[newbie] Evolution 1.4 crapped out

2004-07-06 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I was reading my email and I tried to open another program to check something and was unable to. So I killed evolution and then was able to open other programs, but when I tried to start evolution agian the following appeared: Cannot activate component

Re: [newbie] hdwr detection fails on boot and harddrake locks up on eth? auto detection.

2004-01-03 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
, Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, snippity snip snip Not with eth0, but harddrake no longer seems to be able to find/restore my sda1. This on a re-install of 9.1 after the messed up XFree86 upgrade. It may be just a coincidence, but I haven't found a way round it yet. Anne

Re: [newbie] hdwr detection fails on boot and harddrake locks up on eth? auto detection.

2004-01-03 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 10:58, Dennis Myers wrote: Bigger snippety snip Terry I believe that the XFree86 patches were very poorly thought out, I do not have some of the problems described but now my xserver will reboot the system or dump me out of a game after it has run for a while. I am

Re: [newbie] hdwr detection fails on boot and harddrake locks up on eth? auto detection.

2004-01-03 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 14:36, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:24, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 10:58, Dennis Myers wrote: Anne, I use an older release. Should that matter. Just thought that there might be a similar problem. Terry

[newbie] hdwr detection fails on boot and harddrake locks up on eth? auto detection.

2004-01-02 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I recently installed a Linksys 10/100 Etherfast pci Ethernet card in my box running 9.1. After some problems not being able to get them working, and a failed upgrading of X everything appeared fragged so I reinstalled and updated. At this point I noticed in the boot messages that hardware

[newbie] XFce4 and gdm

2003-11-25 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Greetings, I recently installed rpms for xfce4 from the http://clevername.homeip.net. I followed the directions until I got to the part on letting which kdm not my dm know where to find xfce4. I use gdm. I tried using Fndsession and received no messages and no changes as far as I can tell. So I

[newbie] Setting up XFce4

2003-11-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Greetings, I posted a note several days ago, then I stopped receiving messages from the list. I checked the archives and didn't find anything past the 15th. I just resubed and will try again. If you responded to my message before my apologies. A while ago I downloaded and installed (1st four

Re: [newbie] Setting up XFce4

2003-11-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 22:23, Eric Huff wrote: This was just posted on the expert list, try fdnSessions and it should add the entry to gdm and or kdm. I have not tryed it so let us know how it works. typo: fndSession eric Eric, I found it on my system. I can't find a man page for

Re: [newbie] Setting up XFce4

2003-11-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 22:56, Eric Huff wrote: This was just posted on the expert list, try fdnSessions and it should add the entry to gdm and or kdm. I have not tryed it so let us know how it works. fndSession Eric, I found it on my system. I can't find a man page

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-23 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 09:45, Tom Brinkman wrote: Then I'm using only 860M of ram and not all 1024, right? Yes, but the performance will be better than using all 1024MB's. The memory management needed to address 1GB or more of ram imposes a performance hit. Tom, I added mem=860 to

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 16:54, Tom Brinkman wrote: snip Barefoot on a tile floor is my method ;) If your not familiar with bios ram timing options, set the ram to auto or bios defaults. Cas 3, precharge 3, banking disabled are the safest (but slowest) settings. Memtest gave me errors

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-22 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 18:36, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip snip snip But, I took some precautions. First I d/l'd a 1 GB ram capable kernel (2.4.22-18mdk-i686-up-4GB) an installed it. I'll check on my Mdk cds. Would I be able to urpmi it? You don't mention versions. 9.2 should

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long) now trimmed :)

2003-10-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Tom/List, I bought the memory according to a newer post to you sent (I can't find it :( ). Got the Two 512 MB sticks in the mail and stuck them both in (using proper static aviodance procedure) and tested. Memtest gave me errors in the five figure area. I shutdown and tested each stick

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-18 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Snip Tom, Thanks for all your help. I ordered two 512MB DIMMS. That should keep me for awhile. :) Terry On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:44, Tom Brinkman wrote: http://www.soyousa.com/products/proddesc.php?id=108 Board uses 184 pin DDR. FSB is 266, so it needs at least pc2100. So buy DDR

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-17 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:48, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Friday October 17 2003 02:00 pm, ed tharp wrote: Contacts are gold. Looked pretty clean to (me the uninitiated) :). Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Used my mini vac. Need to get a can of 'Air' though. bad idea,,,

[newbie] Not seeing my posts but..

