RE: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-22 Per discussione John Hendrickx
configuration will work for that session, but not after a reboot. I'm using Linux-Mandrake 7.0, so things could be different on your system. Good luck, John Hendrickx --- William Presho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not exactly sure where the save configuration button is could you give me a hint. B

Re: [newbie] Unable to get Cable Modem Working

2000-10-21 Per discussione John Hendrickx
I'd never checked! Not implying that you're quite as clueless as I was, but it might be worth checking. John Hendrickx - Original Message - From: "William Presho" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All I know this has probably been discussed here before, but I can't find an

Re: [newbie] mandrake 7.1 vs sound

2000-10-20 Per discussione John Hendrickx
DMA channels Windows is using if your card isn't recognized. If you've got the right driver and have configured it properly but it fails the test, try rebooting. Good luck, John Hendrickx please help, i really want to learn linux and try to get away fro

Re: [newbie] clock in title-bar

2000-10-18 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: Is there a clock program that will display the time in a digital form in the title-bar of the active window? I want to autohide the Johntry either: xclock or asclock "xclock -d" will display a dig

Re: [newbie] Adding dirs to the path

2000-10-16 Per discussione John Hendrickx
3) Is it a standard *nix security configuration to not search the current directory? Most annoying for an OS/2, Win32, DOS based person. grin...I recall an explanation of this at one point but I can't recall There's an answer to this in the comp.unix.questions faq. The example they give

[newbie] boot stops at syslog

2000-10-15 Per discussione John Hendrickx
ed into Windows, but found that internet wasn't responding properly (couldn't load web pages, but telnet and mail worked fine). Was Linux perhaps just encountering network problems at boot time, and should I have just waited? Thanks for any information, John Hendrickx ___

[newbie] kde menus

2000-10-15 Per discussione John Hendrickx
on. KDE is a bit too much like Windows 95, thinks it knows what you want better than you do. Any solutions? An alternative app-launcher might be good, something like on-cue or Apollo for the Macintosh, if anyone is familiar with those. Advance thank

Re: [newbie] kde menus

2000-10-15 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fortunately, if you're smarter than the interface, you can fix it in the Linux case :-) My guess is that you've got an ownership problem from all the jumping back and forth between root and yourself when you have been changing this stuff. It's

Re: [newbie] kde menus

2000-10-15 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- A V Flinsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It all has to do with the switch to the Debian menuing system in 7.1 take a peek at the entries in /etc/menu and /usr/lib/menu along with whatever is in /usr/doc/menu-2.1.5/menu.txt No, I'm using version 7.0. I did a deja-news search and someone

Re: [newbie] bad table partitions in mandrake install

2000-10-14 Per discussione John Hendrickx
the problem. Someone else had a similar problem this week, couldn't boot Windows, couldn't boot DOS from a floppy either. So proceed with caution, an incorrect partition table can really screw up your system. Good luck, John Hendrickx __ Do You Yahoo!? Yah

Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab

2000-10-14 Per discussione John Hendrickx
Frankly, I don't understand why it causes problems its set to nice=+19 sets it at the lowest priority. You must have your system really loaded when it runs for it to slow things down much. You're right, nice=+19 is lowest priority. I looked up the nice command in a Unix manual, it said

Re: [newbie] security.sh in crontab

2000-10-13 Per discussione John Hendrickx
- From: "John Hendrickx" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 2:17 PM Subject: [newbie] security.sh in crontab I've noticed that my machine starts accessing the disks and slows to a crawl at 12:00 midnight. I've traced the problem to a line in

Re: [newbie] wp8

2000-10-12 Per discussione John Hendrickx
I disagree. The fonts look awful (why can't WP just use the fonts provided by the OS? I've got my truetype fonts working now and they look fine in other applications). WP also insists on using its own printer drivers (what's the OS for guys?), and my printer isn't listed (works with other apps

Re: [newbie] Can not boot to windows after installation

2000-10-12 Per discussione John Hendrickx
t sure that wouldn't cause data loss. Partition magic would be useful for a situation like this if you have it. Good luck, John Hendrickx --- Ercan Solak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi bascule, I tried removing the line you mentioned in lilo.conf and when I run lilo it complained about

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Per discussione John Hendrickx
935 1212876 83 Linux Here's the complete layout of my master IDE. Everything's as it should be according to this. Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does anyone know how to fix it? All help appreciated, John Hendrickx

Re: [newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-08 Per discussione John Hendrickx
--- Alan Shoemaker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Hendrickx wrote: Bottom line is that my partition table is all screwed up. Does anyone know how to fix it? Johnthe problem I see is that the ending cylinder of hda10 (Linux) and the beginning cylinder of hda6 (Fat32) are the same

[newbie] Can't boot into Windows!

2000-10-07 Per discussione John Hendrickx
I've screwed up badly. I installed Linux on the second segment of my primary IDE drive and now I can't boot into Windows 95. What's more, if I boot from a floppy my c-disk or any other hard disk isn't recognized anymore. Help! I've tried fdisk /mbr from a floppy, that didn't work. The Windows

[newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq

2000-10-05 Per discussione John Hendrickx
by the compatibility of Linux, BTW. I'd expected to have to buy at least a new sound card for my el-cheapo clone machine, and I was sure this printer would be a large paperweight as far as Linux was concerned. Driver support is great. John Hendrickx