Re: [newbie] Nvu rpms

2004-09-09 Per discussione Martin Foster
Thursday 09 Sep 2004 15:47, julie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone tried using the WYSIWYG html editor Nvu? There is now an rpm for Mandrake 10 available and, before installing the program I was wondering if anyone had experienced any glitches. I had a look at it quite a while ago and

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-05 Per discussione Martin Foster
Saturday 04 Sep 2004 21:53, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually

Re: [newbie] update installation

2004-09-04 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 12:25, john wrote: Hello I am updating md10 and keep getting a conflict message for the cups printer file and the printer utilites file. When trying to install together or indivually, the message says that installation failed due to one conflicting with the other.

[newbie] Cups drivers online update

2004-09-02 Per discussione Martin Foster
I've tried to install the cups-drivers online update without success. After the download finishes and the installation begins, I get a message to the effect that there's a conflict with /usr/lib/cups/backend/mtink and the installation then aborts. Exactly the same thing happens when I try to

Re: [newbie] Connect to ISP from command prompt

2004-08-07 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 10:36:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: Can somebody please give me instructions how to set up my MDK10 (Official) to dial into and connect with my ISP from the command prompt. If you have it already set up, running /sbin/ifup

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-10 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:11:56 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK

[newbie] Multiple monitor setup

2004-07-10 Per discussione Martin Foster
In my Linux box I have 2 graphics cards: 1. nVidia RIVA TNT2 (AGP) 2. 3dfx Voodoo Banshee (PCI) I have seperate monitors plugged into each graphics card, the idea being to use MDK 10's multiple monitor support. I've twiddled and fiddled with the setup and I just cannot get both monitors to

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Raffaele BELARDI wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: How to decypher dialupscript Where can I get a list of explanation of the messages the dial up window gives you in kppp ? John Not sure of what kppp prints since I

Re: [newbie] How to decypher dialupscript

2004-07-09 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 20:26:21 +0100, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Foster wrote: On Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:46:18 +0100, John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK ATM1L1 OK ATDT147008089916080 Why are you using 1470 in front of your ISP's phone number? Judging by your email address

Re: [newbie] Opera 7.51 Menu font is tiny

2004-07-02 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 15:54:01 +0300, EE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The opera menu font such File, etc is super tiny and hard to read. Anybody? Select Tools/Preferences/Fonts and then click on Interface menus in the Type column. Then click the Choose button and from there you can select the font,

[newbie] LS-120 media change

2004-06-25 Per discussione Martin Foster
After installing MDK 10 (Official), I have a Zip Disk icon on my KDE desktop which points to my internal LS-120 floppy drive. The first time I put a floppy in the drive and clicked on the icon, I was able to view the contents of the floppy. If I now put a different floppy in the drive and

[newbie] LS120/Zip drive woes

2004-01-21 Per discussione Martin Foster
Greetings! I've recently installed MDK 9.2 and I'm having no end of problems with my LS120 and my parallel port Zip drive: I use the LS120 floppy drive as both a 1.44Mb and 120Mb floppy drive and I do not have a seperate 1.44Mb floppy drive installed. The Zip drive is connected to LPT1 and

[newbie] Re: Copy To/Move To

2003-04-03 Per discussione Martin Foster
Thanks, that's what I've been doing but I much prefer the Copy To/Move To feature. What I liked about it was the Quick Browser method of navigating through the directories. Just a matter of personal preference really :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Just

[newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem

2003-04-03 Per discussione Martin Foster
this the first time I installed 9.1 In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to a user desktop :-) -- Martin Foster

[newbie] Copy To/Move To

2003-04-02 Per discussione Martin Foster
? -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Re: 9.1 Flakey installs, no internet dialer etc

2003-03-30 Per discussione Martin Foster
On Sunday 30 Mar 2003 3:47 am, Keith wrote: Has anyone else had problems with 9.1? Yes, lots! :-( [..] NO internet dialer... You need to run MenuDrake, click on Menu Style and then have a look at which menus have been installed. To solve the problem of the missing PPP dialer, you need to

[newbie] LS-120 formatting

2003-03-22 Per discussione Martin Foster
Pardon my ignorance but how do I format a 120Mb floppy disk under Mandrake 9 -- Martin Foster Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

2000-04-23 Per discussione Martin Foster
g" file to see what your system thinks it is. Also note that you cannot eject your zip disk until you umount the zip drive. Hope this helps; Bruce :-) Martin Foster wrote: Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access al

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

2000-04-23 Per discussione Martin Foster
4 /mnt/zip or mount -t msdos /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip Fourth, a simpler way to do this is to use DrakConf/linuxconf to set up the filesystem and let it do the work for the options and the mounting. Civileme Martin Foster wrote: Hi! OK, I've done all that but I still can't access the dri

[newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

2000-04-22 Per discussione Martin Foster
Hi! Just having spent a couple of days installing and configuring Mandrake, I find that I can access all my drives *except* my internal ATAPI Zip drive. Can someone please tell me if it's possible to access it and if so, how? Regards, Martin

Re: [newbie] Internal ATAPI Zip drive

2000-04-22 Per discussione Martin Foster
cal drives are iconised on the desktop. Neat, eh? I'm tying to get at the IBM Lotus. Sorry, can't help there. Sparks Regards, Martin - Original Message - From: Martin Foster To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2000 9:33 AM Subject: [newbie] Internal ATAPI