Re: [newbie] hostname: bash-2.05

2001-09-09 Per discussione Jay DeKing
The later version of bash does not mess up your bashrc, but it won't restore your lost one either, if I understand you correctly. Jay On Friday 07 September 2001 11:17, I was honored with this communique: right, some more interesting facts i have just discovered: i have lost the pretty

Re: [newbie] install Star Office freezes mouse mdk80

2001-09-01 Per discussione Jay DeKing
It sounds like you are using XFree86 4.0.x - I haven't tried StarOffice with the latest (4.1?) but I know it does not play well with 4.0.3, especially if you have an S3-based graphics card. I had to completely purge XFree86 4.0.3 and use Xfree86 3.3.6 instead. Works like a charm. StarOffice 6

Re: [newbie] Konqueror Problem

2001-07-27 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I had the same problem until I upgraded to LM8.0 with KDE 2.1.2 and Konqueror 2.1.1. Occasionally it pops up again but only rarely. What versions of KDEand Konqueror are you using? Jay On Thursday 26 July 2001 h:05, Darren wrote: Hey everyone, another minor problem. Konqueror will not

Re: [newbie] Change package architecture?

2001-07-08 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I would say the best path to take would be to get the source rather than the rpm, and compile it yourself. The process is pretty staightforward if you accept the default settings, and there is usually a README file - although the process usually consists of: ./configure make make install

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Per discussione Jay DeKing
On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so far I'm pretty satisfied. Having worked

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Per discussione Jay DeKing
On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote: On Sun, 01 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: On Sunday 01 July 2001 05:42 pm, RobertLuzader wrote: Perhaps someone can give a newbie some advice. I recently purchased Mandrake 8.0 and so

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Per discussione Jay DeKing
and my TVcard all using the same irq caused problems with MDK 8.0 and I had to move some of the cards around for a different setup. On Wednesday 04 July 2001 02:44, Jay DeKing wrote: On Wed, 04 Jul 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: On Tue, 03 Jul 2001, Romanator wrote: Jay DeKing wrote

Re: [newbie] StarOffice and Linux2.4.3-20mdk

2001-07-04 Per discussione Jay DeKing
to me until later. Just glad to have LM8 running again with StarOffice along for the ride. Thanks for the suggestions, Jay On Wednesday 04 July 2001 13:17, Jay DeKing wrote: I have a USB printer. No TV card, no network card. The only ISA card I have is my modem (only one ISA slot, the rest are PCI

Re: [newbie] curious ....

2001-06-29 Per discussione Jay DeKing
First, I never gave a second look at a Mac. First off at that time APPLE was Neither did I. My sum total experience using Macs is about 2 hours, back in the 1980's on a microscopic Mac with a black white screen the size of a postcard. That was enough for me. Plus the proprietary, overpriced

Re: [newbie] StarOffice freezes in 8.0

2001-06-28 Per discussione Jay DeKing
and network it with my newer machine, where I will reinstall LM 8.0. Right now I just don't have room to do this. Later Jay On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Jay DeKing wrote: I finally received my 8.0 Power Pack, and everything looks great, but Star Office won't run. When I click on the Star Office icon

[newbie] StarOffice freezes in 8.0

2001-06-24 Per discussione Jay DeKing
correspond correctly to my hardware. StarOffice worked like a charm in 7.2, and I have a lot of very important data locked up in those spreadsheets. Any help that can be provided would be appreciated. Thanks, Jay DeKing

Re: [newbie] Linux bashing again by Intel??

2001-06-24 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I have to agree with Sridhar on this. I didn't choose Linux because I expected Plug'n'Play. If I wanted a Mac (ewww!) I would have bought a Mac. I expected a learning experience; that's what I like in my hobbies. Since installing my first Linux distro some 7 or 8 months ago, I've acquired an

Re: [newbie] change hostname

2001-06-17 Per discussione Jay DeKing
Ah, yes, I forget about that one. Also the DOMAIN line in the same file. On Sunday 17 June 2001 00:18, you wrote: You should also change the line in /etc/sysconfig/network for HOSTNAME On 15 Jun 2001 20:39:03 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: I've never had any luck with the hostname command

