On Saturday 20 December 2003 05:37 pm, jason pearl wrote:
I haven't had the pleasure (?) of assembling an AMD64 or Opteron system
for anyone yet, since they are still in the; An arm, a leg, and possibly
the content of the dexter sector of the scrotum price range around
here. If they're
Well, looks like I'm going to give up again.. I hate going back to
microsoft, but I really hate that I have to troubleshoot this much to get
my drivers working. I wanted to install linux so I could start learning
it, not learn it so I could start using it. At this stage in the OS
world, I don't
I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably.
Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition - Clean Install
I currently am not booting into KDE, but it is installed
Hardware:
AMD XP 2600+/333
K7NCR18D-Pro (Leadtek nforce2)
1GB PC2700 DDR333
Maxtor 40GB ATA133
Radeon 9700
ASUS
Hi Stephen,
Sunday, September 28, 2003, 4:28:24 PM, you wrote:
SK On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 16:53, Lance Cummings wrote:
Okay, before I go out and smell the dioxins, there is one item of
urgent (for me, anyway) business:
Please look at the following URL in both Mozilla and Konqueror:
SK WHACK
Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after upping to
RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it produces an
error window:
Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory
file:/home/lance/.kde/share/apps/kicker/Welcome.desktop does not
exist.
Should I
On Saturday 27 September 2003 15:48, Charlie M. wrote:
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September 27, 2003 12:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after
upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it
produces
Hi Greg
On Saturday 27 September 2003 20:23, Greg Meyer wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after
upping to RC2. Looks kind of like a little gear. Clicking it
produces an error window:
Unable to run
from
hurting the monitor. ^_^
Thanks for your help Richard. Please keep an eye on my threads so
you can grasp just how much one human being does not know.
Lance
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On Sunday 28 September 2003 00:28, Charlie M. wrote:
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On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:06 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
Got this new little app-launch button on the taskbar after
upping to RC2
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:38, yankl wrote:
The gear icons you see means that system could not find an icon
for specific file.
Think you are right, sir. No need to keep that icon around at all
then.
Lance
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On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:56, yankl wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 05:10 am, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:42 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
That is *not*, however, something one expects
of an upgrade routine.
Lance, anything on Cooker is not at release status
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:35, Derek wrote:
On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 1:13 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
y Bad idea, If your computer connected to the Internet. Even
though, the number y of viruses/trojans for LINUX is miniscule
it not 0. Given all user root y rights will increase chance
On Sunday 28 September 2003 01:17, Derek wrote:
On Saturday 27 Sep 2003 6:42 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 14:02, yankl wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty
unhappy
. It took an entire 180 seconds or
so to download ~35 MB. Someone throttled me. g I understand.
Lance
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you all reckon?
Lance
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File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for
root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the
password. My experience is that this check box don't mean a thing.
Anyone else?
Lance
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or so of the
button, then fades fast. Ugly as sin IMHO. Where the title of the
application is short (does not fill the button), there is no
problem. But if the title extends to the right side of the button,
the text fades out.
Lance
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft?
Go
not with StarOffice.
A secret of X revealed Raffaele. Thanks.
Do you know how to get Mozilla to fire instead of Konqueror when
double-clicking one of these?
Lance
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Hi Anne,
Friday, September 26, 2003, 7:38:23 PM, you wrote:
AW On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
File manager su mode and Mandrake Control Center both prompt for
root's secret of course. And both have a check box to keep the
password. My experience is that this check box
KMail is?
Yes, upgrade was selected from the install routine.
Lance
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On Saturday 27 September 2003 14:02, yankl wrote:
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:27 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
I put Cooker RC2 over my Bamboo last night, and I'm pretty
unhappy that I did so.
---8---
Kde packages after 3.1.2 got really segmented first try to run
kmail from cli. If you
Hi Richard,
Wednesday, September 24, 2003, 6:01:57 PM, you wrote:
trimmed where appropriate
RU On Wednesday 24 Sep 2003 4:39 am, Lance Cummings wrote:
It's possible they are all wrong.
RU Not at all. They are all using different dot clock frequencies to give
RU you the same display.
Well
on the next boot.
So, this is still rather discouraging, and I still find it rather
amazing that there is no user database for this.
Thanks for the help.
Lance
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interesting
information to have.
Lance
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they are. Isn't this
kind of embarrassing to the community? Our eyes are the basic
interface with the box. I will not use an OS that hasn't figured
that much out.
Lance
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Hi Paul,
Tuesday, September 23, 2003, 9:25:42 AM, you wrote:
HF On Mon, 22 Sep 2003 15:17:04 +0100 Derek Jennings
HF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
HF chops down an Oak
Hey calm down Lance. I was not saying you cannot control refresh rate
in Linux. Merely that it is not as simple as just selecting
on demand.
