Re: [newbie] Re:Kde help

2001-04-19 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Ricardo Gmez S wrote: Hi all. I install the Mandrake 7.2, and all the times the Kde returns an error and I can't do anything. I try some variations at the install time, but all the is the same thing. What happend? What is the error message?

Re: [newbie] kde2.1

2001-02-27 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello, I can no longer speak for Mandrake as I am no longer working for the company, but here is my guess: There was probably a slight confusion over who is responsible for making the new RPM's. I had been creating all RPM's for the 7.2 KDE updates until about 2 weeks ago. It takes time to

Re: [newbie] XConfig

2001-02-19 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Monday 19 February 2001 11:28, you wrote: are there any xf86 (ver 4?) config tools for mndrake 7.2 that do not use x other than XF86Config? vi Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Re: [newbie] FTP

2001-02-19 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Monday 19 February 2001 12:47, you wrote: I have a L-M 7.2 at 192.168.101 and NT 4.0 at 192.168.1.100 and linksys at 192.168.1.1 I don't have samba running. ftp is there an each end. OK How do I get ftp to connect? You can by default ftp from the Windows box, to the Linux box

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-04 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
and other partitions would not be full, and so would be robbing space from /home. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, since I'm interested in repartitioning my drive to give more room to Linux (about 9GB in total, excluding Swap). On Sun, 4 Feb 2001 18:48, Christopher Molnar wrote: On S

Re: [newbie] Getting Star Office 5.2 to show up under user menu on mdk7.2

2001-02-04 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
or with the /NET option. On Sunday 04 February 2001 18:57, you wrote: I'm guessing that you installed it as root. I'm pretty sure Star Office needs to be installed with the user account. M. On Sunday 04 February 2001 15:51, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, For some reason Star Office

[newbie] Re: egcs

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Since I was sent the following question by someone with an address of localhost.localdomain I am posting the answer here: On Wednesday 31 January 2001 19:36, you wrote: What did you mean with: 9. get egcs from unsupported mirror directory Why I have to get that? If you do not install

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3/8.0 - getting ready

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
://www.innovationsw.com/training. -Chris Christopher Molnar wrote: 7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1beta2 Install

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 20:32, Dennis Myers wrote: I am trying to update my desktop to the 2.1beta and using Chris M.s instructions, I get a conflict of kdelibs for the new 2.1 with the old KDE1.99. how do you put the --nodeps flag in the command line? Does it go in after the rpm, or after

Re: [newbie] KDE 2.1.2 update problems

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 01:03, Richard Bozzato wrote: I've just updated KDE to 2.0.1 using Drake update, which has resulted in the following problems: * I can start Kmix only from root. Starting from other accounts generates the message "C-Media PCI" (my sound card is a C-Media

Re: [newbie] HP612A/lp0 not working

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Can you post the contents of your /etc/modules.conf here? (If you have anything top sevret remove it)/. -Chris On Sunday 04 February 2001 00:52, Bill Barto wrote: OK, I've sent in some info b$ on this and nothing works. Let me try it again. After numerous tries at setting up this printer

Re: [newbie] video conferencing software for Linux

2001-02-03 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 04 February 2001 02:03, Kris Kanyon wrote: I was wondering if there is any video conferencing software available for Linux?? Something similar to Net meeting, or icuii??? Someone told me about a program called SANE??? Thanks for you help. Alan. I second this, if anyone knows of

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 7.3

2001-02-02 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
7.3 NO, No, no. 8.0 YES, Yes, yes! Seriously, this will be a lot of major enhancements, this won't be 7.3. And give it a few more months. I am not sure if you already subscribe, but if you find the list Cooker Changelog you can watch the progress. -Chris On Thursday 01

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-29 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Do not forget the xinitrc package from the unsupported dir. On Saturday 27 January 2001 21:31, Romanator wrote: Vic wrote: Scuse Rex's abuse. I think I shall try the beta downloads if they will not hose out my system, I do become very upset if something bunks it up and I don't know

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-29 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Get the egcs packages from the unsupported directory. I advise NOT to use --nodeps. On Sunday 28 January 2001 13:18, you wrote: Piece of cake . I hope so I get teh following dependency error [root@firefight /root]# cd /mnt/scsi/all-tars/kde-2.1-240101/ [root@firefight

Re: [newbie] Linuxworld Expo NYC

2001-01-29 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 28 January 2001 17:23, A V Flinsch wrote: Anyone from the list going? Interested in getting together for coffee/beer/lunch whatever? Look for me at the Mandrake Booth. -Chris

