Re: [newbie] min spec's for 10.1

2005-04-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 07 April 2005 15:14, Tim wrote: Where can i find earlier versions of Mandrake Linux suitable to work on a Pentium 233 with 80 MB ram. Why not use Gentoo, where each package is compiled on the fly for the processor in question? I have a Pentium 266 laptop with 144mb, that runs

Re: [newbie] Site for testing JVM

2005-04-05 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 05 April 2005 4:42 pm, Paul Smith wrote: Dear All Is there some site for testing whether one's installed Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is working fine? www.java.com -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] The clipboard and the command line.

2005-03-30 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 30 March 2005 4:40 pm, James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I want to manipulate the clipboard from a script. Where is the clipboard (Klipper) stuff? I guess it runs without having an icon in the toolbox now. I was able to find Klipper on the Kmenu under Utilities/More

Re: [newbie] questions about reinstall

2005-03-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 00:58, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Maybe I should also ask: recommended partitions? Suppose it needs a new thread. It all depends on what you are doing. For me: / gets 6 Gb 35% free /home gets 13 Gb 94% free /swap gets 500 Mb and it never fills up. I use a

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 07:36, Jason Oakley wrote: This all makes it look like the system is totally ready for the mouse: Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: usbcore: registered new driver hiddev Mar 28 16:27:54 starbug kernel: input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Macally Peripherals  Evoluent Optical

Re: [newbie] USB Mouse problem

2005-03-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 28 March 2005 03:10, Jason Oakley wrote: dmesg says: mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usbcore: registered new driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver usbcore: registered new driver usbmouse drivers/usb/input/usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot

Re: [newbie] [HAB] Should I upgrade?

2005-03-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 March 2005 19:36, OOzy Pal wrote: Dears I am using Athlon 1.3 GHz and I would like to upgrade to Celeron 2.4 GHz. Is it worth it. I mean will I see a difference. Someone said the the 1.3 will perform better with Linux do to the Cache. Please help. Yeah, I would move to a

Re: [newbie] mp3s to wav/cd burning

2005-03-21 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 18 March 2005 19:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What do people use for making music cds from mp3s? I have an old italian cd burning software on my old NT machine that happily does this automatically, is there something similar avaialable? Is K3B too easy to use for you guys?

Re: [newbie] urpmi --fuzzy downloads without asking!

2005-03-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:25 pm, JR wrote: when I do urpmi --fuzzy package, it sometimes downloads the package anyway, without giving me a choice. Am I misunderstanding this switch? I expected to be asked regardless how many similar packages there were (even if there was only one) If there is

Re: [newbie] workgroup

2005-03-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 06 March 2005 9:22 am, Michel Leunen wrote: I've shook up my little network at home and changed the workgroup name my machine belongs to. But I can't find in the mcc where to change this name in my mandrake. You don't Linux does not use workgroups. I assume that you are running Samba

Re: [newbie] floppy error

2005-03-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 06 March 2005 3:42 pm, Chris wrote: Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find ext2 filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: FAT: invalid media value (0xf6) Mar 6 17:35:17 cpollock kernel: VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev fd0. Mar 6 17:35:17

Re: [newbie] Antivirus for 10.1

2005-03-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 8:58 pm, Dennis wrote: Where can I download a free antivirus software for MandrakeLinux 10.1? I have found that all virus emails are getting trapped with spamassassin/razor/pyzor working for me. Its like living in a spam free, virus free world. Rob -- Linux User

Re: [newbie] bison

2005-03-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 2:54 pm, Mohammed Badran wrote: On Wednesday 02 March 2005 5:05 am, Dennis wrote: Is anyone here encountered the message when installing bison Some package requested cannot be installed bison-2.0.1mdki586 (due to unsatisfied m4) do you agree? you can get bison

Re: [newbie] RSS feeds

2005-03-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 27 February 2005 10:22 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: I've been googling and looking at kmail info to see how to add RSS feed. I'm obviously looking in wrong place - can anyone direct me thanks Rosemary The only one I have found for Linux is Liferea, and it works well. rob --

Re: [newbie] bison

2005-03-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 7:05 pm, Dennis wrote: Is anyone here encountered the message when installing bison Some package requested cannot be installed bison-2.0.1mdki586 (due to unsatisfied m4) do you agree? What package is needed when installing bison? That is due to a file such as m4

Re: [newbie] MP3 repair utility, anyone?