DJ Have fun.
Thanks. One more question comes to mind. I'm on 100 MB/second
glass, and my wife and I share the connection through a router. The
install routine will figure out how to get me connected?
Thanks again.
Lance
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,
but not delete from the server with Kmail. Anyone know real quick
how to set that up before turning on Kmail by giving it access to
my server?
Thanks to everyone who's chipping in here.
Lance
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as 'the best ever' has me intrigued.
Thanks.
Lance Dow
The site listed below is THE best iptables tutorial I've seen yet. this
fella really know what he's talking about and puts it in plain, simple
english. you can't miss with this one.
http://people.unix-fu.org/andreasson/iptables-tutorial
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have the option so it's obviously program dependent.
Lance Dow
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On Thursday 29 November 2001 3:15 am, pesarif wrote:
In Konqueror:
Tools - Archive Web Page.
I'm using KDE 2.2. My Tools menu only has Run Command..., Open
Terminal... and Find file
What am I doing wrong?
Please help!
Go to the 'Location' menu and use 'Save as...'.
Lance
but I
couldn't get it to work.
Has anyone made this player work? Any pointers? Does it sound better?
Anyone able to recommend a superior sounding mp3 player?
Thanks
Lance Dow
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I was wanting to switch from KDE to Helix Gnome.
You need to add "exec gnome-session" if you want to use Gnome to xinitrc.
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SUBSCRIBED TO EITHER LIST! THANKS!
Lance
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Do You Yahoo!?
Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger.
http://im.yahoo.com
Netscape is the same on both platforms so this should work for you
too.
If I can help further
Lance
thanks to all who helped out.
Regards
Lance
Hi There
I posted the message below to the list on Saturday. So far, I've had only
one response which, unfortunatly, didn't take me forward in any meaningful
way (thanks anyway Paul). I can't believe no one else knows the answer.
Can sombody help me out... please?
Lance
Pronto! for email, I was using Netscape
w/o problems as well (just that Pronto! is 100x better than Netscape).
So, give Pronto! a try and you can get rid of your Windoze email. :)
Lance
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 22:29:59 -0400, Doug McGarrett said:
Does anybody know how to write umlauts and ess-tsets
the new kernel
instead of the old one? And, which file is that that needs to be changed?
Thanks for the help!
Lance
bscription.
You actually explained this towards the end of your post. Maybe you should have
started at that end :-).
Regards
Lance
of RAM. I expect to upgrade it in the next few months to
something like an Athlon 700 with maybe 128M of RAM.
I look forward to your learned responses. Thanks in advance.
Regards
(Another) Lance
try this page to find the best driver for your specific printers.
Lance
I'm running Mdk 6.1 and the command that works for me (100 Meg zip) is
'modprobe ppa'
Is that what you tried?
Off the top of my head, I can't remember what else (if anything) there is to do.
Lance
Hugh wrote:
I decided to use my old ppa zip instead of buying a new one
Trouble is I cant find
no shit sherlock; thanks so much for your constructive post.
lance
On 11 Jun 2000, Jaguar wrote:
Ever heard of backing up critical data??
Jaguar
of data GONE. It's ironic too,
because Mandrake has this "easy to use and install" perception about it, but
that was by no means my experience with this product. At any rate, I'd like to
thank the people that have helped out.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Lance
No offense me
ok, now i've had it...i have been trying to get lilo to work on my system for
awhile, and something just happened to where i can't access my windows 2000
partition that sits on my my 1st hard drive. i don't know what happened, but i
have been booting into mandrake with a floppy since lilo won't
onic too,
because Mandrake has this "easy to use and install" perception about it, but
that was by no means my experience with this product. At any rate, I'd like to
thank the people that have helped out.
Charles A Edwards wrote:
Lance
No offense meant to Paul but do not f
go to kde control center - (should be on your kpanel), sound- system
sounds...check the enable system sounds box, then highlight an action on the
left, then match it to one on the right that corresponds to that action by
selecting it, hit apply, then do that for each sound event you want to use.
can somebody please help me with the problem below in my original post?
thanks.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Lance wrote:
hi everyone,
i recently bought (macmillan) mandrake 7.0 deluxe and am having trouble
with the install, mostly getting lilo to work. i have 2 drives in my
machine with windows
and am new to mandrake/red hat, so any help
with this would be greatly appreciated! really looking forward to going
back to linux after a 6 month hiatus...many thanks!
best regards,
lance
Hey y'all,
When I'm using Netscape and come across a .png image, I get a stupid error
message that the file type is unsupported or unknown. Anybody know what I need
to do to get Netscape recognizing these? Thanks!
Lance
Apparently so! :)
LB
Vic wrote:
Can we say "booger", "poop", "diarrhea", or "fart"?