Re: [newbie] Updating KDE 2 to KDE 2 Beta 2

2001-01-29 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Monday 29 January 2001 07:48, Mark Weaver wrote: Chris, I don't remember ever needing that package. At least it never asked for it. What is it and what does it do? should I install it even though I've upgraded without it? Do you use kdm? Some users had a problem with kdm configuration

[newbie] Linux World Expo in New York City

2001-01-24 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
If anyone living in the New York, New Jersey, Connecticut area in US would like a day pass for the exhibit hall of New York Linux World Expo next week I have 21 additional passes left after I did my required mailings. Please in PRIVATE email send me a mailing address. I don't want these to go

Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes

2001-01-24 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Assign the default gw (gateway) address. Most likely this will be 192.168.1.1 - your pings are going to you eth0 card, but it doesn't know where to go from that point. -Chris On Wednesday 24 January 2001 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am trying to connect my box running

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Saturday 20 January 2001 17:07, George Czerw wrote: After I updated 7.2 with the 0118 KDE 2.1 updates, and subsequently rebooted, I have the following problems: 1. At the KDE login screen a root login is forbidden. I put a new kdebase package onto the mirrors you do not need to update

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-20 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
, Christopher Molnar said: Hi Chris, I D/Led and installed the 2001.01.19 kdebase stuff as you said to do and things have improved but it looks like something else is really, really broken. Maybe not your stuff?? smile Not being a programmer type I would think it must be something like

Re: [newbie] KDE2 for Mandrake 7.1

2001-01-18 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
If your a new linux user. Don't! Upgrade to 7.2. The dependencies require a bunch of additional packages and stuff. Also, 2.1 should be out in a month so this gives you plenty of time to upgrade :-) On Wednesday 17 January 2001 06:18, Cristiano de Lima Logrado wrote: Hi, I'm a new

Re: [newbie] Xfree86 RPMs for Mandrake 7.0

2001-01-18 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 18:49, root wrote: I have mandrake 7.0 and everytime I try to update Xfree86 to v4.0.2 it screws up my whole system so I thought if I used RPMs for Mandrake it would make sure everything worked right, well anyways where can I get the RPMs and which ones do I need?

Re: [newbie] KDE2 PROBLEM

2001-01-18 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
I just got back from a Sun Developers conference in Boston :-) (have to spy on the other people every once in a while). I am about to kick off my build scripts so let's see what happens when I put out some 20010119 RPM's in about 8 hours. I suspect this problem may be fixed. (no money-back

[newbie] KDE 2.1 CVS 20010115 RPM's Available

2001-01-15 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello, I have just uploaded RPM's for KDE 2.1 CVS as of 2001-01-15. These RPM's are available on any Mandrake-devel (cooker) mirror site. You can find a list of the mirror sites on: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/cooker/. These RPM's are for Mandrake 7.2 and Mandrake 7.1 users. The files are

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Ok, but if one upgrades RPM to version 4 will it have problems with packages compiled with an earlier version of RPM? Be very carefull here. This is a newbie list, and I DO NOT RECOMMEND ANYONE IN NEWBIE UPDGRADE THE RPM PACKAGES IN 7.2 TO RPM 4.

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software

2001-01-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Then why in the world is there even anything being compiled for Mdk 7.2 in an RPM4 format? to begin with I was mostly just curious about RPM4 packages what-nots, but now I'm absolutely convinced that RPM4 IS from the very pit of hell and one should

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software (EVERYONE PLEASE READ!)

2001-01-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 14 January 2001 11:11, Mark Weaver wrote: On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:02 pm, you wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Mark Weaver wrote: Then why in the world is there even anything being compiled for Mdk 7.2 in an RPM4 format? to begin with I was mostly just curious about RPM4

Re: [newbie] Worthless RPM software (EVERYONE PLEASE READ!)

2001-01-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sunday 14 January 2001 12:20, David Boles wrote: On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 11:17:39 -0500, Christopher Molnar said: . BIG snip -Chris Can on still donwload source packages, IE filename-X.X.X.mdk.src.rpm, and compile them on a "stock" L-M 7.2. Or have they be changed "inside&qu

Re: [newbie] A quick cuestion

2001-01-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Monday 18 December 2000 18:44, Walter Lpez wrote: hello. i am very newbie en linux world, i have LM 7.2, but i wanta know, how i install desktop themes. Wait for kde 2.1. - 2.0 does not have them management. It was not ready in time. (wait until Tuesday and update from the unsupported

Re: [newbie] Getting support

2001-01-11 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Can you please post your question here? cc me in and we'll try to help. I'm not in the support department, but sometimes I can help or put you in touch with the right people. -Chris On Thursday 11 January 2001 10:03, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, I've registered my 7.2 and posted a

Re: [newbie] holy shrinking / batman!