2005-02-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 27 February 2005 1:49 pm, Glenn wrote: Does anybody know of a quick and easy MP3 repair utility, please? I've got a set of MP3s that are showing the wrong bit rate (showing the minimum bit rate of a VBR file, that being 32), and is showing total lengths in the range of about 18-25

Re: [newbie] SpamAssassin startup

2005-02-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 26 February 2005 5:29 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Hmm, I'm still running v9.2 here so some things may be different, and if they are, I apologise for wasting the bandwith but... here...if I use spamd it takes a lot longer to d/l my e-mail. If I use spamc on the other hand, all is

Re: [newbie] linux books

2005-02-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Linux Etudes is also good but very basic For very beginners there's Linux For Non-Geeks by Rickford Grant. It's based off of Fedora, but much of the information can be gained from it. It's written in a very informal style. For a more in depth, but not too in depth, I liked Linux

Re: [newbie] logging off

2005-02-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:34 am, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: This just an idle question really ... Over the years people have told me how stable their linux set ups are, and that there is no need to log off, or shut down each day. How valid is this? In Windows I always used to shut

Re: [newbie] DVD-Rom suggestions?

2005-02-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 23 February 2005 12:08 am, Amy wrote: I was wondering if anyone can suggest an inexpensive, but decent enough quality, DVD drive I could purchase at a store local to California, specifically the San Francisco Bay Area, or failing that, a web site that is fairly well known and

Re: [newbie] MS warns of 'rootkits'

2005-02-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 6:39 pm, Chris wrote: Hm, if the authors of chkrootkit and rootkit hunter can come up with a windows version they'd give MS some competition. http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,99843,00.html Kinda looks like MS wants the world to embrace Longhorn,

Re: [newbie] Default Browser.

2005-02-17 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 17 February 2005 5:39 am, Lanman wrote: The only 'bug' is that Konqueror stays open after the request has been passed to Firefox. Is there a way to prevent this? If I open hyperlinks in any other program or from any other source (ie; from documents, Howto's or links embedded in

Re: [newbie] Task Manager

2005-02-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 8:48 pm, Trevor wrote: On February 8, 2005 10:03 pm, Fernando Arturo Gómez Flores wrote: As a old Windows user, I find really useful the Windows' Task Manager utility, where I can close applications, check resources, etc. I actually don't know if there is

Re: [newbie] RealPlayer

2005-02-05 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 05 February 2005 10:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to record realaudio streams? I tried using mplayer but either set it up incorrectly,or,because I use'tkpppoe' and an external modem, which uses ethernet, I wasn't able to connect. I don't know about a direct

Re: [newbie] Mandrake 10.1

2004-12-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 07 December 2004 10:13 am, Danesh Daroui wrote: No its Mandrake 10.1 Community, Is Mandrake 10.1 Official more stable ? Personally, I stopped running the community versions. I only upgrade to the Official ones. They seem to be more stable and functional. To me anyway. Ya'll can

Re: [newbie] Linux on the rise

2004-12-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
I found this article interesting and thought it would be good to share. http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~33~2577377,00.html This has to be the single most positive article I have ever read on Linux that was published in the regular press. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.

Re: [newbie] Kpilot Palm Tungsten T5

2004-12-05 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 05 December 2004 11:13 am, David Little wrote: Hi, Can't access my T5 with KPilot. Messages shows it's on /dev/ttyUSBn but KPilot can't link to it. When HotSync on the T5 times out or is cancelled, the next time the T5 attempts to connect it's on a different port. Anyone got

Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-04 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Rob, I am able to start KDE if I go to the first virtual console (Crl+Alt+F1) and type: startx -- :1. Can this help to be able to autolog on boot? No, in order to start KDE that way, you first have to login. If you want KDE to log you right in, you need to start the Mandrake Control

Re: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-12-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo! I wouldn't concern yourself with this one. You are in single user mode, and $HOME is probably not set. Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general]

Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE

2004-11-30 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 7:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and everything went all right except that on boot, I cannot enter into KDE. The boot process reaches only the point of the blue screen with the Mandrake logo in the lower

Re: [newbie] Easy URPMI no longer takes

2004-11-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 28 November 2004 9:38 am, Jack wrote: For some strange reason, I can no longer update my media with easyurpmi. It seems to take when I run the necessary commands from root, even giving me messages that contrib has been added to media, etc. But when I go to the media manager, they

Re: [newbie] teach me

2004-11-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 November 2004 10:11 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it doesn't work like that i got an error msg, cannot open this file no plugins to handle it i also tried Xine and still related error There is no demuxer plugin available to handle mnt/cdrom/folder/moviefile.dat I just grabbed my

Re: [newbie] Webmin / Certificate??

