentoo? Their Portage updating system sounds awesome. Here's some info: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/about.xml Ya, if you enjoy a 3 day install process so you get 5 more FPS in Quake...

Re: [newbie] Download Mandrake and make discs

2003-11-05 Per discussione Jason Greenwood
Mandrake has wisely delayed the release of the ISO's until later in the release cycle (to encourage more people to purchase it or join the Club). In the past, it was avilable on the mirrors before retail!! That was not good for sales of course ;) Club Members can download it early via