2001-01-04 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
what is in /tmp? -Chris On Thursday 04 January 2001 19:57, you wrote: Hi folks, I'm confused. (Surprise). I'm new to 7.2 (and mandrake, generally), so I used the installation guide when deciding on partition sizes. This is what I have: / 492MB /boot 9.5MB

[newbie] Fwd: KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)

2000-12-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in

Re: [newbie] install netsaint

2000-12-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
there is an rpm in contribs on any mirror site: Mandrake-devel/contribs/RPMS/netsaint-0.0.6-2mdk.i586.rpm -Chris On Sunday 31 December 2000 15:50, you wrote: Does anyone know how to install netsaint ? i couldn't found the rpm of netsaint in linux mandrake disc if someone know please tell

[newbie] KDE 2.1 CVS Update RPM's for 7.2 (and 7.1 and 7.0, with some work)

2000-12-30 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello, I have made a set of update RPM's for 7.2 available for KDE 2.1 CVS code. The RPM's are made from CVS code of 12-29-2000. These RPM's are NOT supported by MandrakeSoft. Please report bugs in the code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] using the bug reporting utilities found on Help--Report Bugs in any

Fwd: [newbie] KDevelop and Mandrake 7.2 (fwd)

2000-11-15 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
It doesn't right now. I am trying to work on the problem, but am not having much luck. I currently am getting a seg. fault as soon as I start it. I am awaiting a bug fix from the kde team. -Chris -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:36:52 -0500 (EST) From: William

Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-25 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Make sure your ethernet card is in full duplex mode. They are shipped in half duplex. Also, if you are using dhcp and @home you must still put your host name in. It's not true DHCP. -Chris On Friday 20 October 2000 19:47, you wrote: Hello All I know this has probably been discussed here

Re: [newbie] Two Ethernet Card Problem!

2000-10-25 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Saturday 21 October 2000 07:52, you wrote: Hi all, I want to install two ethernet card, in my linux machine. The two cards, I have are of same vendor, and don't have the facility of jumper setting for irq. How will I set their irq?? Have you tried booting to DOS with the disk that came

Re: [newbie] Anything like Quicken?

2000-08-05 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I sent about 3 emails to the group yesterday and there must be a problem since I have received nothing from this group including the emails I sent since . I hope it is resolved soon. My question : Is there something like "Quicken "already

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question

2000-07-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Wait until the next update. I am working on it now. I promise I will come back and post a message on how safe it is. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Mark Weaver wrote: Chris, Is it safe to just install koffice and the things that it requires? I'm really chomping at the bit to get a look at

Re: [newbie] KDE2

2000-07-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Please wait a day and I will post it in here The version currently available is pretty buggy. -Chris On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Harry Flaxman wrote: Can someone give me an up to date URL for downloading KDE2? Thanks. Harry -- --Chris

Re: [newbie] KDE2.0 question

2000-07-20 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Be VERY VERY VERY carefull. KDE2 is excellent, but just going into beta. If you grab the rpm's from the cooker mirrors (Mandrake-devel) it will replace your 1.x KDE. If you choose to do that please wait for my next update of the packages. Either later today or Friday sometime. There are a lot of

Re: [newbie] test

2000-07-12 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Damn, you told it you were leaving KRRSSSHH! On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Denis Havlik wrote: just checking the lists health before leaving for a vacation .-)

[Cooker] ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-07-08

2000-07-09 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
l changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- --- Christopher Molnar Mandrake Software Hartford, CT USA (860)956-9408 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It said uses Windows 95 or better, so I loaded Linux!"