Vic
On Tue, 09 May 2000, Michael R. Batchelor wrote:
This "filtering" isn't done by Mandrake, but by someone's site who is
subscribed to the list. I've gotten a couple back from the same site
Andrew,
Sorry to be so long before replying to your email. I've got an Epson 740 running
beautifully on my Mdk 6.1 system. I got a driver for the 740 from
http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html. If you're still having some
trouble, you might give this driver a shot.
Lance
Andrew
Martin Solms wrote:
Does Mandrake 7 include a default HTML editor (not including Netsape)?
then, has anyone had any luck installing CoffeeCup
(http://www.coffeecup.com) on Mandrake?
Cheers
Martin,
I tried out a few of the html editors, including coffee cup, and settled on
Bluefish.
LB
wolfen999 wrote:
i am downloading the latestest rpms for xwindows 4.0 now i am wondering if they
can be installed using kpackage or do they have to be installed via console if
so how do you insatll and rpm from the command prompt ?
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"Potts, Douglas" wrote:
This has probably been asked a million times but can anyone recommend a good
book for a newbie!
Regards,
Doug Potts
I really like Linux: Installation, Configuration, Use 2nd Ed., by Kofler
lb
... what's the difference between the earlier versions and mdk7? This seems to
be the question.
So, anyone out there have the answer? Anyone have a parallel port zip running
w/mdk7? If you do, seems like there's a lot of people needing your help!
Lance
Bruce Hilliker wrote:
Jon wrote:
Mani
it a shot?
Lance
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I have not gotten my External Parallel Port ZIP Drive to work yet either.
Will advise you though in your addition to 'fstab' file:
/dev/hdd /mnt/zipdiskvfatuser,noauto,rw 0 0
n the list.
Finally, for my purposes, I only need 'modprobe ppa' and not parport (however, I
do notice that doing 'modprobe ppa' will install the parport module -- strange,
huh? Or maybe it's all bundled together now, I don't know!).
Lance
the zip, you need to create a mount point in the directory
(e.g., /mnt/zip). So, create the directory, then put a zip disk in the drive and
do the following
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 mnt/zip
That should get you going.
Lance
have your modem set correctly (/dev/ttyS0 is the
same as com1) -- in the setup choose the device tab and select the correct modem
device ..ttyS0 (or S1 for com2, S2 for com3...). Also, seems like I had to
switch the default flow control setting to xon/xoff. Otherwise I'm probably not
much help to you.
Lance
Mike Koceja wrote:
Okay here is the problem. I configured kppp without
any problems and it dials and connects to my ISP just
fine. Right up until right after it tells me what
speed I am connected at. At this point it tries to
logon to a network when it fails so does ppp. I'm sure
the command
#mount /dev/zip /mnt/zip?
Another thing I checked...my fstab file doesn't have the 'exec' that yours does.
Don't know if it belongs there or if it would make a difference...
Lance
the "outside world" for stuff related to
linux. The best way to find resources, drivers, software, etc. is to use linux
web sites. It's a lot easier and faster (and you find a lot more stuff).
Lance
our
models. This is where I got the driver for mine. It also has great installation
instructions!
Lance
stion I've had to
now has been answered by this book or this list - often in combination!
Lance
"Lisa J. Harris" wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm still pretty new to Linux, and have a couple books already, but
am not completely satisfied with them; I was wondering what books
you all have f
Usually the INSTALL file is one that tells you how to install. But clicking it
should just open the text file...strange. You might click on README and see
what's in that file. To install, you would normally open a console and cd into
the directory that untarring created, then type './configure'.
tand from the people on this list, Mdk 6.5 is the same as 6.1. My Mdk
6.1 uses the gcc compiler, which is called pgcc on the installation disk. So,
look on your installation cd for the rpm packages called pgcc, pgcc-c+, pgcc...
I believe installing these will get you the make command.
Lance
a movie, I had to sit in front of the computer for 4
hours moving the mouse every couple of minutes. Don't know if that problem is
related, but you might keep your eyes out when doing a big download.
Lance
Joerg Reinhardt wrote
How are you trying to log in? During the installation you should have set up an
account for "root" w/a password, and at least one user account w/password. If
you've been trying the user name and password, give it a shot as root: i.e.,
the username or login name is 'root' (w/o quotes), then the
;conv=auto" instances,
but I'm not sure -- just trying to spark someone's memory. You can also look at
the bug fixes on the Mdk site. There's something about it there, too.
Lance
Adam Stark wrote:
Hi,
I've been having some problems lately getting read/write permissions for
regular use
the permissions. I've come
a step closer, but I'm not there yet!
Somehow I think I must be needing to do permissions elsewhere...but now I'm
clueless as to where.
Thanks for the help in advance!
Lance
I'll add those wishes to the wish list, and thanks for the help on the address
book. I'll have to try that this weekend and see if it will work.