2003-10-17 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I sent a couple of posts the past 2 to 3 days and I am not seeing my posts to the list but I am seeing the replies. Any idea? Tia, Terry -- Terence Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mandrake 9.1 - 2.4.21-0.13mdk | Gnome 2.0 | Evolution 1.4.4 | Opera 7.11 Soyo

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 10:31, Tom Brinkman wrote: Snip Snip Snip Terry First, remove the ram and clean the contacts. A pencil eraser is good for this. Rub lightly, if it's decent ram the contacts are gold. Blow out any dust from the mobo slots. Re-seat the ram and check again. Try

Re: [newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-16 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:52, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400 Terence J. Golightly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snippety Snip If its old RAM more failures will be coming your way. If its new stuff, take it back where you bought the box/sticks. Mike, Its over a year old

[newbie] Help with memtest and errors. (a little long)

2003-10-15 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Greetings, I posted last month message me thinks I got a virus. Well.. I'm almost positive that I don't have a virus. I am still having the locking up problem and I downloaded memtest ISO burned it to a CD and ran the standard tests. It locked up on test 5 with errors in the 5 figures range.

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-10-02 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 02:46, Sharrea Day wrote: On Wed, 01 Oct 2003 18:48, Raffaele Belardi wrote: I think e2fschk is a front end that invokes the correct fsck.* program. If you type man fsck.ext3 you are shown the e2fschk man page. On my MDK9.1 there is no fsck.reiserfs command, only

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-30 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 02:55, Raffaele Belardi wrote: Or bad disk.I've had two disks breaking up recently, behaviour is always _very_ strange. You could check partitions with # e2fschk -f -c /dev/hda? -f forces the check -c performs bad block scan (I've never done this, don't know how

[newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts was a rectangular section colored green with four greek letters shaped like Es (I can't

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:13, Mark Weaver wrote: Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, I just started my machine after leaving it off while away from home. I noticed that when I booted the machine, right over the third? column where the devices are listed with there associated interrupts

Re: [newbie] Me thinks I got a virus

2003-09-29 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:49, Glenn Wright wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 17:13, Mark Weaver wrote: snip Mark; I think he's referring to the series of steps in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/mdoc/ref/ts-system-freeze.html snip

Re: [newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer

2003-09-22 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 22:54, Charlie M. wrote: snip Charlie, Last question answered first. My public key is on the MIT keyserver Just input the number I tried to cut and paste a search on your key at the end of your message, but got a keyserver error message code not found. I don't think I

Re: [newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer

2003-09-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:13, Charlie M. wrote: snip - From the main plf page: http://plf.zarb.org/ 1.3) Keys You can download the GPG keys of the project. Remember you have to import them into your root's keyring, as RPM installation is done under this identity. PLF trick of the

[newbie] problem installing mplayer

2003-09-20 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List members, I am trying to install mplayer and the site knight.zarb.org has the wrong version of the file on its ftp server. MCC and urpmi do not find the file: real-codecs-1.1-1plf.i586.rpm instead it has the file: real-codecs-1.2-1plf.i586.rpm and the install fails. I am wondering if

Re: [newbie] Re: problem installing mplayer

2003-09-20 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:20, Björn Lundin wrote: Bjorn cut cut Do an ' urpmi.update -a' and try again. (it will force an update of your local repository) Yeah Thanks, I did just that and was able to get past the version problems. However, I now get some bad signature messages (public key

[newbie] LONG-Machine locking up solid altsysrqsresiub no help

2003-08-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Greetings list members, Recently, I have been having problems with my system, evolution and opera 7.11. It has caused me to recycle the machine several times causing corrupted files that couldn't be repaired by me. So, I saved my home directory and reinstalled the system according to a fellow

Re: [newbie] Help with rpmdrake not able to read source cds

2003-06-22 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 06:42, Derek Jennings wrote: Have you been doing your security updates? There is an updated urpmi available which I think addresses this sort if issue. Assuming you have an update source defined then urpmi urpmi (in a root terminal) did that got the update.. If

[newbie] Help with rpmdrake not able to read source cds

2003-06-21 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Greetings List, I just started having a problem with my cdrom not finding any files on my installation cds. I was getting listings before I started playing an audio cd. I wanted to install lm_sensors using rpmdrake. It requested that I place the Medium Installation CD2 (x86) (cdrom2) on device

RE: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole!

2003-06-20 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 10:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Aron Smith Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 11:58 PM To: Newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] Orrin Hatch: farging icehole! Big Snip. He's a RINO

Re: [newbie] Help with gnome default browser

2003-06-17 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:44, Stephen Kuhn wrote: snip Directly edit the ~/home/yournamehere/.gnome/Gnome file: [URL Handlers] default-show=opera %s info-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s man-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s ghelp-show=nautilus --no-desktop %s ...is how yours should be

Re: [newbie] help with undeliverable mail on localhost a little long.