2004-11-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 9:51 am, Paul wrote: Op Tue, 23 Nov 2004 18:45:22 +0100 schreef Wojciech Podgórni: It seems that your current certificate for localhost is different that the certificate memorised by your browser. It happens when you reinstall webmin. I think you should just delete

Re: [newbie] teach me

2004-11-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 22 November 2004 9:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats up, does anyone here used to watch VCD movie with TOTEM player directly from a source CD? i mean without saving it first in the hard drive. please teach me... I have done it with Xine. But I don't use totem or any others.

Re: [newbie] Faster mirrors?

2004-11-10 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 10 November 2004 10:13 pm, Eric Scott wrote: I'm quite unimpressed with the speed I'm getting from the mirrors for Mandrake 10.0 Official via FTP. Anybody know of a particularly good mirror? Or a bittorrent/jigbo download like there is for Debian? I tried to download 10 earlier

Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-11-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 07 November 2004 1:59 am, ali tig wrote: dear rob, i solved the problem. it result from my LG Flatron Monitor. when the installation, i take out the Monitor's cable, and then press the enter, after that i put on the cable to the machine againe. then the problem solved. now i'm

Re: [newbie] HELP...HELP...

2004-10-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 31 October 2004 12:02 am, ali tig wrote: dear carroll, my system is below. Asus K8V deluxe motherboard AMD 64 processor ATI Rodeon 9800 pro 1 GB ram 2*120 GB SATA harddisk(one of them for windows xp pro) The other thing that we need to see is what happens at boot to stop X from

Re: [newbie] Digital camera kills MDK 10.1

2004-10-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 12:13 pm, Kaj Haulrich wrote: H.J. - Now I dared to connect my camera, but with the usual result : my system went completely bezerk. Here I the output from /var/log/messages : Oct 26 21:05:45 0x50c63c55 kernel: usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using address 2

Re: [newbie] Need some help with updating.

2004-10-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 26 October 2004 6:35 pm, Michael Theel wrote: I am running Mandrake Community 10 and I'm having a problem when I try to do updates from the Mandrake Control Center. No matter with mirror I goto it says that the hdlist has failed to download. Why is this? Many sites are pretty flakey

Re: [newbie] HELP - Absolutely cannot update

2004-10-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
I will second Margot's words, but also add that another problem can be timeouts from the server you are connecting to. I always connect to the server with Konqeror before I add it to my sources, and I avoid .edu sites as they seem to shut down sites on the weekends. And I also use the lists at

Re: [newbie] 10.1 updates loses Kontact Kmail

2004-10-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 24 October 2004 7:09 pm, Dennis Myers wrote: I managed an update from a couple of differnt mirrors and both times lost kontact and kmail, but a slocate and trying urpmi shows that those packages are there. Suggestions for making contact with Kontact? I am using Thunderbird for this

Re: [newbie] Updates

2004-10-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 19 October 2004 1:40 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: Updated rpms for Mdk 10.0 Thank you good sir, I was jonesin' for the spamassassin rpms. Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [newbie] OT Apologys

2004-09-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 22 September 2004 9:22 pm, aron Smith wrote: Hate to bring it up but i have another system dual booting Mandrake 10.0 and windows 2000 the display 180 X 1024 in linux is great (jetway 17 LC monitor) the best resolution I can get in Win$ux is 800 X600 is there a Generaic driver out

Re: [newbie] Postcard

2004-08-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 31 August 2004 2:57 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Best wishes, your friend. Ok, so, fess up, who clicked the .pif? Time for the truth to be told, and time to run Mdk full time, the easy way is to login in a root. go to your windows partition and fire off, rm -Rf *. That is a