Lance
(PS: from Ga, using Linux...Braves fan? Boy, that would be a good combination!)
Lane Lester wrote:
Lance wrote:
Hey, thanks a lot! Your tip
that a try and see if that
gets you past this error.
Lance
"Lawrence G." wrote:
I'm getting the following error message when I use Lothar Soundconfig
utility.
error in modprobe call!
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/ad1848.o: invalid parameter mpu.io
I also notice that during bo
Joerg Reinhardt wrote:
my system
hung up... but why? What have I done wrong? Why allways me? I guess I'm the
only one, working with Linux, wich exit's Linux by power switch each third
time, cause it hung up.
No, Joerg, you aren't the only one! I've used the power switch several times
The documentation claims that K6 processors are Pentium class. I have a
K6-2/266 that is working beautifully with Linux.
Lance
GECOS wrote:
James Mellema wrote:
I think it unlikely that your install will succeed. Mandrake is
optimized for pentium class CPUs, and will not perform
Lane Lester wrote:
Lance Borden said:
I can send mail without any problem, but when I click on the get mail icon, I
see the status window pop up: connecting...logging on...sending password, then
nothing. I know the password is entered correctly, but it stops every time at
the point
to
recompile.
Lance
/somehow else.
Lance
, but is that not
necessarily true? I'm at the end of my knowledge and would appreciate any help
y'all have! Thanks in advance,
Lance
BTW, I've got it set up for POP3
. Seems like some programs "don't like" to be started from the icons in
kfm, but will then run from a command line. Not sure why, though.
Lance
. Haven't tried anything just yet,
so I would like to get your thoughts...where should I start? Which is the
easiest to use for a guy coming from Page Mill? Which offers the best features?
Thanks in advance for your input!
Lance
you click on the /mnt directory
icon, kfm hangs (regardless of whether or not something has been mounted)? That
was my problem...
The solution posted on this list by Denis Havlik is to go into /etc/fstab and
remove all "conv=auto" entries.
I tried this and it worked for me! :)
Lance
I'm a Texan, and an Aggie, and I LOVE a good Redneck or Aggie joke (or about
Tx).
I used to watch Dukes of Hazzard all the time, so this joke "hits close to home"
-- it's a great one!
Lance (the Redneck) :-)
Josh McCaffrey wrote:
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, you wrote:
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bluebottle wrote:
IHas anyone a good suggestion for
an ftp prog (like Cuteftp) that I can use.
Have you tried gftp or Igloo-FTP. They seem pretty good to me.
LB
, though. :)
Lance
craig jameson wrote:
I have just recently installed Linux on my system (mandrake6.1) and I am
having a few problems in changing over from Windows (maybe I should not
have put a capitol at the start of it?) please can anyone help with any
of the following, bearing in mind that I have only
Brent Timmer wrote:
I tried all of the ones for deskjet printers
Brent,
You might be able to find a new driver for your hp by going to
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
Lance
Audrey Beck wrote:
Lance Borden wrote:
I'm at a dead end here...sure hope y'all have some insight!
I'm trying to recompile my kernel for my zip100 parallel port drive. When I get
to the 'make bzImage' step, I get the following error message every time:
gcc -06 -fomit-frame-pointer
Audrey Beck wrote:
Lance Borden wrote:
I'm at a dead end here...
[major cutting...]
I'm no help on the compile problem. But do you need to recompile the
kernel for your zip drive? I thought you just loaded the ppo module for
parallel port zip?
Audrey,
I just sent a response
to help you in your search for a good printer:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
Lance
this error means and how I can fix it? Thanks so
much for your help!
Lance
.
Lance
"ChOPpY C. Chipper" wrote:
it doesn't say "modem is busy or whatever".
instead now, it just stops when it says "initiliazing modem"
don't know how to continue, modem dosen't click like when it onrmally starts
dialing! I have enabled xon/xoff, which fiex my original problem!
Thanks a
ch is not
correct. Also, I had to change the default flow control setting from crtscts to
xon/xoff. Then it worked perfectly.
Regarding your other questions, I'm sorry but I don't have the answers.
Lance
have because I have LM 6.1)
Try /dev/ttys0 (this would correspond to com1 in 'doze), /dev/ttys1 (com2)...
Also, I had to change the default flow control to xon/xoff
Works perfectly!
Lance
I need to get a new scanner, one that will work with my Linux.
Any of y'all have an HP 3200 up and running with Linux. It wasn't listed on the
Sane site, but it's the right price and easily available for me.
Or, any recommendations from someone using a scanner under $200?
THANKS!
Lance
/RPM/index.html
That's where I normally look for stuff,and usually find it.
lance
king about the 700, do you mean "only" 700, or
would the driver include the entire 700 range (i.e., anything between 700-799)?
Thanks for the help!
Lance
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