Re: [[newbie] hp 722c in 6.1 and howto start oss at boot time]

1999-10-30 Per discussione Don Whitman
The hp 722c is a winprinter. It needs windows to work. There is a program out there that works with ghostscript called ppa. You can find it at www.httptech.com.ppa .It only works with black and white. Your best bet probably is to buy a new printer if you want color. D Brandon Somogie [EMAIL

[newbie] update problelms?

1999-10-23 Per discussione Don Whitman
I just tried to update for the first time. I am running mandrake 6.0. I selected all updates which was quite a lot. It took about one and a half hours to download. Then when it was installing I got an error (do not remember exact message) and was asked to either force or quit so I forced. I then

[newbie] tnt nvidia 32mg?

1999-10-22 Per discussione Don Whitman
I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on my brothers machine. He has the tnt nvidia 32mg video card. During install linux recognized the video card but had problems with the ram. The probe did not work. It said unable to detect ram. It kept wanting us to retry. Is there any way to get it to work

Re: [Re: [newbie] tnt nvidia 32mg?]

1999-10-22 Per discussione Don Whitman
Already tried not to probe and checked the 8mb or more selection but still had problems. Has anyone else got the tnt nvidia to work with mandrake 6.0 Thanks D John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, you wrote: I am trying to install Mandrake 6.0 on my brothers machine. He has

[newbie] Internet Problems-can't locate server

1999-09-17 Per discussione Don Whitman
I think I did something while being root. I was in linuxconf just exploring not doing anything. I believe the only thing I did was in the status of system menu. I believe I activated the changes. I did not look at the changes before. I didn't use linux for a day or two. When I came back I could

Re: [Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf is missing]

1999-09-04 Per discussione Don Whitman
Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:br I recently had a melt down. I messed around with the monitor settings. When Ibr rebooted everything was messed up. So I re-installed. Now I can only connectbr to the web as root. When I am a normal user I get an error

Re: [Re: [newbie] /etc/resolv.conf is missing]

1999-09-04 Per discussione Don Whitman
Paul Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, you wrote:br I recently had a melt down. I messed around with the monitor settings. When Ibr rebooted everything was messed up. So I re-installed. Now I can only connectbr to the web as root. When I am a normal user I get an error

[newbie] PPA?

1999-08-23 Per discussione Don Whitman
I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still some files I need to add. I have some questions

Re: [Re: [newbie] PPA?]

1999-08-23 Per discussione Don Whitman
Steve Spiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don Whitman wrote: I unfortunately have a HP 722c printer. I am trying to install ppa. I downloaded ppa to my home directory, extracted the archive, changed directories, and compiled the program (to the best of my knowledge). There are still

[RE: [newbie] Floppy?]]

1999-07-24 Per discussione Don Whitman
"Thomas J. Hamman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote: It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the floppy. There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy. Don Well, it's not normal behavior (it only gave me that problem on on

[newbie] Floppy?

1999-07-23 Per discussione Don Whitman
I have some floppy questions. I am able to mount a floppy disk if it is a DOS disk. I even was able to pull up some JPG images off a DOS disk. I reformated a 1.44 disk using Kfloppy to the ext2 file system. When I try to mount this floppy I get an error messages stating; could not mount floppy,

[newbie] virus?

1999-07-14 Per discussione Don Whitman
Does linux have any viruses to worry about? What about the future. There are some really wack people out there!!! Don Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.

[newbie] Turtle Beach Montego

1999-07-12 Per discussione Don Whitman
Has anyone had any luck finding the drivers for the Turtle Beach Montego sound card. I thought I read something about "open sound source for linux" having a beta version out. Does anyone know the address? Does it work? Don

Re: [Re: [newbie] reached maximal mount count]

1999-07-10 Per discussione Don Whitman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9 Jul, Don Whitman wrote: Fellow newbies, I have reached maximal mount count. More specifically, When I start linux, when it gets to Checking Root file system it says; /dev/hda5 has reached maximal mount count, check forced. Then it does nothing. I would of course

[newbie] screensaver

1999-07-09 Per discussione Don Whitman
Hi all! My screen saver only stays on for one minute. Is this how it works in linux? Also my power-management is not working. It never goes into powerdown or standby? I am running mandrake 6.0 in kde. Later Don Get your own