Re: [newbie] change hostname

2001-06-15 Per discussione Jay DeKing
to fix the usual offenders (such as chmods and chowns) Jay DeKing On Friday 15 June 2001 10:46, Tim Holmes wrote: You can also use the hostname command. Just type hostname mymachine.name.domain.com That will do the trick as well. That's what I've used in FreeBSD. Since there's no Linuxconf

Re: [newbie] Wow

2001-06-15 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I have to agree with you there, Solver. I'm giving KDE a thorough test now, though, since I somehow trashed my Sawfish. I can get other wm's to work with Gnome but I love my Fish too much, so I'm doing the KDE thing. KDE just has a cold feel to me. Gnome gives me a warm feeling and like you

Re: [newbie] strange installation issue..

2001-05-28 Per discussione Jay DeKing
Ah, yes, you have libc.so.6, BUT ... I betcha it's just a link to an older version than 2.2! I have received the same message when trying to install certain rpms; tried to fix it by updating my glibc package to 2.2 but there are other dependencies that rpm -Uvh complains about. I guess I'm just

Re: [newbie] Installing Quake 3 Arena on Linux Mandrake. How?

2001-05-28 Per discussione Jay DeKing
Or you can just run sh linuxq3ademo-1_11-6_x86_gz.sh (without the quotes) from a command prompt. I would change the permissions to executable, myself, but this is another option if for some reason you can't do the chmod or are uncomfortable doing so. Jay Michael D. Viron wrote: Martijn,

Re: [newbie] Mandrake Update fails every time

2001-05-26 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I use Mandrake Update as a reference tool only. It has never once removed the previously existing version of anything I have updated. What I do is open a terminal window and login as su, then run Mandrake Update to see what needs an upgrade; I open a browser window and go to whichever mirror

Re: [newbie] kppp

2001-05-19 Per discussione Jay DeKing
I found that kppp would not even hang up the phone line unless I shut down the machine. I couldn't get gnome's ppp client to work at all; now I'm using xISP and all is good in the world. Jay Bill Winegarden wrote: Hi, My son logged off his account without stopping kppp. A few

[newbie] Numlock in X : solved!!

2001-05-15 Per discussione Jay DeKing
Paul wrote: It was quite simple: In .xinitrc add: # Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists # (as it seems to be the new standard) if [ -d $HOME/Desktop/Autostart ]; then for i in `ls -1 ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2/dev/null`; do if [ -x

Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)

2001-04-27 Per discussione Jay DeKing
philomena wrote: How about posting what is in your menu.lst - maybe its not booting from the proper kernel image ?? philomena At 10:38 PM 4/26/01 -0400, Jay DeKing wrote: OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get

Re: [newbie] Re: Retain MBR (reload GRUB?)

2001-04-26 Per discussione Jay DeKing
OK, so I logged in as root, ran /boot/grub/install.sh (after making sure that menu.lst was correct) - I still get stage1 Read Error. What am I missing here? GRUB ran fine when I installed Mandrake 7.2, then I had a Win98 disaster and had to completely format hda1. Linux is on hdb. I should think

[newbie] Re: Supermount problems

2001-04-21 Per discussione Jay DeKing
Hmm, I didn't mention my cd-roms. But, I do have a problem with the one that's a burner; if I try to access it my machine locks up. Hard. The only way to break out of it is a cold boot (power switch). Civileme tried to help me with it but I never did get it to work. As far as the fd* entries in

[newbie] Re: [expert] Supermount problems

2001-04-20 Per discussione Jay DeKing
to the floppy group, and there is *no* zip group listed. Hoping this post doesn't bounce back like my previous attempt, Jay DeKing Try adding yourself to the cdrom and zip groups. --- Praedor Tempus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a ppa zip drive and 2 cdroms setup with supermount. Only root is

Re: [newbie] problems with MandrakeUpdate

2001-04-20 Per discussione Jay DeKing
ry install, and have updated the rpm database from the command line as well. Note that this does not happen with every rpm, but the ones it does happen with do it every time. Regardez, Jay DeKing Salvatore Eric Indiogine wrote: MandrakeUpdate in MDK 7.2 is buggy. This is my persnal wa