2003-03-17 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 21:18, Terence J. Golightly wrote: List, Sorry about that last post too much of everything. I'm hoping now someone can help me fix what I think is a sendmail problem. Please readon. My system keeps dumping undeliverable system mail to a folder /var/spool/clientmqueue

[newbie] help with undeliverable mail on localhost a little long.

2003-03-09 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, My system keeps dumping undeliverable system mail to a folder /var/spool/clientmqueue. It eventually fills up my /var partition and brings my pc to a crawl. I was able to write a perl script to delete the 'lost' mail for now, but I would like to repair it permanently. I have sendmail

[newbie] Yeah Just a test

2002-09-30 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Ignore just testing. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] A small mouse problem.

2002-09-05 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List I just upgraded from mdk 8.1 to 8.2 kernel 2.4.18-6. I am using gnome 1.4.0.6. Every time I login my mouse reverts to right handed orientation and the background to blue. When changing the mouse settings back to left handed control the mouse config window displays left hand selected. When

[newbie] A small mouse problem.

2002-09-02 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List(s) I just upgraded from mdk 8.1 to 8.2 kernel 2.4.18-6. I am using gnome 1.4.0.6. Every time I login my mouse reverts to right handed orientation. I must go to settings | mouse to reapply left handed settings. I say reapply because when the mouse settings window appears, it shows left

[newbie] Help with home network selection

2002-08-19 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Hello List, I have two machines one is my workstation running 8.1 on an Athlon 2100 + 256mb of ram and two maxtor hard disks a 40gm and a 12gb. My other machine is a K6 300mhz box running 95 rel 2. I would like to netwok these two where sharing a network connection 'might' be possible and the

[newbie] xmms 1.2.6. problem with modifying visualization plugins

2002-07-10 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
I sent this message out on monday and I didn't see it posted. I apologize to the list for the bandwidth. List I am currently unable to configure my visualization plugins in xmms version 1.2.6. I get a stack constraint failed error. It happens when the window opens the error message appears

[newbie] xmms 1.2.6. problem with modifying visualization plugins

2002-07-08 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I am currently unable to configure my visualization plugins in xmms version 1.2.6. I get a stack constraint failed error. It happens when the window opens the error message appears and I am unable to access any part of the window except the close window button at the top of the window.

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-03 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 18:28, Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 05:25 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 10:10, tom brinkman wrote: On Sunday 30 June 2002 03:37 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: sensors -s gives a no sensors found message. I looked at the sensors.conf

Re: [newbie] Ok you got me started

2002-07-02 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:55, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 01 July 2002 04:25 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: scan ISA bus yes bunch of error messages for chips that arn't on my board. That's normal Summary of probes just done: press enter to continue. didn't print anything

[newbie] Help with a specialized fan.

2002-06-26 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
List, I just bought a Hardcano 3 Combo hd cooler cpu fan controller and temp sensor. It has a digital display for the temp a fan and a switch for 3 speed settings. Has anybody set something like this up? I have a Soyo K7VXA-2BA2 MoBo running an XP 2000 + chip. Most of the setup is from there

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-24 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some require 2 jumper settings on the mobo. Terry's got his XP runnin at 12.5x100, rather than 12.5x133 -- Tom

Re: [newbie] Bios burning software question.

2002-06-24 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Tom, On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 20:25, tom brinkman wrote: On Monday 24 June 2002 03:57 pm, Terence J. Golightly wrote: On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 10:37, tom brinkman wrote: I suspect he's got the FSB set to 100 rather than 133. On some Soyo motherboards this can be set in bios, some

Re: [newbie] off topic

2000-04-22 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, Oder Santos wrote: I don't know if this is a off topic question but I have no idea where can I find alt.os.linuxmandrake in a public news server. Does anyone have any information? Thanks in advance. Oder. Oder, try alt.os.linux.mandrake terry --

[newbie] kppp and modem busy message

2000-04-13 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Hello, This is a repost of a message to the list that went unreplied to, so please excuse any faux pauxs that I may have commited. I have a problem which I hope somebody else has encountered and remedied. I am presently using Mandrake 6.0 with kernel 2.2.13. My modem is a U.S. Robotics 56k

[newbie] kppp and modem busy message

2000-04-08 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
Dear list, Long time follower, first time poster. Help. I have a problem which has been covered before I believe back in 12/99. I get the error message that my kernel doesn't have ppp support built and to contact the system administrator . I click the ok button and the CONNECT window comes

[newbie] Just a test

2000-04-01 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
test, test, test

Re: [newbie] KDE broken

1999-09-26 Per discussione Terence J. Golightly
James Richards wrote: Hello, I recently installed Mandrake-Linux 6.0. It installed fine and I was [foolishly] playing with the themes for KDE running as root [wasn't thinking on that one]. I was switching through themes when suddenly my desktop blanked out and locked. I was able to