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-30 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It

Re: [newbie] A little OT - iRiver iHP-140

2004-08-30 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 30 August 2004 3:56 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Has anyone tried one of these hard drive players with Mandrake? The ogg support and capacity makes it look good, but I wouldn't want to have to boot doze to load it! One of the things about ogg players is that there aren't any car players

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 8:03 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]$ sensors Can't access procfs/sysfs file Unable to find i2c bus information; For 2.6 kernels, make sure you have mounted sysfs and done 'modprobe i2c_sensor'! For older kernels, make sure you have done 'modprobe

Re: [newbie] i2c pooblems w/lm_sensors.

2004-08-23 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 23 August 2004 2:55 am, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I installed lm_sensors-2.8.5.tar.gz and everything went ok (no errors). But when I run sensors-detect the following happens: [EMAIL PROTECTED] hoyt]# sensors-detect No i2c device files found. Use prog/mkdev/mkdev.sh to create them. I dont

Re: [newbie] Tip on urpmi.

2004-08-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 22 August 2004 2:03 pm, Hoyt Bailey wrote: I just completed installing everything I thought I might like using drakeinstall. Approx 4 times the system failed to complete installation due to various reasons which I could do nothing about. I.E. working in the w's a gimp package is

Re: [newbie] .Man Page Help!

2004-08-15 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:48 pm, Amy wrote: Okay, I'm still getting a hang of what I'm doing here, but I seem to be doing well enough that I'm mostly asking my friend/tech support stupid questions which he says can be pretty much all answered by reading the man pages. However, I absolutely

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin(offtopic)

2004-08-11 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:28 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: My #kmail --version Qt: 3.1.2 KDE: 3.1.3 KMail: 1.5.3 With 9.2. #/~/Mail directory isn't hidden. For what reason would the developers hide it? So that we don't have to look at it every time we look into our home directory? --

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 August 2004 9:33 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live in a hidden directory. The rest of what you advised is

Re: [newbie] Teaching Spamassassin

2004-08-09 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 10 August 2004 10:45 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 10 August 2004 12:33 am, Charlie Mahan wrote: I beg to differ. The Mail directory for K-Mail since (I believe) 3.1 *is* a hidden directory, while the sub-directories in it are not. No point hiding those is there, they live

Re: [newbie] wallpaper: pipes

2004-08-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:58 am, Marques wrote: Some time ago a thread about pipes gave me this idea. http://planeta.terra.com.br/arte/cyb/pipingthrough.png Lovely. Just a little separation from the horizontal lines, and the bottom lines of the letters would make it spiffier in my opinion.

Re: [newbie] Crashing Kmail

2004-08-08 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 08 August 2004 3:44 pm, Thereidos wrote: Maybe someone here could explain to me why Kmail started to act so strangely crushing after clicking on any post (something wrong with the date). Here's what running in a terminal showed up: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thereidos]$ kmail kdecore

Re: [newbie] MP3 to WAV in K3b?

2004-08-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Personally I find k3b rock solid. Yikes, I have had bad system takedowns with K3B running in AUTO disk write mode, rather than TAO or DAO right after 10 Official came out. Now its right. Also if you want to go down real hard, run a 2.4 kernel, and upgrade to a 2.6 kernel. Reboot to the 2.6.

Re: [newbie] LAN problems ...

2004-07-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:02 pm, J Latham wrote: Hi All ... This past weekend I built my first computer ... A nervewracking experience for a newbie but I'm pleased to say nearly everything went smoothly (and was easier than expected - esp with Mandrake 10.0 - Took a few attempts to get

Re: [newbie] GPhoto is gone

2004-07-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:06 pm, Aron Smith wrote: I did my usual urpmi --auto-select -a updatedb update-menus exit all my Camera programs disappeared I stopped doing the --auto-select -a as weird stuff started happening to my machine. Hope you figure it out, but you will need to see

Re: Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before running your script? I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf? FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf? I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can figure out what you are asking.

Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:29 am, Stephen Kühn wrote: As per the subject, spamd is now consuming at least 90% of total cpu time; there is only ONE instance of it running as well; I've modified the /etc/init.d/spamassassin service startup so that it is forced to only have one instance of it; why,

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 6:26 pm, SME Server Admin wrote: Well. I've installed Spam Assassin via the instructions, however since setting it up my inbound spam has dropped considerably :( Drat. No, really, I wanted to sort out the rules... Anyway, it's monday tomorrow and everything is busy in

Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-25 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 25 July 2004 8:05 pm, Chris wrote: On Sunday 25 July 2004 09:54 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: Now, I have a little script that runs spam-learn on my inbox, SpamPile and a few others daily. Mine runs from KAlarm. Now, get and setup my_rules_du_Jour and rules_du_jour. You can get

Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs

2004-06-15 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 11 June 2004 10:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Saturday, June 5, 2004, 11:45:12 PM, you wrote: RB On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Since it is over the net, could samba be doing this? Any other ideas to get the first few chrs to print? RB Humm.

Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs

2004-06-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 01 June 2004 11:41 pm, rikona wrote: Hello Rob, Since it is over the net, could samba be doing this? Any other ideas to get the first few chrs to print? Humm. Then it is probably Samba messing up or something like that. I have had problems with printing with Samba, but not this

Re: [newbie] Mozilla-Firefox does'nt work

2004-06-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 05 June 2004 11:13 am, robi wrote: Hello, I have: mdk10 off, P4 1.8,kernel: 2.6.3-13,kde3.2 I downloaded mozilla-firefox from contrib, and installed with urpmi but it does not start when I execute on terminal window, runing from menu is same. I just uploaded it my self, and

Re: [newbie] Virus scanner for linux (no I havenn't lost my mind)

2004-06-01 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:55 pm, Aidan Holmes wrote: Does anybody out there know of/use/recommend a virus scanning package for linux? I'm hoping to use one to scan clients hard drives without having to leave mandrake and boot into Winblows XP. Spamassasin has prebuilt filters that can be

Re: [newbie] motherboard advice.

2004-05-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 30 May 2004 10:53 pm, frankieh wrote: My question is: Will the chipset itself (nforce2) run ok on mandrake 9.2 and 10 ??? Yep. I have been using a NForce2 (Asus A7N8X-Deluxe) mobo since 9.0 and it works great. 9.1 needed to come out to use the onboard LAN, Soundcard, and hardware

Re: [newbie] kde stalls

2004-05-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 31 May 2004 06:28 am, Larry Clayton wrote: Using Mandrake 10 my KDE starts loading, giving me a 28, 57, 71, and 85 where it simply stalls. If I click the mouse, I get an empty screen (with the moon and stars) in the lower right hand corner. Tell us more, what do 28, 57, 71, and 85

Re: [newbie] fonts for md10

2004-05-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 31 May 2004 04:46 pm, John wrote: Hello I am having problems with the fonts looking faded. The message below is from the user log. I have a nvidia graphics card and installed the driver from nvidia. I have tried several differant combinations of resolution and monitor settings but I

Re: [newbie] Print in 10.0 missing chrs

2004-05-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 29 May 2004 05:11 pm, rikona wrote: Hello newbie, Printing in 10.0 to samba/Win2000 printer. The first 3-4 chrs of every line is missing, and happens with different margin settings. Printer works OK on other machines on the net, including a MD 9.1. How can I get the first few

Re: [newbie] Mandrake for Dummies?

2004-03-26 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 March 2004 8:08 pm, William Hatfield pondered and enlightened us with: Cool, thanks Mark. I have downloaded this software, the one for Linux with Java. http://www.childhooddiseases.org/dOL/download_instructions.html I try to install it and I get a Java error. I am running 9.2

Re: [newbie] 'URPMI auto-select' while logged in to KDE?