Re: [newbie] KDE2 problems

2000-07-06 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Install kde2and1stripts.i586.rpm and reboot. the problems should go away. and you should have your menu options for kde2. Make sure that the package does over-write the /etc/X11/window-managers file. -Chris In Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Gentile, Sam wrote: I finally got KDE2 installed on Mandrake 7.0

[newbie] voodo card (fwd)

2000-07-01 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Somebody in one of these lists sent me a rather long message on a video card question. I am sorry but becuase of a stupid error I made while copying mail from an old machine to a new one the message bounced. Can whoever sent it please resend it to me? I did not mean to be rude and bounce the

[Cooker] ANNOUNCE: KDE Snapshot Binaries available 2000-06-30

2000-06-30 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
ld suggest an upgrade. If you are running prior Alpha's I highly recommend you update. There are a lot of fixes and some structural changes in the packages. You will also find Source tar.gz's in the same directory. -- --- Christopher Molnar

Re: [newbie] Website

2000-06-28 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, Darryl Gibson wrote: Hi list, A club I belong to wants to create a web site to track it's membership's status, attendance, activity participation etc... The club would like the web site to have the following features: really not that tough. Accessibility to all

Re: [newbie] Upgrading from 7.0 to 7.1

2000-06-28 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
You probably won't like my answer :-( the update function is within a realease. That's why nothing shows up. You have a few choices, I leave to you to decide which is least painful: 1. Spend 20 bucks and buy the distro. 2. Download the iso's 3. Download each package you need. 4. use rsynce and

Re: [newbie] Qt2 - 2.1.1 rpm

2000-06-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
You can find it on any of the cooker mirrors. I updated it just after it was released. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, David Talbot wrote: rpmfind.net -DavidTalbot At 01:30 AM 6/15/00 +1000, you wrote: Can anyone tell me where I can get a copy of the qt2 V2.1.1 library in rpm format I

Re: [newbie] E-mail Clients

2000-06-14 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
kmail from KDE2 will do everything you desire. On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Corrado / Prometheus The Gifter wrote: Hello, everybody! I'm currently using the Netscape e-mail client along with Kmail; I'm looking for a client which features message filters and search and multiple pop accounts,

Re: [newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist

2000-05-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
I just checked the server, and logged into it. It is port 6667 and it does work. BitchX nickname us.mandrakesoft.com Chris On Sun, 21 May 2000, Armand Nossaint wrote: What's the port? Apparently not 6667 -- Armand Kenny wrote: Tried logging onto us.mandrake.com but it complains

Re: [newbie] Running KDE1.1.x and KDE2.0 Snapshots on same machine

2000-05-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
On Sun, 21 May 2000, Eric MC DECLERCK wrote: Hi all, I'm running MDK 7+ Is there anyone who's installed both kde's to run on the same machine ? Eric I am, and do follow the directions at http://www.kde.org/kde1-and-kde2.html they work well. Chris

Re: [newbie] Acer Travelmate Notebook installation

2000-05-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Can you give us the exact output of what the lilo prompt was? For example did it do: LIL and then hang, or LI and then hang? We can try and give you a hand if you can pass that on. Chris On Mon, 22 May 2000, Elvis Chan @Glink.net.hk wrote: Do you have any experience in installing Mandrake

Re: [newbie] Serial Mouse Hell

2000-05-21 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Skip the padded cell but check you BIOS setting first. Is the serial ports set up to AUTO ASSIGN IRQ's and port address? If yes, change it to a set irq/port address. Linux doesn't do well with the auto-assign on ports in bios. (talking from experience). Please let me know if that helps.

[newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist (fwd)

2000-05-20 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
It's on us.mandrakesoft.com, channel is #mandrake Hope that helps Chris -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 18:19:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Denis HAVLIK [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] us.mandrake.com doesnt seem to exist (fwd) Can you

Re: [newbie] FTP Question

2000-01-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Look in the /etc/ftpaccess file and find what file it is being pointed to. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] URGENT! Windows partion has gone! (fwd)

2000-01-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
what you used during the install process. --------- Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan

Re: [newbie] @home connection

2000-01-31 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
to conf.modules. The boot process only finds 1 card. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon

Re: [newbie] how do i get off this list

2000-01-30 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
"How do I unsubscribe" in the list. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, 3

Re: [newbie] linux problems

2000-01-29 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
You may also want to subscribe to the kde-user list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post the problem there as well. A lot of problems like this are solved very quickly on that list. - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC

[newbie] Kde2 PreAlpha binaries and rpm's available

2000-01-26 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
Hello! I have built a new set of binary distributions based on a CVS snapshot at 8:00am EST 1-25-2000. I have created both a RPM and a -BIN.TAR.GZ distribution. To those who have downloaded QTCOPY dated 01-19-2000 - You do not need to update this. Continue using the same qt copy. (file name

Re: [newbie] help( i may have a virus in linux)

2000-01-26 Per discussione Christopher Molnar
hope that helps! - Christopher Molnar New Enland Business Services, LLC Aetna, Inc. Hartford, CT USA Middletown, CT USA [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, David Cole wrote