2004-03-12 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 06 March 2004 1:02 pm, Thinker pondered and enlightened us with: I am following the advice given by Derek Jennings for updating 10.0rc1 to full 10.0 release status. My question, before I 'urpmi --auto-select' is this.. I am currently logged in to KDE and I am sure several other

Re: [newbie] OT - iRiver Now Supports Ogg Vorbis

2004-02-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 28 February 2004 11:25 pm, Glenn monotonically droned on: Anne; Just saw this on the Iriver site. Possibly they'd have the 350 for less than you were able to find? I see that at www.pricewatch.com, that the best price for the 350 is $101. Now, what about syncing it under

Re: [newbie] HP Scanner 4400C

2004-02-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 12:59 am, Adrian Earnshaw monotonically droned on: Hi to all, I have just started to use Linux and have chosen Mandrake as my first real foray into the Linux world. I was wondering if anyone has come across any drivers for the HP Scanner 4400C as it is the only

Re: [newbie] Dvd Playback

2004-02-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 29 February 2004 3:04 pm, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: I have libdvdcss installed already...and I can never get Xine to work. But I'm going to try to remove it then install it once more. Sorry, Marc, Walt's right, Xine is the way to go, and since this isn't Widows land,

Re: [newbie] KDE 3.2 RPMs

2004-02-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:19 am, Marc Resnick monotonically droned on: On Sunday 22 February 2004 01:47 am, Paul Kaplan wrote: ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/people/bluehawk/kde32-92 On Saturday 21 February 2004 09:28 pm, Marc Resnick wrote: Does anyone know where I can get KDE 3.2 RPMs

Re: [newbie] bmp to jpg?

2004-02-22 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 22 February 2004 11:48 am, Lee Wiggers monotonically droned on: Happy Sunday Anyone know an easy (?) way to convert a batch of .bmp's to .jpg's? I have to do the same 20 pages of schematics every weekend for the next forever. I belive that Gimp can do a batch process for you to

Re: [newbie] No Outhouse for Linux?! Darn!

2004-02-21 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Can't imagine why anyone would want to port M$Office to linux - although many would hope that OOo could eventually use access database files. OTOH, when M$ protest loudly. Export all the tables to DB4 then import to the Linux database of your choice. Unfortunately queries are not SQL

Re: [newbie] Dependency hell

2004-02-15 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 09 February 2004 6:30 pm, Roland Hughes monotonically droned on: I am running Mandrake Community(Download) 9.2. I have kept it up to date using urpmi but now have hit a dependency brick wall. The following is what I get when trying to do a update: Some package requested cannot be

Re: [newbie] Suggestions for an email program that can be used from Linux and WIN 2000

2004-02-02 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 02 February 2004 2:01 pm, Steve Kaufman droned on: Since I am still so new to this linux environment and have not even gotten past the very simplest of things I am still using my win2K system a lot. I would like to be able to read my email from either system especially this list, and

Re: [newbie] Resuming down load

2004-01-17 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 17 January 2004 12:51 pm, Dennis Myers droned on: I have found konqueror will resume also, assuming the server allows resume. HTH Konqueror will resume is Kget is installed. If kget is a front end for wget. And they are all part of a basic Mandrake KDE installation. And wget is

Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-07 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 06 January 2004 9:53 pm, Todd Slater droned on: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:35:49PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:58 am, Todd Slater droned on: Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts

Re: [newbie] realplayer and amazon.com

2004-01-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:58 am, Todd Slater droned on: Every time I try to listen to song samples on amazon.com using realplayer (both 8 and realone), it aborts with just the message aborted. I'm copying the link location from the browser and trying to open it with File Open Location in

Re: [newbie]

2004-01-06 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 04 January 2004 5:09 pm, José Carlos Cortizo Pérez droned on: Hi: I have a dual opteron 246 system with 4G of ram recognized by the Bios (4096M). But when executing cat /proc/meminfo, i see the system says there is a memTotal of 3073268. It seems one giga is not recognized by the

Re: [newbie] Help! Total Newbie on ppc

2004-01-03 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 02 January 2004 6:22 pm, Josh Peters droned on: Hi, I'm trying to install 9.1 on a bw g3 ppc, original, 350 processor. So far I have been unable to even get a burned copy of mandrake or yellow dog to even boot. I am burning the iso correctly, mounting the disk, etc. Tried booting

Re: [newbie] Samba inconsistencies

2003-12-31 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 10:28 am, David droned on: I have some craziness going on with my Samba. Samba seems to be set correctly. My XP pro box can connect with no problems, but my XP home box will not. Whenever I attempt to add/connect to a Samba share with the XP home machine, I

Re: [newbie] Userfriendly!

2003-12-29 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Monday 29 December 2003 6:12 am, Ronald J. Hall droned on: On Sunday 28 December 2003 03:49 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote: - If you don't know what's up, check out the IBM Prodigy Ad. Linux folks can - read it by downloading it from http://www.bkw.org/~brian/misc/, grab the - Prodigy file

Re: [newbie] new mouse

2003-12-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 27 December 2003 10:20 pm, Greg droned on: Hey Everyone I hope everyone had a good Christmas I have a G/E wireless optical mouse ( yes I got it for Christmas ) I have not found any info on getting it to work with Linux So before I give up I figured if any one can help me get

Re: [newbie] Userfriendly!

2003-12-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 28 December 2003 2:42 am, Ronald J. Hall droned on: You simply must see it today - coolness incorporated! :-) http://www.userfriendly.org Personally, I thought this series was better- http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20031217 There are 4 or 5 days of panels. If you don't

Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz

2003-12-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely nothing. Just black screen. It doesn't even start loading program into memory. I had a heck of a time getting Mdk 9.2 onto

Re: [newbie] Install mandrake 9.2 on AMD k6-2 350MHz

2003-12-28 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Sunday 28 December 2003 1:23 pm, Lyvim Xaphir droned on: On Sun, 2003-12-28 at 15:56, Rob Blomquist wrote: On Sunday 28 December 2003 9:46 am, Morten Andersen droned on: At 17:02 28-12-2003, you wrote: try linux acpi=ht mem=120M mem=nopentium noapic That results in absolutely

Re: [newbie] Installation path of Mozilla.

2003-12-27 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Friday 26 December 2003 10:56 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Hi, tried the command. It stated to enter a valid installation path. Do you know where else the installation path could be? Try the command which mozilla on your machine. If its in your path, it will tell you where it is. If its

Re: [newbie]

2003-12-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Tuesday 23 December 2003 10:22 pm, Steven Nelson droned on: Am new to Linux. Worked with Linux for about 5 months. I've studied computers for a while. Can understand computers pretty good. Need help configuring Linux though. Will somebody assist me with installing and configuring Linux?

Re: [newbie] A seasonal blast from the past

2003-12-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Absolutely lovely! I have not seen this before, but it is beautiful! Rob On Wednesday 24 December 2003 6:56 am, Richard Urwin droned on: From the SunOS4.1 cookie file: better !pout !cry better watchout lpr why santa claus north pole town cat /etc/passwd list ncheck list ncheck list

Re: [newbie] cd-rom

2003-12-24 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Chage /dev/scd0 to /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd Anne Hi Changed file and saved according to earlier instuctions. Tried to mount cdrom and got the message can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. Thanks john John, did you say you were running 9.1? I've never

Re: [newbie] Mozilla Flash problem

2003-12-21 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Saturday 20 December 2003 8:55 pm, Brian Parish wrote: Two 9.2 boxes. Both running Mozilla as included in the distro. Both have the flash files in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4/plugins On one, help about plugins shows flash and it works. On the other help about plugins shows no flash and of

Re: [newbie] Flash player in Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-20 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
Excellent! I am glad to have helped you out! On Saturday 20 December 2003 12:55 am, you wrote: It functioned Obliged for the aid! Rob Blomquist wrote: On Friday 19 December 2003 8:04 am, you wrote: which the package of installation of pluguim of the flash that you are using? You

Re: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install?

2003-12-19 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
From: Lance Benton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2003/12/19 Fri PM 06:33:37 CST To: Mandrake Linux Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] nvidia nforce2 drivers - how to install? I'm starting this over as the last attempt to post failed miserably. Distro: Mandrake 9.2 Download Edition -

Re: [newbie] Flash player in Mandrake 9.2

2003-12-18 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 18 December 2003 6:42 pm, jimdawson wrote: Has anyone succeeded in getting Macromedia Flash player to run under Mandrake 9.2? I am trying to install the 'install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz' file I downloaded from the Macromedia website. I've tried both system (root) and regular

Re: [newbie] When will the persecution of MS *end*?!

2003-12-18 Per discussione Rob Blomquist
On Thursday 18 December 2003 5:31 pm, JoeHill wrote: Microsoft Corp. was hit Thursday with yet another antitrust lawsuit, this one accusing the software giant of illegally monopolizing the growing field of digital music and video. RealNetworks Inc. said Microsoft illegally tied its Windows

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